… Democrats wanted this election to be about more than just winning the House or the Senate. They wanted 2018 to be a total rebuke of Trump. A wipe out of epic proportions all across the country. That didn’t happen. What we saw instead was more of a retrenchment. Red […] Read more »
What 2018 Elections Could Tell Us About The 2020 Presidential Map
President Trump claimed some personal victories in the 2018 midterm results, and as he ticked them off at a press conference on Wednesday he might as well have been walking through the Electoral College map for 2020. … As the president and his political advisers map out a strategy to […] Read more »
2018 Election Recap: It Ain’t Over Yet!
… Whether they land on the pro or con side, Americans are thinking, talking, and doing politics much more since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Trump’s ubiquity is, in general, a massive liability for his party—given the state of the economy, the Republican House majority would […] Read more »
How Did Latinxs Vote in the Mid-Terms?
In the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, President Donald Trump ignored the pleas of his advisers to focus on the economy and instead chose to center immigration in his campaign messaging. … With many calling Trump’s messaging overtly anti-Latinx, all eyes were on Latinx voters as Americans cast […] Read more »
Governors: Geography is Destiny – Part I
It is a rare cycle in which both parties step back the morning after the election, survey the landscape of the same set of races, and walk away happy with the results. When it comes to Governors races, Democrats are happy to add to their numbers. They started the cycle […] Read more »
The Suburbs — All Kinds Of Suburbs — Delivered The House To Democrats
Throughout this election cycle, FiveThirtyEight and others wondered where Democrats could pick up House seats: Would it be in the 13 districts that Mitt Romney carried in 2012 but Hillary Clinton won in 2016? Or would it be in the 21 districts that Barack Obama carried in 2012 but Donald […] Read more »