Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be. Known as “bellwether counties,” these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades. Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a “microcosm of the nation” in...

Millions of Americans are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their Election Day ballots, and in battleground Georgia, more than half the state’s active voters have already done so. The Peach State’s early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 saw more than 4 million people vote either early in-person or absentee. That’s 55.5% of their active voting populace, according to Georgia’s Election Data Hub. Both...