Across the country Tuesday night, Democrats got good news in their effort to take back the House. They advanced candidates in key races in California (after being concerned they could be shut out), put forward what party operatives see as the best candidates in suburban New Jersey, and they feel […] Read more »
Trump and women continue to shape the coming midterm campaign
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 »
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: A Primary Night For Both Parties To Be Happy About
Establishment-backed candidates did well in primaries across the country on Tuesday, and there was good news for Democrats: The party will not be shut out of any House races in California. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team gathered to react to Tuesday’s results and discuss whether there are trends among the […] 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 »