Grace is the Center's Gender and Race Researcher and studies the intersection of gender and race of federal candidates and how it affects campaign fundraising, among other things.Source: Democratic women outraise men among female donors — another record-breaking first...
Drawing on her years of military experience, Maureen Heard was careful to follow all the rules when she filled out an absentee ballot in 2016.Source: Rejection of mail-in ballots raises alarm ahead of election...
Voters are reporting odd problems on both the Republican and Democratic side of straight-party voting in Texas. Mickey Blake was one of the voters in those early voting lines in Houston earlier this week.Source: Texas voting machines changing some straight-party selectionsTags: 2018, election administration, vblog...
CINCINNATI — As the 2018 midterm campaign enters its final full week, House Republicans are rushing to fortify their defenses in conservative-leaning districts they thought were secure, pouring millions of dollars into a last-minute bid to build a new firewall against Democrats.Source: Republicans Rushing to...
It’s cliche to say that “turnout will determine the outcome of the midterms”. Of course turnout “matters”.Source: Turnout in the 2018 midterm: high turnout could stress our nation’s election infrastructure...
More than 68,000 people in Sacramento County have already voted by absentee ballot as of Tuesday and the patterns look typical of past election years.Source: Has mail-in voting changed how California’s early election returns look?...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave...
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is investing an additional $25 million in their midterms efforts, citing "an influx of contributions" from their supporters. Of that, they're giving $3.5 million each to the party's campaign arms that work on House and Senate races.Source: RNC invests additional...
@monkeycageblog has become its namesake, a blog lacking vetting of the claims put forth. Quite sad, really, since it used to showcase peer-reviewed scholarship. Case in point: this post wildly inflates the number of persons affected by GA's exact match https://t.co/3HaiS3vDfISource: About Those 900,000 Voters...
It’s been eight years since Citizens United v. FEC, and America still doesn’t have transparency about the sources of money in politics. To wit, over $100 million in dark money has been spent as of October 17, 2018, with key weeks left in the midterms.Source:...
