Programming note! Our final podcast before the election is today, Oct. 29, 2026. David and I will take all your questions about the midterms live at 2:00 PM Eastern. Please join us! Paying members can ...
Final early voting records from Texas, Georgia, and now North Carolina show Democrats benefiting from an “engagement gap” ...
While low-engagement voters favored Trump over Kamala Harris by 13 points in 2024, low-engagement likely voters now favor Democrats in congressional races by 2 points. That’s a 15-point swing toward ...
Welcome to the Strength In Numbers Election Day live blog! This page is your one-stop shop for all things data-driven commentary on Election Day 2026. A few links and reminders for you: First, my last ...
Latino voters more than doubled, from 1.5% of early voters to 3.4%, and voters under 30 went from 8% to 11%. And Republicans under 45 cast fewer early ballots than they did in 2022 — even as the total ...
As of writing, Democrats have won back their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate in a historic thumpin’ for the Republican Party. That Democrats have won both chambers is not a surprise — our ...
This post is part of The Data Lab, a dedicated section of Strength In Numbers for extra charts, general polling wonkery, and methods work that can be a little too nerdy for the normal editorial ...
Our new November Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading the 2026 U.S. House generic ballot, 47% to 42% for Republicans. In a survey experiment, when respondents are told ...
New here? Strength In Numbers is an independent, data-driven publication that analyzes U.S. politics and elections, often using original datasets we collect or fund ourselves. SIN is written primarily ...
A mailbag episode about Democrats’ huge early voting numbers, the almost-final polls in key Senate races, and everything else ...
Last week, The New York Times ran a great story about residents of a small Missouri town coming to grips with the consequences of Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy. The story focuses on the ...
Here’s a fun fact: According to economist Nicholas Bloom and coauthors, for every dollar the U.S. Federal Government spends collecting data at the national Bureau of Labor Statistics, it returns $25 ...