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CPR In Brief - September 29, 2026 (opens the original)
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Each week, The Cook Political Report - Substack Edition offers this free newsletter, which features the latest headlines for paid content on CPR’s flagship platform, the latest Trump PollTracker, and links to freely accessible featured content. Readers can subscribe to CPR In Brief via Substack or, for full analysis and benefits, via The Cook Political Report.Subscribe nowNEW ANALYSISThe Five Tra
🎧 How Many Seats Will Dems Pick Up? Here's Our Thinking for the House and Senate Five Weeks Out. (opens the original)
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On Editors Roundtable this week: it is after Labor Day. We are in the thick of it with five weeks to go until Election Day. And in the past week, we released two big stories on the House and Senate. … Read more
🎧 How C-SPAN's Coverage of Downballot Races Is Helping Fill Local News Gaps (opens the original)
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If there’s any television network out there that intentionally tries to buck the trends of modern day media consumption, it’s C-SPAN. With its live unedited broadcast of political events and congressional hearings and call-in shows featuring the full range of the country’s political views, C-SPAN has held firm to its mission of providing unfiltered access to political decision makers since it first streamed from the U.S. Capitol in 1979.But that doesn’t mean they don’t innovate. Leading that eff
Fifteen House Ratings Shift Toward Democrats (opens the original)
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The political environment has solidified over the past few months, and new polling and ad spending warrants ratings changes in 15 races, all in Democrats’ favor. After these ratings changes, Democrats are favored in 208 races (those rated Solid, Likely, and Lean Democrat) and Republicans are favored in 205 races.The Toss Up category now contains 17 Republican seats and five Democratic seats. Typically, in midterm cycles the party out of power wins the majority of Toss Up
Three Senate Races Move Towards Democrats (opens the original)
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As the political environment worsens for the GOP, we are moving three races one step towards Democrats, although none change our core seven Toss Up races.Georgia moves from Lean Democrat to Likely DemocratKansas moves from Likely Republican to Lean RepublicanSouth Carolina moves from Solid Republican to Likely Republican<a href="https://e.customeriomail.com/e/c/eyJlbWFpbF9pZCI6ImRnU1F6Z2dEQU5HQkJkQ0JCUUdnemV3MVFQaTdwVGdOeWdXVGMxUT0iLCJocmVmIjoi
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