{"id":"d613c26f-0ef7-48d3-8111-1ab61d7edd2a","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/midterm-election-democratic-wave.html","domain":"nytimes.com","outlet":{"name":"The New York Times","country":"US","cred":5,"lean":-1,"curated":true,"owner":"The New York Times Company"},"title":"Why This Election Could Be More Complicated for Democrats Than Polls Suggest","plainHeadline":"The election could be more complicated for Democrats than polls suggest.","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":[],"topics":["Politics","Economy","Education"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T09:02:09.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-09T10:19:12.348Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/7636567d-852b-4415-9ddb-6cb0edae8360","storyId":"7636567d-852b-4415-9ddb-6cb0edae8360","image":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/10/07/multimedia/07pol-past-waves-01-mcfb/07pol-past-waves-01-mcfb-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg","author":"Reid J. Epstein","dek":"The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes."}