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🗞️ Story file #1788

Democrat Kreiss-Tomkins wins Alaska governor’s race, becoming first since 1998

Nov 12, 7 PM ET to Nov 14, 6 PM ET · 3 outlets not rated for lean

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

📰 read it at: HuffPostThe Daily KosThe GuardianAPCBS NewsLos Angeles TimesNPRNew York TimesPBS NewsHourPoliticoThe IndependentThe Washington PostChicago TribuneNewsweekReutersScripps NewsThe HillThe Epoch TimesWashington ExaminerFox NewsIJRNew York PostNewsmaxOANThe Gateway PunditCrooks and LiarsThe 19thThe Washington Sun

  1. Nov 12, 4 PM ET

    first on a front page: The 19th

  2. Nov 12, 7 PM ET

    the news that day, Newsmax:

    “Dem Cindy Holscher Elected Kansas' Next Governor”

  3. Nov 12, 8 PM ET

    first on the radio: NPR News Now

  4. Nov 12, 10 PM ET

    first on TV: MSNOW

  5. Nov 13, 6 AM ET

    seen retold online by 10 people

  6. Nov 14, 9 AM ET

    the news that day, CBS News:

    “Alaska elects first Democratic governor since 1998”

  7. Nov 14, 3 PM ET

    peak: on 24 front pages at once

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

📡 Wire copy

5 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

CBS News, HuffPost, Los Angeles Times, PBS NewsHour, The Washington Sun

📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

▸ ✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Fox News (2 wordings): “Democrat Cindy Holscher wins Kansas governor's race, extending party's hold on governor's mansion” → “Democrat flips Alaska governor's mansion after Trump-backed GOP infighting”
  • HuffPost (4 wordings): “Dems Win Another Governorship – This Time In Kansas” → “Democrat Elected Governor Of Alaska For First Time In Nearly 30 Years”
  • NPR (2 wordings): “Cindy Holscher wins in Kansas, holding governor's office for Democrats” → “Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins race for Alaska governor, replaces a Republican”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Dem Cindy Holscher elected as Kansas’ next governor in latest blue wave midterms win” → “Democrat elected governor of Alaska for first time since 1998”
  • New York Times (2 wordings): “Holscher Wins Kansas Governor Race, Retaining Seat for Democrats” → “A Democrat Wins the Alaska Governor’s Race for the First Time Since 1998”
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Dem Cindy Holscher Elected Kansas' Next Governor” → “Holscher Is Next Kan. Gov, Adding to Dem Gains”
  • PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “Cindy Holscher wins election for Kansas governor, extending Democrats' wave of victories” → “Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins becomes first Democrat since 1998 elected governor in Alaska”
  • Reuters (2 wordings): “Democrat Holscher wins Kansas governor's race amid data center backlash” → “Alaska elects first Democratic governor since 1998, US media project”
  • The Hill (2 wordings): “Cindy Holscher wins Kansas governor’s mansion, keeping it in Democrats’ hands” → “Democrat flips Alaska governor’s office”
  • The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins Alaska governor’s race” → “Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins Alaska governor’s race - The Washington Post”
📰 Every outlet's headline 28left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. ⚖️ BBC News 3 min
  2. 🐘 Fox News 2 min
  3. 🫏 MSNOW 28 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

  1. 🫏 NPR News Now 7× · best #2
  2. 🫏 ABC News Update 3× · best #4

🧶 Retelling

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🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧶 Retold online

Democrat Cindy Holscher has won the race to become the Governor of Kansas.
🧶 told by 10 Nov 13

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 266 likes, 52 reposts

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 168 likes, 33 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

Cindy HolscherKansas

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

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A story of its own so far: no saga yet.