{"id":101411,"date":"2025-10-31T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/why-all-eyes-are-suddenly-on-this-years-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:56:49","slug":"why-all-eyes-are-suddenly-on-this-years-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/why-all-eyes-are-suddenly-on-this-years-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why All Eyes Are Suddenly On This Year&#8217;s Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s rare for all eyes to be on an off-year election. This year, however, several state elections have captured national attention \u2014 from California\u2019s Proposition 50 redistricting measure to governor\u2019s races in New Jersey and Virginia, and a closely watched Democratic Senate primary in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Marisa and Scott talk to Erin Covey, editor of Cook Political Report\u2019s coverage of U.S. House races. They discuss the key races to watch and what it means for the broader political landscape heading into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for\u00a0<a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/10\/30\/why-all-eyes-are-suddenly-on-this-years-elections\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare for all eyes to be on an off-year election. This year, however, several state elections have captured national attention \u2014 from California\u2019s Proposition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}