Washington (CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is expanding his efforts to unseat sitting Senate Republicans in primaries next year.Source: Bannon expands his list of Senate Republican targets for 2018...
Data scientists Vinad Bakthavachalam and Jake Fuentes have published this study of the electoral college. They estimate that in future U.S.Source: New Study Says Future Presidential Elections Are More Likely to Result in a Split Between Popular Vote Winner and Electoral College Winner...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has become the latest Silicon Valley giant to become entangled in a widening investigation into how online social networks and technology products may have played a role in Russian interference in the 2016 election.Source: Google Prepares to Brief Congress on Its Role in Election...
Governor Brown signed SB 568, which moves all of California’s partisan primaries from June to the first week in March, in midterm years as well as presidential years. The change is effective after 2018.Source: California’s Shift to a March Primary Likely Dooms Top-Two System...
The new national registration totals for the United States, in the 32 jurisdictions in which the voter registration form asks the applicant to choose a party, are: Democratic 44,706,349 (40.30%) Republican 32,807,417 (29.57%) independent & misc. 30,818,334 (27.78%) Libertarian 511,277 (.Source: New Registration Data for the United States...
For a race that will have essentially no impact on the balance of power in Congress, next week’s special election in Georgia’s 6th District has taken on unprecedented national significance, with political observers looking to the contest as a potential harbinger of what’s to come in 2018.Source: The Georgia Election Is Supposed to Be a Trumpcare Referendum. No One Told...
Bozeman, Montana (CNN)Republican candidate Greg Gianforte was considered the favorite heading into Montana's special election Thursday night to replace Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, but that was before the Republican allegedly "body slammed" a reporter during his final campaign event in Bozeman WSource: In Montana's special, it's time to count the votes...
It’s no secret that the state of the nation’s economy and party identification matter in most American presidential elections. Candidates know it, consultants know it, political scientists know it, and voters seem aware of the relationship, too.Source: The Ways That the 2016 Election Was Perfectly Normal...
