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🗞️ Story file #45

Polls show Democrats gaining in key Senate races

Oct 3, 5 PM ET to Oct 4, 8 AM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 3, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost

📰 Spread

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Oct 3, 12 PM6 PMOct 46 AMNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 3, 8:38 AM ET: Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls FindDrudge ReportDrudge ReportDrudge Report, Oct 3, 1:00 PM ET: Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Dem, Polls Find...The HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 3, 2:00 PM ET: Democrats edge out, neck and neck with Republicans in 5 key Senate races: PollsYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 3, 4:00 PM ET: Democrats gain edge in tight Senate races in new pollHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 3, 5:00 PM ET: Multiple Red States Are Leaning Democrat In Senate Race: PollGoogle NewsGoogle NewsGoogle News, Oct 3, 5:00 PM ET: Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls Find - The New York TimesGoogle News, Oct 4, 12:01 AM ET: Democrats edge out, neck and neck with Republicans in 5 key Senate races: Polls - The Hill
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Google News (2 wordings): “Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls Find - The New York Times” → “Democrats edge out, neck and neck with Republicans in 5 key Senate races: Polls - The Hill”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Senate Democratic Party Republican Party New York Times Polls

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

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