State of the Midterms: On the ground in Michigan, Texas and Iowa with voters and their key issues

What the coverage shows

The coverage converges on a four-state Senate picture centered on Maine and Kansas, with Fox News and The Hill both saying the races there are extremely close and CNN’s poll shows Democrats ahead. Fox News alone folds in Texas and Michigan as places where Democrats lead, while CNN’s extract similarly groups Maine, Michigan, Texas and Kansas as states that could decide control. NBC News is the outlier, narrowing to a Maine race breakdown rather than the broader poll framing.

Written by Crossfiled from the 1 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.