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News Articles: 2022 midterm elections

People look on during the Cherry Blossom Festival Veterans Day Parade Sunday in Macon, Ga. Georgia's Senate race, which could decide control of the Senate, might not be resolved for a month.

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  • Politics

Your election night guide, hour-by-hour

It all comes down to this. After months of campaigning, ups and down, Election Day is here. Here's what to watch, as the night unfolds.

November 08, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Signs indicate the location of an early voting polling site at Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

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  • Elections

Politicians need to mobilize Black male voters ahead of the midterms, experts say

Just like with any voting bloc, there's still a vast array of diverging opinions, ideologies and issues that are important among Black voters in races.

November 08, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
<strong>Left</strong>: Mike Erickson, a Republican candidate from Oregon, running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, appears in a photo provided October 11, 2022. <strong>Right:</strong> Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Lake Oswego, speaks at a PCUN rally to kick off a campaign for farmworker overtime on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore.

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  • Elections

A tight congressional race in Oregon could signal the breadth of the GOP's reach

The contest in Oregon's new 6th Congressional District, once a blue stronghold, was recently rated a "toss-up" amid GOP gains.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
A dog named Georgia waits for their owner outside a voting location on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. It was the last day for early voting in the state.

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  • Politics

Be patient: This election is probably going to go on a while

Election Day is Tuesday, but expect this election to go on a while. Close races, rules changes and a conspiratorial environment all may lead to delays.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro

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  • Politics

The new normal of election disinformation

Tech companies are showing people a little bit about misleading information so they're better equipped to recognize and resist it. And they've seen encouraging results — for now, anyway.

November 04, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
If Republicans take control of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California would be the likely next speaker.

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  • Politics

The bellwether districts to watch that could determine control of Congress

There are a handful of key races that could indicate how big (or small) a GOP wave is coming on election night and afterward.

November 04, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro and
  • Katherine Swartz
Republican congressman Lee Zeldin campaigns for governor outside Rikers Island jail in New York.

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  • National

Republicans blame Democrats for rising crime. Here's the complicated truth

As Republicans link higher crime to criminal justice reforms, Democrats are divided over how to defend their record. But there are too many social variables to isolate a single cause for higher crime.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
Among the findings in the latest NPR/PBS <em>NewsHour</em>/Marist poll is that Democrats are losing ground on which party voters want to control Congress and inflation being the top issue — with voters saying they trust Republicans more on the issue by 20 points.

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  • Politics

Key GOP groups are more fired up to vote in midterms than Democrats, NPR poll finds

The last NPR survey before all votes have to be cast shows inflation continues to be the top concern for voters, and Republicans are trusted more than Democrats on the issue by 20 points.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Photo of Arlene Hermida, Isabel Perez, Leonel Mera, and Will Feliciano

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  • Politics

Latino voters look beyond immigration, and hope candidates will, too

While immigration remains a threshold issue for many Latino voters, it is not the only thing they're focused on ahead of the midterms.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Pablo Valdivia
People walk into a polling location at the Elections and Voter Registration Office in Cumming, Ga.

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  • Elections

How Biden changed his tune on inflation as prices soared and the midterms loomed

At first, the White House said inflation would be a temporary issue. But it quickly became the top economic priority — and major source of midterm political pain — for President Biden.

October 29, 2022
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Voting in the 2022 midterm elections ends on Tuesday, Nov. 8. What questions are you thinking about the most?

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  • Elections

Got election questions? NPR's Domenico Montanaro has answers

The final day of voting for the 2022 midterm elections is fast approaching. Tell us what questions are still looming large for you, and we'll answer as many as we can next week.

October 29, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Crime is a concern for many midterm voters across the country.

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  • National

Many midterm races focus on rising crime. Here's what the data does and doesn't show

Midterm voters are being inundated with political ads, and a lot of them are focused on crime. But a recent change in data collection paints an incomplete picture of the U.S. violent crime rate.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Matthew Grover (center) of NextGen America talks with young voters Kate Browning (left) and Jack Borg as they sign a pledge promising to vote near the Milwaukee Public Market on Saturday.

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  • Politics

What's on the minds of young voters in Milwaukee? A lot

Polls found that young people were among the least likely to vote this fall. But the end of Roe v. Wade has helped boost voter registration among them. Other issues are also important to young voters.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Karen Zamora,
  • Juana Summers,
  • and 1 more
Election signs in Cary, N.C., a suburb of Raleigh that is part of a new congressional district in the state — an open seat that's a competitive race.

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  • Elections

This North Carolina congressional district has a rare competitive midterm race

A Trump-endorsed Republican and a Democratic state senator are facing off in a congressional race that could help decide control of the House of Representatives.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
The city of Barberton, Ohio, recently shifted Republican after decades of Democratic leadership.

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  • National

Ohio and Pennsylvania voters aren't reading from their assigned scripts

Morning Edition spoke to more than 40 voters in two key districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania and found many aren't necessarily approaching issues as their parties would prefer. Here are four takeaways.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
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