We don’t often see a runoff in a general election, but if Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith were to lose Mississippi’s Senate runoff on Tuesday, after the two Republican candidates combined to win a sizable majority of the initial vote, that would be even more unusual. CONT. Geoffrey Skelley, FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Navigator Research: Americans Want the New Congress to Provide a Check on the White House
… This survey confirms what was found in the election-night exit polls: more voters meant to express opposition to Trump (43%) than support (29%). That gap widens slightly when the contrast is framed as a “check and balance” (46%) versus support for Trump (27%). … As Democrats seek to set their […] Read more »
The lesson of 2018 for Democrats is not that they need a more moderate message for rural voters
… We’re now firmly in the analysis phase of the 2018 midterm elections, an election cycle in which Democrats slightly overperformed expectations in the House while seeing a net loss in the Senate, winning two-thirds of the contested Senate seats. One of the central questions for the party centers on […] Read more »
Cindy Hyde-Smith still favored in Mississippi Senate runoff despite controversies
The Mississippi Senate runoff was expected to be a quiet finale to the 2018 election season but instead has turned into a nationally watched affair. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments about attending a “public hanging,” along with a series of other controversies, have led to critical media coverage and several […] Read more »
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?
Kristin Olsen, who until 2016 led the Republican caucus in California’s state assembly, surveyed the wreckage of the recent midterms in her state and came to a bitter conclusion: “The Grand Old Party is dead,” she wrote in an op-ed. Olsen, 44, told NBC News that Republicans had already struggled […] Read more »
Was it a wave election? Depends on your data set
As the final 2018 election results trickle in, analysts and social media commentators have turned their attention to assessing the damage. Namely, was 2018 a “wave” election or not. Both sides of the “wave or no wave” debate have dug into their positions and both have some data to use […] Read more »