“I vote the person, not the party,” goes the old saying. And while many may still say that, in practice few do. Drew DeSilver at the incomparable Pew Research Center this month updated a great report from two years ago on voting patterns for U.S. Senate and the presidency. The new report found that 122 of 139 U.S. Senate elections since 2012 “have been won by candidates who belonged to or were aligned with the party that won that state’s most recent presidential race.” CONT.
Charlie Cook