Blue wave in 2026 stays near fully priced on Kalshi

Name: Blue wave in 2026 stays near fully priced on Kalshi
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-11-05T12:31:10.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 99%

record: CMSIG2026110502 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-QK0HJYVMX2 | published: 2026-11-05

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi prices the 2026 blue wave contract at 99%, consistent with reported Democratic sweeps of both House and Senate.
Multiple news outlets confirm Democrats flipped control of both chambers, making this contract effectively settled in the market.
The 99% price leaves a residual 1% tail likely reflecting resolution-mechanic uncertainty, not genuine outcome doubt.
Resolves via Bureau of Labor Statistics per the provided source, though the actual outcome determination is electoral; traders should note the named resolver.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: Democrats swept Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, flipping both chambers and exceeding 250 House seats while Republicans lost control of Congress.exa_search → 0 NBC News NBC News · as_of 2026-11-07T07:48:17+00:00
publisher: 0 NBC News NBC News
published_at: 2026-11-05T12:31:10.000Z
source_url: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/election-results-house-senate-trump-congress-live-updates-rcna607549

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi contract at 99% is fully aligned with the reported Democratic sweep; no contrary signal present.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxbluewavecombo-27feb/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXBLUEWAVECOMBO-27FEB

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/2026-blue-wave-kalshi-99-2026-11-05/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/2026-blue-wave-kalshi-99-2026-11-05.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("2026-blue-wave-kalshi-99-2026-11-05")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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  "detection": "news_cycle",
  "category_tag": "MOMENTUM_REPRICING",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "lagging",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-QK0HJYVMX2",
  "target_event_slug": "kxbluewavecombo-27feb",
  "event_question": "Will there be a blue wave in 2026?",
  "bullets": [
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    "Multiple news outlets confirm Democrats flipped control of both chambers, making this contract effectively settled in the market.",
    "The 99% price leaves a residual 1% tail likely reflecting resolution-mechanic uncertainty, not genuine outcome doubt.",
    "Resolves via Bureau of Labor Statistics per the provided source, though the actual outcome determination is electoral; traders should note the named resolver."
  ],
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        }
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    "prompt_template": "news_cycle_v1"
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  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/kxbluewavecombo-27feb/",
      "related": []
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    "external": {
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      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "0 NBC News NBC News: Vote counts in Alaska, Mississippi and Kansas continue after Democrati",
      "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/election-results-house-senate-trump-congress-live-updates-rcna607549",
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

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