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2010 Midterms
2022 midterms
Feb. 6, 2022
Democrats Need More Than Redistricting Wins in 2022 There’s been great news for Democrats on the redistricting front. But actually holding the House in the midterms will still be very tough.
By Ed Kilgore
Are Democrats Just Repeating Obama’s First Year? There are some striking similarities between the party’s current problems and what they faced 12 years ago. But Obama did manage to get reelected.
By Ed Kilgore
Is It Time for Democrats to Panic About Virginia — and the Midterms? Here’s some reassurance even for Democrats who are worried Glenn Youngkin’s defeat of Terry McAuliffe for governor would foretell a 2022 disaster.
By Ed Kilgore
Democratic Losses in 2022 Won’t Doom Biden’s Reelection Clinton and Obama bounced back after their party’s poor midterm performances, and Biden will have the benefit of incumbency in 2024.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
July 27, 2021
Why 2022 Won’t Be Another 1994 Republican Tidal Wave Lindsey Graham’s prediction of an impending red wave ignores several key factors behind the GOP’s historic gains in Bill Clinton’s first midterm.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Can’t Win the Culture War With Silence Changing the subject to poll-tested economic policy issues has never dispelled Republican cultural smears in the past. It won’t now, either.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
June 22, 2021
Will Young and Minority Voters Save Democrats in 2022? With or without some help from Donald Trump, Democrats need to keep the voters who surged to the polls in 2018 and 2020 engaged.
By Ed Kilgore
What Joe Biden and George W. Bush Have in Common Comparing the early performances of our most-recent presidents.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Big Mo Matters to Biden Past presidents — including Barack Obama — who got off to a slow or clumsy start often paid dearly for it. Biden wants to avoid that fate.
By Ed Kilgore
History Suggests Democratic Trifecta Could Be Short-Lived As Democrats officially take control of the Senate, they’d be wise to move fast: Republicans shattered their last two trifectas in just two years.
By Ed Kilgore
If He Wants to Save the Country, Biden Needs to Understand Obama’s Failures If he wins, Biden will face challenges more daunting than those Obama faced, and failed to vanquish, in 2009. He’ll need to aim higher.
By Ed Kilgore
Scott Brown and a Perilous Decade For Progressivism In January 2010 all the excitement associated with Obama’s election began to dissipate after a special election in Massachusetts.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 17, 2018
Unlike Obama, Trump’s Response to Midterm Defeat Was to Double Down Obama took responsibility for his party’s defeat and at least offered negotiations with the opposing party. Trump: not so much.
By Ed Kilgore
