Key Points• Among states that are finished voting this year, 5 chose candidates of different parties between their Senate and gubernatorial elections. This number is roughly in line with recent midterms.• Georgia is headed to a runoff, but Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Brian Kemp (R-GA) placed first in their […] Read more »
The New Crossover Members of the House
Key Points• Republicans won a slim House majority at least in part by winning more victories in districts that Joe Biden carried than Democrats did in districts carried by Donald Trump.• There are currently slated to be 18 Republicans in Biden seats and just 5 Democrats in Trump seats.• Democrats […] Read more »
Voters Have Deep Concerns Over Threat to Democracy, but for Very Different Reasons
Just weeks after the fall’s midterm elections, voters feel strongly that the country’s democracy is being threatened. While a lack of respect and civility in politics continues to remain an issue for voters, there’s not a lot of agreement on why Americans feel this way. According to the latest Georgetown […] Read more »
Small rebound in approval of U.S. Supreme Court, continued opposition to use of race as a factor in college admissions
A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds 44% of adults approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, while 56% disapprove. In September, 40% approved and 60% disapproved. Approval declined sharply between July and September 2021, then fell further in May 2022 following the leaked draft […] Read more »
The Dust Has Settled (with Ron Brownstein)
This week Robert Gibbs and Mike Murphy were joined by a man whose many titles will take up most of our episode description. He is a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, a Senior Political Analyst for CNN, and the author of “Rock Me on the Water: 1974 — The Year […] Read more »
Where History Rhymed and Where It Didn’t
Earlier this cycle I compared midterm elections to Mark Twain’s famous quip about history not repeating, but often rhyming. Each midterm election is unique, but there are also patterns and norms that are constants from one midterm to the next. With the dust now (almost) settled, Twain’s quote was a […] Read more »