It has become a familiar pattern this primary season. The day after a surprising victory by a progressive underdog — say Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Andrew Gillum of Florida, Jahana Hayes in Connecticut, Wesley Bell in Missouri or Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts — national audiences rush to meet the […] Read more »
The Economy Is Humming, but Trump Is Tweeting. Republicans Are Worried.
As Democrats enter the fall midterm campaign with palpable confidence about reclaiming the House and perhaps even the Senate, tensions are rising between the White House and congressional Republicans over who is to blame for political difficulties facing the party, with President Trump’s advisers pointing to the high number of […] Read more »
September Governors Overview
Thanks to August primaries in a handful of key races, all the pieces of this year’s gubernatorial puzzle are finally in place, and Republicans’ exposure to losses in November has increased. Republicans were already battling the trends that batter the party in power in midterm elections, and now the GOP […] Read more »
Spoiler Alert: Why Americans’ Desires for a Third Party Are Unlikely to Come True
Third parties are a perpetual fascination of American politics. Each presidential election cycle brings its own new wave of punditry calling the nation to consider whether this will be the year in which a third party finally breaks through, upending a system in which the two parties have existed in […] Read more »
The Midterm Messages That Matter
Ask any political analyst what midterm elections are about and they will respond, “midterms are almost always referenda on the incumbent president,” and the statistics bear them out. … But just how challenging a midterm election will be for a president’s party is largely determined by which party does the […] Read more »
New polls confirm the battle for control of the Senate is indeed a knife fight
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that the race for control of the Senate is so close it is like a “knife fight in an alley.” New polls released on Wednesday back him up, but also show that Republicans are still favored to maintain their control. CONT. Harry […] Read more »