Pennsylvania: Economy, abortion shape midterm races

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman leads Mehmet Oz by five points among Pennsylvania’s likely voters, in a Senate race that seems still fluid, with Republicans less enamored by the candidates they nominated, and Democrats fighting economic headwinds. It’s a race in which voters are thinking about the national implications, even […] Read more »

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Gun policies, along with abortion, inflation and economy, are top concern for voters

Democratic candidates across the country are aiming to make abortion a frontline issue in the upcoming midterms, but gun policies ranked higher as an immediate concern for voters, according to a POLITICO-Harvard survey released Thursday. The survey asked 1,815 registered voters to say which issues were “extremely important” in their […] Read more »

From a Republican ‘tsunami’ to a ‘puddle’: Why the forecast for November is changing

It was a referendum. Now it’s a choice. For political professionals in both parties, that’s the capsule explanation for why the Democratic position in the midterm elections appears to have improved so much since summer began. When the election looked to be primarily a referendum on the performance of the […] Read more »