What We Know About The Economist's Midterms Preview Episode

The Economist posted an episode of its daily podcast on Nov. 2, 2026, titled "Off to the races: our American-midterms preview," according to the show's podcast page. The public episode description does not name specific states, candidates, or polling figures, so this is a narrow look at what the listing actually confirms.

What did The Economist publish on Nov. 2?

The outlet's daily podcast feed carried an episode built around a midterms preview, per the page's title and summary. The description frames the segment as a preview rather than a results analysis, consistent with a pre-election publication date more than three weeks before the midterms.

What else is in the same episode?

The Nov. 2 episode is not a single-topic show. The page lists two additional segments: one on young people who are "swapping the property ladder for the markets," and a second described as "lessons in fame from Harry Houdini," according to the episode summary. That brings the total disclosed segment count for the episode to three, per the same listing.

What midterm details are missing from the public description?

The episode page does not specify which congressional races, governorships, or ballot measures the midterms segment covers. It does not list guest names, polling averages, or seat projections. Readers looking for race-by-race numbers will need to listen to the audio itself or consult The Economist's separate election-forecasting pages, since none of that detail appears in the description reviewed here.

What should readers watch for as Election Day nears?

• Whether The Economist publishes a written companion piece with state-level polling to accompany the audio preview.
• Whether later episodes in the daily podcast feed name specific competitive races, given that this Nov. 2 listing did not.
• Whether the property-ladder-versus-markets segment ties back to midterm-adjacent economic policy debates, since the episode groups the two topics together without explaining a direct link.
• Whether turnout or early-voting figures appear in subsequent Economist coverage closer to the vote.

Where can readers find more Nov. 2 business coverage?

Elsewhere in HTT News's Nov. 2 report, the FX desk examined whether the carry trade still has room to run, concluding it is not an "autopilot" bet, according to Citi's trading desk. A separate same-day story covered testimony from an execution doctor describing a misplaced IV line, per HTT's report. Neither story is about the midterms; they are flagged here only because they ran the same day as The Economist's preview episode.

For now, the confirmed facts are limited: an episode exists, it was published Nov. 2, 2026, and it bundles a midterms preview with two unrelated segments. Specific race data was not part of the material reviewed for this piece.