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2018 Election
In Praise of MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki He’s the best election night analyzer there is. He also might be a robot.
By Jen Chaney
kris kobach
Sept. 12, 2018
Kansas Republicans’ Rebellion Against Kris Kobach Spreads A survey of Kansas GOP legislators shows nearly 40 percent refuse to come out for right-wing gubernatorial nominee and Trump friend Kris Kobach.
By Ed Kilgore
andrew gillum
Sept. 11, 2018
Will Andrew Gillum’s Christian Progressive Running Mate Help Win Evangelicals? It’s not clear whether Gillum was doubling down or reaching out to evangelicals with his unconventional choice of Chris King as running-mate.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Sept. 11, 2018
House GOP Runs High Risk in California, New Jersey, New York With Tax Bill 2.0 A lot of competitive House races are in the three states where loss of the SALT deduction really made suburban swing voters mad.
By Ed Kilgore
duncan hunter scandal
Aug. 27, 2018
So Far, Polls Say Voters Are Unfazed by Corruption Allegations Against Hunter Most voters in the district know about the charges against Hunter and his wife. But have they really dwelled on them in their full fatuous glory?
By Ed Kilgore
2018 election
Aug. 23, 2018
A Latino-Palestinian Progressive May Take Down Indicted GOP Congressman Duncan Hunter is in big trouble after a corruption indictment. His progressive opponent has a great personal story with some details GOP may exploit.
By Ed Kilgore
Danger Signs for GOP in Washington Bellwether As Washington State goes in August, so might go the nation in November.
By Ed Kilgore
Need a Democratic Platform? How About Harry Truman’s From 1948? Democrats 70 years ago made a lot of promises that are still, and even especially, relevant today
By Ed Kilgore
Who Will Win Georgia’s Insane GOP Gubernatorial Runoff? Democrats are hoping the wild GOP contest will help their candidate Stacey Abrams.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Rep. Rohrabacher Gets Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, Vladimir Putin The very vulnerable California Republican has a knack for toxic media appearances.
By Ed Kilgore
How to Interpret 2018 Polls Without Fooling Yourself The first rule: “Don’t believe the hype.” The other rules are almost as simple.
By Ed Kilgore
The Bill for the Ballot Battle Over California Gas Tax Could Reach $75 Million On one side of Prop. 6 is the California GOP, and on the other side unions, construction companies, and local governments.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Gubernatorial Candidate: Primary Was About Who Could Be the Craziest In the latest gleaning from a secret tape of Georgia GOP gubernatorial front-runner Casey Cagle, he admits his party’s kinda nuts.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Trade War Is a Big Problem for Republicans in Politically Pivotal Iowa Trump and his people told Iowans not to worry about Chinese retaliation against Iowa soybean exports. Now they’re worrying for real.
By Ed Kilgore
Washington Lobbyists Anticipating Democratic House Denizens of the swamp are hiring Democrats to shore up their relationships with the potential bosses of the next Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
California Bans New Local Soda Taxes Until 2031 Beverage companies played political hardball to win a broad concession from the legislature.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 election
July 2, 2018
By Gabriella Paiella
Democrats’ 2020 Hopefuls Refuse to Disagree (on the Midterms) With hundreds of races and candidates in play, Sanders, Warren, Biden, and the rest have not once taken different sides in a primary this year.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Senate Democrats Are Fighting Some Brutal Trends in the Midterms In November, they must overcome not just an adverse landscape, but a recent trend toward partisan consistency in Senate voting.
By Ed Kilgore
Californians Will Be Voting on a Wild Array of Ballot Initiatives in November From repeal of a controversial gas-tax increase to a mandate for cage-free eggs, other issues will compete with candidates for money and attention.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 election
June 29, 2018
By Gabriella Paiella
How Will the SCOTUS Confirmation Fight Affect the Midterms? If the deal goes down on a Kennedy successor before the midterms, the elections may affect the Senate vote more than the vote affects the elections.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 election
June 28, 2018
4 Exciting Progressive Women’s Campaigns to Watch If you were excited about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you’re going to want to follow them.
By Gabriella Paiella
Here’s the Moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Realized She Won She pulled off a massive upset in New York’s 14th Congressional District.
By Gabriella Paiella
How Should Democrats Tackle Trump in the Midterms? Focus on His Narcissism Research on how to hone the Dems’ anti-Trump message found what resonates most is the idea that he puts himself ahead of what’s good for the country.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Bracing for a Supreme Court Retirement Bombshell At the end of the term, the focus is on Kennedy, whose retirement could ignite the Senate races. But Thomas’s exit might spark a battle in the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ousts Top House Democrat Joe Crowley in Stunning Upset The young progressive’s win over the fourth-ranking House Democrat is sending shock waves through Washington, like Eric Cantor’s 2014 primary loss.
By Ed Kilgore
Will the Border Crisis Actually Affect Trump’s Popularity? So far the biggest week of outrage spurred by the Trump presidency doesn’t seem to be affecting his approval ratings.
By Ed Kilgore
SCOTUS Punts Again on the Question of Partisan Gerrymandering It’s now unlikely the Supremes will clarify any limitations on using redistricting for blatantly partisan purposes until the eve of 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
Why How You Feel About Trump Trumps Parties or Issues in the Fall Midterms There are signs of unusually strong positive and negative sentiment toward the president, though the battleground remains tilted toward Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
Giant Gender Gap Opening Up Among Younger Voters We think of “young voters” as a strongly pro-Democratic demographic. But that’s really just young women.
By Ed Kilgore
8 Days After Primary, Maine Democrats Get Their Top Nominees First-place finishers in the Democratic primaries for governor and Congress won after “ranked-choice voting” implemented, but it took a while.
By Ed Kilgore
Bloomberg to Spend $80 Million to Help Democrats in the Midterms Properly concentrated, Bloomberg’s big bucks could make a big difference in suburban swing districts in November.
By Ed Kilgore
Voting Rights Foe Kris Kobach’s Very Bad Day in Federal Court Another series of defeats in federal court over his voter-ID law won’t bother Kobach much if they help him get elected governor of Kansas.
By Ed Kilgore
The House Is in Play in 2018, But the Senate’s the Big Prize If Democrats can win the upper chamber in 2018, Trump will lose much of his power. And a Democratic Senate win in 2020 is quite feasible.
By Ed Kilgore
Family Separation Is the Opening Salvo of a Broader Anti-Immigration Offensive If you liked “zero tolerance,” Miller and Trump have a lot more anti-immigrant ideas where that came from.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Isn’t Very Popular in the Heartland States He Won in 2016 It doesn’t look like Trump is going to be that powerful a positive factor for GOP Senate and House candidates in some key states he won in 2016.
By Ed Kilgore
Primaries Set Up Big General-Election Battles From a wave of Democratic woman in Virginia to a shot at a GOP Senate seat in Nevada, the June 12 primaries set tables for a November banquet.
By Ed Kilgore
For Mark Sanford, the Trail Finally Ends With a Primary Loss After years of courting political danger, South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford finally lost an election — and Trump will take credit.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Insults Are Bringing Out Canada’s Fiery Inner Nationalism Anti-American sentiment is burning hot among our generally mild-mannered neighbors. And “weak” Trudeau has gotten a huge political boost.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Senate Candidate Complains That Trump Should Be Meaner to His Opponent North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer thinks the president needs to attack Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp right now.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Is a Huge Gift to Democrats The White House’s push to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions is the perfect campaign issue for Democratic candidates.
By Eric Levitz
Florida Sold Guns Without Background Checks Because of Forgotten Password Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam is a loud NRA guy. His staff didn’t do their jobs because they forgot a password. He didn’t notice.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia GOP Lieutenant Governor Caught on Tape Insisting He’s a Political Hack Front-running candidate for governor Casey Cagle walked into a trap by confessing he flip-flopped on a key bill for purely political reasons.
By Ed Kilgore
The Polls Are Swinging to the Democrats Again The 2018 Democratic wave: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again.
By Ed Kilgore
California Democrats Did Well, But Not Perfectly, in Primary It looks like Dems avoided the worst-case scenario of getting locked out of a few key U.S. House races. But they still have some problems.
By Ed Kilgore
On 3rd Thought, Representative Tom Garrett Retires, Citing Alcoholism The very erratic and vulnerable freshman GOP congressman from Virginia is now going to retire, leaving his party in a less-than-ideal situation.
By Ed Kilgore
Franklin Graham Invades ‘Godless’ California In the state where Billy Graham built his national reputation, Franklin Graham has embraced the Christian right activism his father rejected.
By Ed Kilgore
It’s the Year of Democratic Women. The GOP Remains a Party of Men A lot more women are running for Congress as Democrats — and winning primaries — while the GOP remains a boy’s club.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa Democratic Candidate for Governor Forced Out of Race by Groping Allegations A promising young legislator named Nate Boulton folded his campaign quickly after conceding the substance of multiple allegations of misconduct.
By Ed Kilgore
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