Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination. The Twitter accounts were hidden in plain sight. The profiles were publicly available but […] Read more »
You win elections to enact policy, not the other way around
… The Beltway media approach to winning elections is to regard winning elections as the key step that helps you win more elections. … Ultimately, though, the point of winning elections is to pass legislation that helps the most people, at the least harm, and at a reasonable cost. Majorities […] Read more »
The GOP’s numbers problem
… For two years, Republicans had been working to correct one of the party’s greatest embarrassments of recent years: the flawed polling that led so many in the party to believe Mitt Romney was on the cusp of victory in 2012. But after dramatically underestimating Democratic turnout in 2012, it […] Read more »
Health Care and the Obama Presidency: A Giant Squander?
There’s no doubt that, as midterms go, President Obama has not fared well. … The successive Republican waves are particularly devastating because they swept away what many pundits believed to be a coming period of Democratic electoral dominance. … Where did it all go wrong? CONT. Matthew Dickinson, Middlebury College Read more »
For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections)
The Democrats invested millions of dollars in a vaunted field operation to mobilize the young and nonwhite voters who do not usually participate in midterm elections. Yet it was not enough to save Democrats from a Republican landslide. Does the decisive Republican victory mean that the Bannock Street Project, as […] Read more »
Split Signals Out of Colorado County
All election results aren’t equally important, as some places may matter more than others. Consider Arapahoe County, Colo. Sitting just east of Denver, Arapahoe is a crucial county in one of the most important swing states on the electoral map. It’s the kind of place both Democrats and Republicans see […] Read more »