… To be clear, it’s still very likely that the man who will win the upcoming special election in Alabama to replace Sessions will be the Republican, Roy Moore. But with revelations reported by The Post that Moore allegedly sought sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, it seems […] Read more »
How Republican losses in Virginia could mean real trouble for the GOP in 2018
In 1897, an earthquake that hit 5.8 on the Richter scale shook Virginia and was felt across 12 other states. Six months later, William McKinley’s Republican Party experienced its own disaster in Virginia, losing 15 seats in the state House of Delegates. Not until Tuesday night did another such earthquake […] Read more »
Laws of Political Gravity Dragging Down Republicans
About a year ago at this time, many of us in Washington, DC were trying to catch our breath, still reeling from the political upset that blindsided us. Many of us were wondering if the rulebook of politics—the one all of us had been dutifully following for years—should be thrown […] Read more »
Poll Hub: How the polls fared in the Virginia governor’s race
The pre-election polls in Virginia were wildly inconsistent. The disparate methodologies, specifically how samples were selected, muddied the narrative of the gubernatorial contest. As the Poll Hub team explains, the traditional method of conducting live interviews using a Random Digit Dial sampling method proved the most accurate in predicting this […] Read more »
Alabama: Accusations Against Moore Put Senate Race in Limbo
Revelations today that four women have accused former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, the GOP in the special election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, of sexual harassment in a series of events that occurred more than 30 years ago has put this race into limbo. With the December […] Read more »
Suburban Uprising
Perhaps one of the more concerning aspects of the 2017 election in Virginia is the clear signal it sends about GOP troubles in the ‘burbs – urban suburbs to be more precise. It was not just in Northern Virginia that Republican candidates experienced a suburban rejection, but also in the […] Read more »