How Election Week 2022 Went Down

That’s interesting about the Kentucky results, Amelia. I wrote about this in August, but a lot of red-state voters have been more progressive on ballot measures than in their choice of candidates in recent elections. There are a lot of reasons for this, but it’s partly that voting for, say, a Republican candidate while also voting to protect voting rights might just mean that voters who are conservative on most issues can have their say on abortion while also getting the candidates they want on almost everything else.

In Ohio’s 13th District, with 9 percent of the expected vote reporting, Democrat Emilia Sykes has only a narrow lead over Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, 58 percent to 42 percent. Given those same caveats (early and absentee ballots represent much of the first wave of votes), this doesn’t bode well for Sykes.

Fivey’s been tweeting about some interesting issue polls today. In case you aren’t already following FiveyFox on Twitter, I’ll occasionally share some of the tweets here. Here’s what Fivey had to say about a recent poll about young likely voters.