Entity

Michigan

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 15 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Water and Business.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Election: michigan & republican

    Registered event · reported 17 Jul 2026 to 22 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

All 1 event and claims involving Michigan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 67 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 40 on 29 Sept 2026 (+68%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 17 Oct 2026 (6 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,463 documents · 345 publishers · 2% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.021: about 98% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Michigan

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TexasTrumpOhioSenateAIPennsylvaniaIllinoisGeorgia
  • Texas · 394 shared documents
  • Trump · 387 shared documents
  • Ohio · 340 shared documents
  • America · 297 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Senate · 283 shared documents
  • AI · 274 shared documents
  • Pennsylvania · 265 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 248 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Illinois · 242 shared documents
  • Georgia · 239 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 67 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 40 on 29 Sept 2026 (+68%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +509% from 5 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 4 and 88 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Michigan, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Michigan yet. Ask about Michigan

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/f4117380c108b60ee737779f returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name michigan.

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  "domains": 15,
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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    "changes": 6
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  "whereFrom": {
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      {
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 94 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Michigan

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Election: michigan & republican

    Registered event · reported 17 Jul 2026 to 22 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Michigan

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Michigan

Entity.

Evidence
1,463 documents · 345 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 31 Mar 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
2% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (0)

none on file at this cutoff

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Michigan, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Michigan

Markets whose question is about Michigan or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Michigan and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 27.5% Yes

    “Will total votes cast in the 2026 midterm election for Senator from Michigan be between 4,800,000 and 5,000,000?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “michigan” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 68.5% Yes

    “Will the Democrats win the Michigan Senate race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “michigan” is named in the question · closes 31 Dec 2026

1 more open market joined to Michigan but not about it
  • 45% Yes

    “Will the Republicans win Macomb County in the Michigan Senate race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · “michigan” appears only as the place something happens (“in …”) · closes 31 Dec 2026

What it connects to

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Recorded history

  • 17 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 15 Oct 2026

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 15 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

  • 13 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

6 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.