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2022 Midterms
early and often
Jan. 27, 2023
The Data-Driven Strategy Behind Democrats’ State-Level Success in 2022 The president’s party almost always loses state-level power in midterm elections. Here’s how Democrats bucked that trend last year.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Dec. 20, 2022
No, Ron DeSantis Isn’t the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan The idea that “DeSantis Democrats” are the new “Reagan Democrats” betrays a misunderstanding of both men.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 19, 2022
Why 2022’s Big Lesson for Democrats Might Be … Nothing Several Democratic Senate candidates won in ways that almost entirely depended on unique and local opportunities.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 18, 2022
The Data That Shows Progressives Can Win on Crime New polling explains why some Democrats beat back Republican attacks, and it comes down to one word: prevention .
By Ross Barkan
early and often
Dec. 15, 2022
Democrats’ Midterm Performance Is a Good Sign for Biden 2024 Presidents running for reelection tend to perform better than their party did in the preceding midterms.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 14, 2022
Democrats Came Shockingly Close to Keeping the House The final numbers show the 2022 midterms may have represented not just Republican underperformance but a lost Democratic opportunity.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 14, 2022
Georgia Republicans Are Fed Up With General-Election Runoffs After losing back-to-back Senate runoffs, GOP officials like Brad Raffensperger think it’s time to end the state’s unique overtime system.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 7, 2022
Raphael Warnock Is the Exception in Georgia, Not the Rule The pastor turned politician defied the odds again, but Georgia is still barely a purple state.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2022 midterms
Dec. 6, 2022
Herschel Walker Didn’t Just Lose; Raphael Warnock Won Walker was indeed a bad Trump-recruited candidate. But Warnock ran a very impressive campaign once again.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 5, 2022
Yes, Republicans Still Pose a Threat to Democracy The 2022 results do not show that the GOP has given up on ruling without majority support whenever it can or must.
By Ed Kilgore
Joe Biden’s Actually Not-at-All-Bad Year 2022 could have gone so much worse for Biden. 2024 — and all the steps he must take to show he’s still electable — looms next.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 1, 2022
Why Did Democrats Get the Late Breaks in the Midterms? A lot of the shock and awe over the midterm results was the product of an expectation of a late Republican surge that didn’t happen.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 1, 2022
Another Former Lover Accuses Herschel Walker of Misconduct Many women have painted a portrait of Walker as an unstable and violence-prone man possibly suffering from untreated mental illness.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 1, 2022
Democrats Should Worry About Signs of Lower Black Turnout Even in states where Black candidates headed up Democratic tickets, turnout was down. Democrats need to figure out why that happened.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 30, 2022
Herschel Walker Can’t Shake His Texas Residency Problem The GOP Senate candidate is being hit with renewed questions about his residency, which underscore claims that his heroic image in Georgia is hollow.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 19, 2022
How the House Was Won (and Lost) Republicans benefited from a fairly uniform shift in their direction among a relatively stable electorate. But Dobbs hurt them.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 19, 2022
Warnock Is Going After Kemp Voters in the Georgia Runoff The Democrat hopes to convince some Republicans that supporting him, or just staying home, is better than voting for Herschel Walker.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 17, 2022
Kari Lake Is Denying Her Election Loss In a video posted Thursday, Lake said her legal team is “exploring every avenue to correct the many wrongs that have been done this past week.”
By Nia Prater
just asking queestions
Nov. 17, 2022
The Pollster Who Predicted a Red Wave Explains Himself Trafalgar Group’s Robert Cahaly says he underestimated how bad Republicans were at getting out the vote.
By Benjamin Hart
early and often
Nov. 16, 2022
Republicans Clinch the House and That Means Gridlock Begins The smaller Kevin McCarthy’s majority, the less he will be willing to cooperate with Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 15, 2022
The Mitch McConnell vs. Rick Scott Spat Is Heating Up Scott is carrying Trump’s water in an increasingly bitter dispute over who lost the midterms. Now he’s challenging McConnell for Senate GOP leader.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 15, 2022
How Did the Election Deniers Supported by Democrats Do? An accounting of the controversial practice of boosting Republicans in primaries.
By Matt Stieb
2022 midterms
Nov. 15, 2022
Are Democrats Rebuilding Their ‘Blue Wall’ for 2024? Some Democratic optimists think states won narrowly in a midterm will fall easily in a presidential year. But voter inflexibility may explain it all.
By Ed Kilgore
just asking questions
Nov. 15, 2022
Why Tom Bonier Knew There Would Be No Red Wave Months ago, the Democratic strategist said this time the midterms would be different because of the backlash to Dobbs . Here’s what he’s learned since.
By Nia Prater
early and often
Nov. 15, 2022
New York Does Not Have a Democratic Party The midterms show the statewide organization is worse than ineffective; it is practically nonexistent when it comes to electing candidates.
By Ross Barkan
early and often
Nov. 14, 2022
Katie Hobbs Defeats Kari Lake in Arizona Governor’s Race The rising MAGA star and prominent election denier is already signaling she won’t accept the outcome.
By Chas Danner
2022 midterms
Nov. 14, 2022
Just How Unusual Were These Midterms? There are some parallels with 1962, 1998, and a few other years. But the more you look at it, the more 2022 could be unique.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 14, 2022
Who Has the Edge in Georgia’s Suddenly Less Momentous Senate Runoff? Herschel Walker trailed the rest of the GOP ticket in his state, but beyond that, national investment in this race is now in question.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 14, 2022
Electability Is Great Again Lessons from the midterms could make a Biden-Trump 2024 rematch much less of a sure thing.
By Ed Kilgore
the city politic
Nov. 13, 2022
New Yorkers Rejected the Doom and Gloom About Crime Midterm voters did not accept the premise that crime is an all-consuming battle that New York is losing.
By Errol Louis
2022 midterms
Nov. 12, 2022
Democrats Keep Control of the Senate Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Adam Laxalt to give Democrats their 50th Senate vote in the next Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 12, 2022
Democrats Made Gains in the States, Too They flipped two governorships and several state legislative chambers while holding off Republican election deniers.
By Ed Kilgore
just asking questions
Nov. 12, 2022
Donald Trump’s Gift to Democrats Cook Political Report ’s Amy Walter on the ex-president’s pivotal role in an unusual midterm.
By Benjamin Hart
just asking questions
Nov. 11, 2022
John Fetterman’s Team on How the Stroke Changed His Campaign Senior adviser Rebecca Katz on the health crisis, the controversy, and how they turned a purple state blue on Election Day.
By Nia Prater
2022 midterms
Nov. 11, 2022
How Many Republican Chokers Is Trump Responsible For? The GOP was supposed to easily win the Senate this year, but it’s had some big misfires.
By Ed Kilgore
the inside game
Nov. 11, 2022
The Vindication (for Now) of Joe Biden Being underestimated is not new to those who’ve been with him from the start.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
just asking questions
Nov. 11, 2022
How Democrats Beat Back the GOP on Crime and Inflation Veteran pollster Stan Greenberg thinks some candidates addressed the issues smartly — but that Joe Biden is out of touch.
By Benjamin Hart
The Red Wave That Wasn’t: Updates Biden said Wednesday that voters had proven that “democracy is who we are.”
By Intelligencer Staff
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
How Accurate Were the Polls in the 2022 Elections? While votes are still being counted and there were some big misses, the polls were generally more on the mark than last time around.
By Ed Kilgore
tremendous content
Nov. 9, 2022
Trump Insists Election Disaster Was Actually ‘a Big Victory’ Across the political spectrum, Donald Trump was dubbed Tuesday night’s biggest loser. But in his personal fantasyland, it was a different story.
By Margaret Hartmann
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
By Benjamin Hart
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
By Nia Prater
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
The Abortion-Rights Winning Streak Continues Kentucky rejected a constitutional abortion ban, and California, Michigan, and Vermont added abortion rights to their state constitutions.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
What Neighborhoods Went for Lee Zeldin? A micro-breakdown of Tuesday night’s results.
By Clio Chang
early and often
Nov. 9, 2022
Walker-Warnock Senate Race Goes to Overtime Georgia’s Democratic senator and his legendary (if damaged) Republican challenger will meet again in a December 6 general-election runoff.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 9, 2022
The 7 Big Lessons of the 2022 Midterm Elections Democrats pulled off the strongest performance by an in-power party in two decades.
By Eric Levitz
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
Ron Johnson Survives, Again The most-frustrating Republican senator to Democrats defeats Mandela Barnes, thanks in no small part to highlighting his liberal past.
By Ross Barkan
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
Republicans Actually Had an Excellent Night in New York Lee Zeldin lost, but he helped his party win major victories around the state.
By Ross Barkan
2022 midterms
Nov. 9, 2022
John Fetterman Beats Dr. Oz and a Stroke, Flipping Pennsylvania for Democrats Negative impressions of the TV-celebrity carpetbagger and his extremist party outweighed doubts about his Democratic opponent.
By Ed Kilgore
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