Republicans holding more governorships after midterms stays near 75%

Name: Republicans holding more governorships after midterms stays near 75%
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-09-24T07:46:42.584Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 70%

record: CMSIG2026092403 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-4DFCBXLZN6 | published: 2026-09-24

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi prices a 70% chance Republicans hold more governorships than Democrats after the 2026 midterms.
The Democratic polling lead in congressional races has not shifted the governorship market, governors and House seats move on different electoral maps.
Senate rejection of the Iran war powers resolution (Story 15) and the pre-election rate hike backdrop may compound Republican headwinds, but the governorship market holds above two-thirds.
Resolves via the Statistical Review of World Energy as named resolution source, an unusual resolver; traders should confirm the resolution criteria carefully.

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: A new poll shows Democratic congressional candidates holding a significant lead over Republicans, with independents breaking sharply against President Trump ahead of the midterms.exa_search → PBS · as_of 2026-09-25T07:47:46+00:00
publisher: PBS
published_at: 2026-09-24T07:46:42.584Z
source_url: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-lead-in-new-poll-as-trump-looms-over-midterms

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi contract at 70%; resolution source listed as the Statistical Review of World Energy, which warrants scrutiny for a US gubernatorial outcome.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/kxgovwins-27jan01/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXGOVWINS-27JAN01-R-50

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/republicans-hold-governorship-edge-post-midterms-kalshi-70-2026-09-24/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/republicans-hold-governorship-edge-post-midterms-kalshi-70-2026-09-24.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("republicans-hold-governorship-edge-post-midterms-kalshi-70-2026-09-24")`
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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   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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