DDHQ friend Chris Cillizza, who runs So What on Substack, was joined by Chief Elections Analyst Geoffrey Skelley and Data Scientist Maddisen Murrell to talk about Decision Desk HQ’s 2026 election ...

With the midterms rapidly approaching, this episode of the Decision Desk HQ podcast features not one, but two, guests! In the first part, Decision Desk HQ Chief Elections Analyst ...

Opening Bell: Must-read items about elections and politics. The Frontrunner: We continue our introduction to Decision Desk HQ’s 2026 election forecast by delving into the contest for the U.S. Senate ...

In Decision Desk HQ’s 2026 forecast, Peltola has just over a 3 in 5 shot of defeating Sullivan, making Alaska the Democrats’ second-most likely flip in the forecast. That she’s competitive isn’t a ...

Midterms mean gubernatorial races — 36 of them!

One 2026 election seems to keep grabbing all the headlines: Maine’s U.S. Senate race. There, Democrat Graham Platner keeps making news, and usually for the wrong reasons. Reports recently surfaced ...

Primary season resumed with a bang on Tuesday. The key swing state of Arizona held its nomination contests for a number of big races, including governor and a battleground U.S. House seat in the 1st ...

Just two years after voting for President Trump by nearly 14 percentage points, Texas has become an unexpected frontline swing state. The Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken ...

Opening Bell: Must-read items about elections and politics. As GOP-led states in the South look to redistrict their congressional maps, Axios reports that Democrats are exploring how to counter ...

Every time a poll gets published, Decision Desk HQ adds it to our database. For the elections with sufficient polling, we publish polling averages in Votes that keep you up to date on how a contest is ...

ke with Patrick Ruffini, a founding partner at the Republican firm Echelon Insights. Patrick recently published an analysis on his Substack, The Intersection, that found Senate polls in recent cycles ...

Opening Bell: Must-read items about elections and politics. Votes’s new national precinct map has a cool new feature: the Custom Popular Vote slider. The slider allows you to change the national ...