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Republicans face grim prospects for 2026 elections

Rank
Ran
26h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
3
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
2

+0

The Sydney Morning Herald Australia · English 2 Oct, 19:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Português (1) · +0 languages

Read at The Sydney Morning Herald

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 3 after 27 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Oct, 19:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Brazil, with CNN Brasil.
  3. Second region: Americas, with CNN Brasil.
  4. Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

27 of 27 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. The Sydney Morning Herald 2 Oct, 19:00 UTC
  2. CNN Brasil +14h 1m
  3. Stuff +26h 40m

The figures

Coverage
3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 2: Australia, New Zealand. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Oct 2026, 19:00 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 19:20 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 21:39 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
3 Oct 2026 230 3.31 3 3 2 2 4.0

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Started 2 Oct, 19:20 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 21:39 UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 3 Oct, 09:00 UTC
    Análise: Os Republicanos deveriam estar em pânico com as eleições de 2026?

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Stuff New Zealand 3 Oct, 21:39 UTC
    With a month to go, Trump’s midterm prospects look ‘catastrophically bad’
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 2 Oct, 19:00 UTC
    With a month to go, Republicans’ midterm prospects are ‘catastrophically bad’
Read at The Sydney Morning Herald

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