Future Index

Topics

US state politics

Attention around US state politics is about usual, and has risen over the last 24 hours.

Governors, legislatures, ballot measures and recalls.

PoliticsUS

Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

  1. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionMastodon

    Discussion turned more positive

    2.1× its usual variation — larger than usual

    41

    +38.1 ptsup over the last 24 hours

20 changes were compared.

Across signals

No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 1 topic: 1 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 0 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

Nothing was reported on US state politics in the last 7 days.

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. High Schoolers Push to Extend the Voting Age to 16 for Local Elections in This LA Suburb - Bolts opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  2. Midterms Madness 2026: Who's Winning the Senate? (Half the Answer #111, with Ryan Cooper, Marisa Kabas, and Jonathan M. Katz) opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

Forecast contracts

One row per source's own question. These are listed side by side for comparison and are not combined into a single figure — each source is answering its own question, in its own words.

  1. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    22%somewhat unlikely−1.5 ptsdown over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    93%likelyNo movement recorded over 24 hours
  3. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    15%unlikely−2.0 ptsdown over the last 24 hours
9 further contracts on this topic — show them
  1. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    66%somewhat likely+2.1 ptsup over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    65%somewhat likely+1.0 ptsup over the last 24 hours
  3. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    86%likely+2.0 ptsup over the last 24 hours
  4. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    82%likely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  5. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    19%unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  6. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    7%unlikelyNo movement recorded over 24 hours
  7. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    35%somewhat unlikely−1.5 ptsdown over the last 24 hours
  8. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    34%somewhat unlikely−2.0 ptsdown over the last 24 hours
  9. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    79%somewhat likely+2.0 ptsup over the last 24 hours

Readers' discussion on this site

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Sources

3 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity50.0
  • LemmyPublic discussion50.0
  • MastodonPublic discussion58.4

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say