How The New York Times Is Covering the Midterm Elections

Much has changed in the nearly 20 years that Patricia Mazzei, a political correspondent for The New York Times, has covered elections.But one aspect of her life has remained the same: hitting the road.Ms.

Mazzei has driven more than 1,525 miles through Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina this year while reporting on midterm races for The Times’s Politics desk.“I try to get as wide a variety of reporting experiences as I can,” said Ms.Mazzei, who covered elections at The Miami Herald for a decade before arriving at The Times in 2017.

“It’s incredible to get to explore different parts of the country.”From her home base in Florida, Ms.Mazzei is among more than 400 Times reporters, editors, data analysts, video journalists and photographers who have been covering the thousands of races for House and Senate seats, governorships, judgeships and more throughout the United States.Over days that can stretch from 3 a.m.

wake-up calls to whenever a campaign rally ends at night, they have sought to nail down candidates’ positions; scrutinized polling data to spot trends; and spent countless hours talking with political advisers, pollsters, organizing groups and voters.“It’s a big country and voters are complicated — and sometimes contradictory — and we always have plenty to explain on and after election night about what happened and how,” Ms.Mazzei said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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