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Election Day

Voters are lined up in Bangor. The Senate is not called.

Reuters, Tuesday: polls and analysts favor Democrats to take the House. The Senate is uncertain. A Reuters/Ipsos poll completed Monday put Trump’s approval at 32 percent. The photograph is Bangor on Election Day. No candidate is named.

The Rocket News · National Desk · Bangor, MaineNovember 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Voters at tables inside the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine, on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026. Taylor Coester, Reuters. No candidate is named. This is not a return.
Voters at tables inside the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine, on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026. Taylor Coester, Reuters. No candidate is named. This is not a return.

Voters were at the polls Tuesday in midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, Reuters reported. All 435 House seats are on the ballot, and 35 of the Senate’s 100. Polls and nonpartisan analysts favor Democrats to take the House. The Senate is uncertain. Reuters said Democrats must flip at least three House seats and four Senate seats to win a majority in each chamber. This is Tuesday’s wire. It is not Sunday’s count of the current margins, and this edition is not calling a race.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll completed Monday put President Trump’s job approval at 32 percent, unchanged from a week earlier and one point above his record-low reading of 31 percent two weeks ago. On the generic congressional ballot, voters favored Democrats 46 percent to 38 percent. Among registered voters, 50 percent of independents said they saw their vote as against Trump, 13 percent as for him, and 33 percent said he was not a factor. Some 78 percent said the rising cost of living would be very important or the most important issue. On that issue they picked Democrats over Republicans, 43 percent to 32 percent. Monday’s paper printed more than 54 million early votes. This note does not print a new early-vote total. No wire in hand, as this edition closed, replaced that figure.

The photograph is Election Day in Bangor, Maine, inside the Cross Insurance Center. Taylor Coester made it for Reuters. People are at the tables. No candidate is named. It is not a return, and it is not the president.

Wire and further reading: reuters.com

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