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Five changes to the /midterms-2026 hub:
- Governor tab gets a top-line summary ("10 of 19 races lean Democrat"),
rendered in a new absolutely-positioned header row shared with the chamber
tabs and legend so a wrapping summary never pushes the map down. Lean split
is >= 50%, matching the state tooltip so the two can't disagree.
- Both seat-distribution charts gain a median callout: a dot on the x-axis at
the median bin carrying an always-on VictoryTooltip. It hides while a bin is
hovered so it never stacks with the hover tooltip, and is suppressed entirely
when the median is exactly 0 (the EVEN bin already owns that spot). Hover
flyouts go to 90% opacity, the median's to 80%, both +1px padding-top and
~2px more gap between lines.
- Chamber control's pre-midterm baseline reads "Today:" instead of "Current:"
and drops its party colors for gray, so it reads as context rather than
competing with the live forecast above it. Also fixes an existing dark-mode
bug: those two spans hardcoded light-mode hexes with no dark variant.
- Community Insight cards carry their question title in a header strip, with
the comment as the visual hero and the author as a footer. Height is capped
rather than fixed, so short comments let the card shrink.
- Adds the Labor Hub's three engagement cards (contact / share / newsletter)
with midterms copy and its own Mailjet list. NewsletterSubscribeCard gained
an optional `copy` prop defaulting to its current English, so the Labor Hub
renders unchanged.
Median-marker note: Victory's voronoi handleMouseMove calls onActivated(new)
then onDeactivated(previous) back-to-back in the same tick, so an unconditional
onDeactivated handler silently undoes every activation. Guarded with a ref.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe midterms hub adds forecast timelines, race-lean and seat-median summaries, updated map and insight cards, localized messages, and contact, sharing, and newsletter engagement controls. ChangesMidterms hub updates
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to Duplicate English translation keys can fail linting and cause localized text to resolve inconsistently, so the PR is not merge-ready until the conflicting entries are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MidtermsPage
participant ElectionsMapSection
participant BalanceOfPowerTimelines
participant buildControlTimeline
participant GroupChart
MidtermsPage->>ElectionsMapSection: render election section
ElectionsMapSection->>BalanceOfPowerTimelines: provide congressOutcome
BalanceOfPowerTimelines->>buildControlTimeline: build forecast timelines
buildControlTimeline-->>BalanceOfPowerTimelines: return chart series
BalanceOfPowerTimelines->>GroupChart: render interactive timelines
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The hub's right panel showed only point-in-time numbers, so a reader couldn't tell whether "Democrats 86.3% to hold the House" was a sharp move or had been flat for months. The panel now shows three community-prediction timelines — House, Senate, and the four-way congressional outcome — covering ~18 months of history (333 aggregation points back to Jan 2025). No new fetching: getPostsWithCP already sets include_cp_history, so the history for #34484 was arriving and being discarded. - helpers/build_control_timelines.ts turns that history into ChoiceItem series, summing options per series. House = DD+RD / RR+DR and Senate = DD+DR / RR+RD, the same sums chamber_control_card.tsx uses, so each line's last point lands exactly on the percentage the cards showed (verified: 86.3/13.7, 37.3/62.7). Deliberately not built on generateChoiceItemsFromMultipleChoiceForecast, which routes through getAllOptionsHistory — that returns only the last entry of question.options when options_history is absent and would silently collapse a four-option question to one series. - Rendered with the shared GroupChart: individual lines, a dot pinned to each endpoint that tracks the cursor on hover, and no axes. Values live in the legend instead, showing the current figure at rest and the hovered point's figure while the cursor is in the plot. - GroupChart gains additive hideYAxis / hideXAxis props (both default false, so no existing call site changes). Its axis tick styles are set inline on the VictoryAxis and can't be reached via extraTheme, hence props rather than a theme override. hideXAxis makes permanent what the component already did while the cursor was active; pair it with showCursorLabel so the hovered date is the only x value ever shown. - The four congressional outcomes use MULTIPLE_CHOICE_COLOR_SCALE; two blues and two reds were indistinguishable as four lines. - Layout: one rule divides the map from the panel and runs the full card height, and the map column now carries the same padding as the panel so it's inset equally on all sides rather than butting against the rule. The snapshot cards (chamber_control_card, congress_outcome_card) are no longer rendered but are left in place unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
blue-300 read heavier than the rest of the section's chrome now that it's the only structural line in the card. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@front_end/messages/en.json`:
- Around line 2394-2395: Update the plural wording in
midtermsHubSeatAdvantageTooltip and midtermsHubSeatAdvantageOverTooltip so
counts above one render “seats advantage” instead of “seat advantage,” while
preserving the existing count interpolation and greater-than prefix.
In
`@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/balance_of_power_timelines.tsx:
- Around line 214-215: Update the percentage rendering in the balance-of-power
timeline component to use useLocale() and Intl.NumberFormat with style "percent"
and one minimum and maximum fraction digit. Preserve the existing em-dash for
null values, and format non-null values through the locale-aware formatter so
locales such as Spanish use the correct decimal and spacing conventions.
In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/insight_card.tsx:
- Around line 17-19: Update the excerpt generation in InsightCard, including the
related logic at the alternate excerpt usage, so the EXCERPT_CHARS limit is
applied at the last whitespace boundary at or before the limit rather than
slicing through a word. Preserve the existing line-clamp-6 rendering and
fallback behavior.
- Around line 33-36: Update the Link in insight_card to provide a localized
screen-reader-only cue announcing that it opens in a new tab, using
useTranslations() rather than hardcoded English; preserve the existing
target="_blank" behavior and ensure the cue is included in the link’s accessible
name.
In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/helpers/build_control_timelines.ts:
- Around line 70-73: Update the timeline-building flow around the timestamp loop
and findCoveringForecast so forecast coverage is computed once using a sorted,
monotonic cursor over history rather than calling history.find per timestamp and
series. Reuse the resulting timestamp-to-forecast mapping for sumCenters and
forecaster counts across all series, preserving existing aggregation values and
fallback behavior.
In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/sections/engagement_section.tsx:
- Line 58: Extend useCopyUrl to accept caller-provided localized success and
failure messages, displaying both through the existing toast/status feedback
path instead of relying on its hardcoded English success text and logging-only
failure handling. In engagement_section.tsx, update the useCopyUrl call to pass
the appropriate translated success and failure strings from the available i18n
source.
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…lized copy toast - Insight cards navigate in the current tab instead of opening a new one. Their corner glyph changes from the open-in-new-window arrow to a plain right arrow, which is what the link now actually does. - build_control_timelines resolves each timestamp's covering forecast window once with a monotonic cursor and shares the result across every series, replacing a history.find scan run per timestamp per series. Both sequences ascend, so this is a single pass rather than series x timestamps x history. Verified behavior-identical against the previous implementation: 3 charts x 7 sample indices x 8 series, plus timestamps, labels and forecaster counts — zero mismatches, zero nulls across 333 points. It assumes non-overlapping aggregation windows, which is how CP history is built; the tradeoff is noted in the helper's comment. - useCopyUrl accepts optional localized success/failure messages. It previously hardcoded an English success toast and dropped failures into console.error, so on the fully-translated midterms hub "Copy Link" showed English, and a denied clipboard write left the button looking broken. Both defaults are unchanged, so the other three callers behave exactly as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the map's party legend. The balance-of-power panel's timeline legend already names both parties in the same hues with live values, so the card carried two legends for one colour scheme. Dropped on the tile map too, where that panel sits directly below. Moves the race readout into the corner the legend vacated, right-aligned, and gives the Senate tab one of its own: "13 of 23 races lean Republican · 3 too close to call". summarizeRaceLeans now also counts races within 10 points of even, in the same pass so the two figures can't contradict each other; the count deliberately overlaps the lean split rather than partitioning it, since a toss-up still leans one way. Alignment is passed per call site because the summary sets a text-align class on itself, which a wrapper could not override. Fits the timelines' y-axis to the plotted range instead of a fixed 0-100%. The machinery was already wired into GroupChart, but a carve-out discarded the computed domain for binary questions; binaryYZoom opts a chart out of that and minYSpan floors the result, since generateYDomain collapses to a +/-1pp window when a series is flat and would draw noise as movement. The two party series are exact complements, so their span tracks distance from 50/50 rather than how much the forecast moved: Senate tightens to ~[0.33, 0.67], Congressional Control to ~[0, 0.55], while House at 86/14 barely changes. Values themselves are untouched - the legend still reads 86.3/13.7 and 37.3/62.7. Restores the seat-distribution median callout at every median. Zero now has its own wording and takes the label's ink; without a branch it fell through to the Republican string as "R +0 seats" in red, which is why it had been suppressed. The Senate median is zero right now, so that callout had been missing entirely. Also brings the range toggle's active state in line with the Key Drivers toggle - blue-700 inverts across themes, which is what reads as dark-on-light - and folds in the earlier uncommitted panel work: text-sm titles and legends, the reclaimed right padding behind the hidden y-axis, the floating timeframe toggle, its clipping fix, and 2M as the default range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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627-631: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemove the duplicate translation keys.
excludeBotson Line 627 andbotson Line 631 are already declared elsewhere infront_end/messages/en.json. Biome reports both duplicate keys. Remove these entries or rename them to the intended new keys; otherwise lint fails and consumers may silently use the last value.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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69-74: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExport the new options type.
Line 69 declares
CopyUrlOptionswithoutexport. Consumers can pass an inline object touseCopyUrl, but they cannot import the type for their own annotations or wrappers. Change it toexport type CopyUrlOptions.Proposed fix
-type CopyUrlOptions = CurrentUrlOptions & { +export type CopyUrlOptions = CurrentUrlOptions & {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@front_end/src/components/charts/group_chart.tsx`:
- Around line 225-234: Update the zoom state handling around internalZoom,
controlledZoom, and handleZoomChange so the latest controlled zoom is preserved
when the parent stops supplying zoom. Synchronize internalZoom with
controlledZoom changes, while retaining the existing uncontrolled behavior and
onZoomChange callback.
In `@front_end/src/hooks/share.ts`:
- Around line 86-100: Guard the clipboard operation in the share flow before
invoking navigator.clipboard.writeText, checking that both navigator.clipboard
and writeText are available. When unsupported, use the existing errorMessage
path to show the localized failure toast and avoid the synchronous exception;
preserve the existing success and asynchronous catch behavior for supported
APIs.
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In `@front_end/messages/en.json`:
- Around line 627-631: Remove or rename the duplicate excludeBots and bots
translation keys in the messages JSON, reusing the existing declarations where
appropriate. Preserve the intended labels for humansOnly and humansAndBots, and
ensure each JSON key is declared only once so lint passes.
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In `@front_end/src/hooks/share.ts`:
- Around line 69-74: Export the CopyUrlOptions type so consumers can import it
for annotations and wrappers, changing its declaration without altering its
fields or behavior.
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GroupChart's internal zoom state only ever changed through the chart's own picker, so a parent that drives `zoom` from elsewhere never reached it. The midterms panel does exactly that: internal state sat at `defaultZoom` while the chart displayed 2M, and releasing control would have snapped the range back. A useEffect now mirrors the controlled value, matching the pattern the neighbouring `yDomainSource` state already uses. Uncontrolled behaviour and the onZoomChange callback are unchanged. `navigator.clipboard` is undefined outside a secure context, so reading `.writeText` off it threw synchronously, where the promise's catch could not see it — the click ended in an uncaught error and no toast, which reads as a broken button. useCopyUrl now checks for the API first and reports through the existing localized error path. The success and async-rejection paths are untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Every balance-of-power number on the dashboard was a single snapshot, so nothing
told a reader whether 86% was a sharp move or had been flat since spring. This
PR adds forecast history, race readouts on the map, and an engagement section.
Balance-of-power panel
The two snapshot cards become three timeline charts:
A single vertical rule divides the map from the panel, which now carries no card
chrome of its own. One toggle drives the timeframe on all three charts at once
(default: 2 months), so they can't drift apart and invite false comparisons. The
legend shows the latest value, and follows the cursor when you hover a chart.
build_control_timelines.tsderives all three from question 34484, summingoption probabilities for the House and Senate series.
Map
summarizeRaceLeansalso counts races within 10 points of even. A close racestill counts on the side it leans, so the two figures in one sentence
reconcile.
Seat distributions
Community insights
Engagement section
useCopyUrlnow takes translated messages instead of hardcoded English.Translations
New keys added to all six message files: en, es, cs, pt, zh, zh-TW.
Verification
bun run lint— 0 errorsbun run build— passesKnown limits
legend values are the only cue for the size of a movement.
chamber_control_card.tsxandcongress_outcome_card.tsxare no longerrendered. Files kept; deleting them is a separate PR.
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