Like we've donemany timesbefore, 538 decided to aggregate these positions to see how often each member of Congress voted with or against Biden on these key votes. On the whole, the data painted a picture of deep partisan divides in Congress, with the outcomes of most votes hewing closely ...
How many Electoral College votes does each state have? The number of Electoral College votes each state gets is equal to its total number of U.S. senators and representatives in Congress. This means each state gets at least three, while states with larger populations get more. The District o...
Washington— The2024 New Hampshire primaryon Tuesday hadjust two Republican candidates competingfor the state's relatively small yet influential pool of GOP delegates. While the number of delegatesat stake in New Hampshiremight pale in comparison to larger states, theresultswill influence the shape of...
Congress did not always receive a gold-plated pension. Before 1942, members of Congress did not receive a taxpayer-funded retirement plan. This early system was quickly scrapped after public outcry, however. Apensionwas put into place after World War II and eventually replaced by FERS in th...
David Bahnsen, managing partner and chief investment officer at The Bahnsen Group, says the historically best-case scenario for stock price performance is when there is mixed control between the presidency and one or both houses of Congress, an outcome which appears highly likely in 2024. ...
Themembers of the U.S. Senate-confirmed FRBare considered an independent agency of the federal government.4The Fed has a statutory mandate to maximum employment and stable prices at moderate long-term interest rates, and the FRB chair and other officials frequently testify before Congress. However...
“Donald Trump’s Sentencing Lays Bare the Injustice of Felony Disenfranchisement; In many states, the president-elect would now be ineligible to vote in the election he just won”:Madiba K. Dennie hasthis essayonline at Balls and Strikes. ...
In June 2023, the United States Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. Nevertheless, the ruling allows colleges to consider race on an individual basis, which is one reason many schools are now including diversity prompts as one of their supplemental essay ...
Applying an array of quasiexperimental designs, proponents of causal inference approaches to studying American politics are setting their sights on the study of Congress. In many ways, that focus makes sense, improved research design allows us to draw stronger analytical inferences from observational ...
Just one secretary of state candidate who fully denied the results of the 2020 election won his race — Chuck Gray in Wyoming, who called the 2020 election “clearly rigged.” At the same time, more than 100 members of Congress who refused to accept the results of the last national ...