By this measure, America is actually a little less polarized these days

The person behind the Cook PVI and how it all works is David Wasserman, The Cook Political Report’s senior editor and elections analyst. We invited him on to explain what the Cook PVI is, how we calculate it, what we learned from it for 2025, and what it may tell us about elections in 2026.

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