Midterm Elections 2018
Reporting, news analysis, commentary, polling, results from key races, and more
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Charlie Riedel / AP The Year of the Woman Still Leaves Women With Terrible Representation in Government
Female candidates were some of the biggest winners in the 2018 midterms, but women have a long way to go before their success becomes unremarkable for how normal it is.
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Sean Pavone / rawf8 / Shutterstock / The … The New Metropolitan Majority
If Democrats want to build a durable coalition, they will need to shift their approach, building ties between voters in cities and those in the suburbs that surround them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Oversight Is the Biggest Winner of the Midterm Elections
The Democratic victory in the House provides an opportunity to drain the swamp, after two years of willful Republican cover for dodgy behavior.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk
If the governor’s race had taken place in another country, the State Department would have questioned its legitimacy.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters America, Now More Divided Than (Almost) Ever
Democrats captured the House and the GOP kept the Senate. The results portend the challenges the parties—and President Trump—will have in 2020.
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David Ryder / Reuters Washington State Likely Rejects a Historic Carbon Tax
If climate policy can’t win in the Evergreen State, can it win anywhere?
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Fate of Trumpism Rests on the TIGRs
Trump won office by insisting he was a different kind of Republican. But Tuesday’s elections provided a warning—he needs to win back the voters who made him president.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Harsh Truth Exposed by the Midterm Elections
It’s not Trump who is running uphill against American tradition, it’s the people who are trying—with mixed success—to stop him.
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Alex Wong / Getty How Senate Republicans Will Use Their New Power
President Trump could deepen his imprint on the federal judiciary with the help of an even larger GOP majority.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The Democrats Are Back, and Ready to Take On Trump
The party could roll to a 20-seat House majority after picking up dozens of seats in cities, suburbs, and even rural areas.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Beto O’Rourke’s National Celebrity Was His Undoing
“He was a cause, not a candidate.”
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Caitlin Ochs / Reuters An Embarrassment of Glitches
A wealthy country should be able to conduct a national election with fewer problems than the United States experienced in the 2018 midterms.
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Jeffrey McWhorter / AP The Striking Way Trump Changed Election Night
After 2016’s twitching needles and seemingly voter-proof forecasts, media companies are doing the unthinkable: waiting on the election returns.
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Tupungato / Shutterstock / Thanh Do / The … Democrats Seize the House
The party is poised to take back control of the chamber—and begin making trouble for the president.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Early Signs of a Youth Wave
Young-adult turnout surged by 188 percent in early voting compared with 2014.
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Christopher Halloran / Orhan Cam / Shutterstock / … The Republican Senate Majority Is Growing
Conservatives defeated Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana—clinching a GOP edge for the next two years.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters I Still Don’t Know If My Vote Will Be Counted in Florida
I went to vote in Florida—and discovered that my name had been removed from the rolls over something I’d tweeted.
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Shutterstock The Voting-Sticker Thirst Trap Is Here
“It’s egotistical, but I’m aware it draws the most attention, so why not try to use that to get people out there voting?”
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NASA / RAMMB / CIRA Scattered Thunderstorms, With a Chance of Republicans
Even if Democrats win Tuesday’s midterm elections, research suggests that they’ll act more conservatively in Congress—and all because of the weather.
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Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty The United States of Optimism
Over the past year, people have become more and more satisfied with where the country is going.
