What's a ‘red' and ‘blue mirage,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win A big lead at some point on election night doesn’t always mean a candidate will win.

Virginia is an example of a state that usually has a geography-driven red mirage early on election night. This is because Fairfax County, a high-population suburb of Washington, D.C., where Joe ...

But now, a new survey from YouGov-Economist suggests that 2020’s big split between Democrats and Republicans in how they plan to vote could recur to an alarming degree. Voting by mail is, in ...