Morning Digest: Daily Kos Elections unveils new elections portal, including our own polling database

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.

Leading Off

● Site News: Daily Kos Elections is extremely excited to announce our brand-new elections portal, available at elections.dailykos.com, with an array of new tools designed to help make sense of the 2018 midterms, including our race ratings for every Senate, House, and gubernatorial race, and poll charts for every contest where we have survey data.

The left-hand side of our revamped site leads off with the Live Digest, which is our liveblog of each day's top news from every competitive race around the country. Below that, you'll find a signup for the Morning Digest, our highly regarded newsletter that repackages each day's Live Digest and goes out to subscribers by email at 8 AM each weekday morning without fail—for free.

From there, you'll find all the content published on the Daily Kos Elections blog (aka the old version of our site), and below that, you'll see election-related stories from Daily Kos community members. If you write such a post yourself, add the tag "DKECommunity" and your story will appear there, too!

The right-hand column is where you'll find interactive maps displaying all of our race ratings, along with a summary of recent changes. Click any state or district and you'll get to the real goodies: poll charts featuring every publicly released poll of every race, with trendlines showing the current polling average. That includes everything from high-profile contests like the Texas Senate race, where Ted Cruz has a narrow lead on Beto O'Rourke, to battles that will decide the outcome of the House, such as the race in California's 49th District, where Democrat Mike Levin has a wider advantage over Republican Diane Harkey.

We also have new overview pages that showcase all of our ratings for the Senate, House, and governorships in one place, which you can find in the banner across the top of the site. There you'll also see a pull-down that lets you access historical data from the 2015-16 election cycle; when this cycle concludes, we'll similarly archive everything we've collected so that researchers and data junkies will always have access to our data.

Toward the bottom of the main page of the site, you'll see something entirely new: an embedded chart showing the generic congressional ballot as polled by Civiqs, a new online polling firm owned by the parent company of Daily Kos. Civiqs polls its panel continuously, so the numbers are updated daily. You can find similar charts for other questions, such as Donald Trump's job approval rating, or views on gun safety, on Civiqs' dashboard—again, all updated continuously.

Below that, you'll find a set of links to some of our most frequently accessed data sets, such as our presidential election results by congressional district and our 2018 candidate guide, as well as a link that houses all of our data collections. And finally, you'll see candidates Daily Kos has endorsed, with links to donate to each of them.

Election Day is just five weeks away, and we aim to keep you on top of every important development between now and then. Our new site will help us do exactly that, so please, check it out!