Political Wire
US political news aggregator and blog founded by Taegan Goddard in 1999.
Political Wire, a US political news aggregator founded in 1999, relayed Sabato's Crystal Ball's 14 October 2026 update rating five Republican-held Senate seats Toss Up, a call that Larry Sabato's forecasters made and Political Wire summarised.
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Political Wire is a US political news aggregator. It collects race ratings, polls and campaign news from other outlets and relays them in short summaries.
Sabato's Crystal Ball published a 14 October 2026 update rating five Senate seats Toss Up, all held by Republicans, in Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Ohio and Texas. Political Wire's summary of that update is the cited account of the rating.
Taegan Goddard founded the site in 1999 and still owns and publishes it. Before that he was an adviser to Senator Donald Riegle and Governor Lowell Weicker. A content partnership with Congressional Quarterly ran from 2006 to 2013.
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