So disaster did not strike, the worst did not happen, the shutouts feared and talked about continually ahead of Tuesday’s voting did not come to pass. Democrats awoke Wednesday and surveyed the landscape in California and elsewhere across the country and looked toward November with relief. The battle for the […] Read more »
Democrats Strengthen House Takeover Prospects in Primary Voting
Democrats enhanced their prospects for winning control of the House in Tuesday’s coast-to-coast primaries, skirting potential calamity in California and lining up likely gains in New Jersey and possible victories in Iowa and New Mexico. CONT. Carl Hulse & Jonathan Martin, New York Times Read more »
Sometimes The Parties Do Decide, After All
In the wake of the 2016 presidential nomination process, it became fashionable to talk about the declining influence of the two major U.S. political parties on their voters. That’s for pretty good reason. The Republican nomination of Donald Trump, despite his tepid support from Republican elected officials and his frequent […] Read more »
Can Democrats Press Their Home-Court Advantage?
Over the past quarter century, the unmistakable trend in American elections is toward greater alignment between the way states vote for president and the delegations they send to Congress. After Democrats’ strong night in Tuesday’s primaries, the November midterms increasingly look like a test of which party can better defend […] Read more »
‘Top-two’ fears appear overblown and women dominate in Tuesday’s primary elections
The votes are still coming in from California and will for a while at least. We can still at least initially answer the three big questions I posed on Tuesday about California and the other seven states with primaries. CONT. Harry Enten, CNN Read more »
California Results Are Consistent With a Competitive House Race
The results of the California top-two primary elections on Tuesday won’t be final for weeks, but the initial returns offer a useful if rough indicator of the general election. Over all, the results were in line with national expectations for November: a competitive, if perhaps Democratic-tilting, race for the House. […] Read more »