THE MORNING AFTER THE MIDTERMS, journalists are working through the complicated picture that emerged from yesterday’s elections. With Democrats gaining in some states and Republicans in others, the results defied easy generalization. As Cook Political Report National Editor and sometime WNYC host Amy Walter tweeted, the midterms have turned out to be a “choose your own narrative” election.
Pollsters, by contrast, are breathing a big sigh of relief that they aren’t the story this morning. As forecast, Democrats took the House and Republicans held the Senate, with no overall, 2016-style election-night surprise. Nor did any single high-profile race go in a wildly unexpected direction. It was, CNN data whizz Harry Enten said, “a very good night for polling.” CONT.
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review