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Here are 5 key questions to prep you for the coming days of the 2022 election season

The election is likely to extend beyond Tuesday — for days, if not weeks. Here, five questions to help you think about this next phase of the 2022 election season.
People cast their vote on Election Day at P.S. 11 Purvis J. Behan Elementary on Nov. 2, 2021 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City.

Election Day is almost here! Well, almost. Tens of millions have already voted, and the election is likely to extend beyond Tuesday for days, if not weeks. Several races, especially in the Senate, are expected to be razor tight and control of the chamber may not be known for a while.

Here are five questions to help you think about this next phase of election season.

1. Have things settled back to a typical midterm environment?

It seemed for a while – from late June after the decision overturning through September – that Democrats might defy political gravity and not suffer the kinds of losses that are so. So no one really knows what's going to happen with the Senate exactly – and don't believe anyone who seems to think they do.

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