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John Lapinski is director of elections at NBC News.

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Democratic enthusiasm doesn't tell the full story of election upsets in Florida

Democrats are energized, turning out to the polls in droves ever since President Donald Trump returned to the White House
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Poll: Most Americans oppose political parties drawing election lines

Politicians are moving quickly on partisan redistricting efforts in several states to shape the 2026 midterm elections.

Poll: More Americans oppose the U.S. strikes on Iran, as MAGA supporters line up with Trump

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran has divided Americans and exposed fault lines within the coalitions of both parties, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey.

Once again, polls missed a decisive slice of Trump voters in 2024

As America’s pollsters and polling aggregators conduct their postmortems on the 2024 presidential election, some are already saying that their pre-election surveys got it right, noting the close results in each of the seven presidential battlegrounds.

What are red and blue 'mirages,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win

Once the last voter casts their ballot in a state and the polls close, the process of revealing the winner begins.

Inside NBC News' Decision Desk: When will we know who won the presidential race?

Several key states are perennially slow vote counters. Others have invested in speeding up the process. But if it’s a very close race, don’t expect a quick resolution.

What the early voting data shows about new voters — a group that could swing the election

With nearly 60 million ballots already cast, everyone interested in the presidential election is trying to figure out where the race stands.

A lot of state poll results show ties. So are they tied because of voters — or pollsters?

State polls are showing not just an astonishingly tight 2024 race, but also an improbably tight race, missing some of the randomness inherent in polling that should be generating more varied and less clustered results.

How votes get counted and reported on election night — and how NBC News gathers and checks the data

A network of reporters and voting experts gather results from thousands of jurisdictions, checking all of it for anomalies before viewers and readers see the data.

How the NBC News Decision Desk projects races on general election night 2024

Here’s how the NBC News Decision Desk projects election winners, the steps it takes to verify results and the answers to some frequently asked questions on the process.

How the NBC News Decision Desk makes election calls in 2024 races

Here’s how NBC News calls races on election night, the steps it takes to verify results and the answers to some frequently asked questions.
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