Republicans turned out for theIowa caucusesin historic numbers Monday night, smashing its 2012 record by a wide margin. By the end of Monday night, the state's Republican party had counted over 180,000 people that participated in the Iowa caucus. The numbers blew past 2012's record, when ...
While some lawmakers believe Ocasio-Cortez already has a leg up over Connolly, many Oversight panel members stayed officially neutral. Still, they spoke positively about the leadership shifts. “There’s a little bit of a generational thing happening in the caucus,” said Rep.Shontel Brown(D-Ohi...
Trump aggressively sought to overturn his loss in Georgia in 2020, creating self-inflicted legal turmoil for the former president and a slew of Republicans in the state who participated in those efforts. Trump’s grudges against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and ...
The error is calculated based on the margin separating the top two finishers in the election — and not the top two candidates in the poll. For instance, if a certain poll had the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucus with Hillary Clinton at 32 percent, Barack Obama with 30 percent and John Edwards...
Michael Halle, a strategist on Buttigieg’s campaign, said about 50 of the campaign’s county precinct captains in Iowa were former Republicans who changed their party registration to become Democrats so they could participate in the caucuses and back the former mayor. Those exiled Republicans are...
In early 2007, the Obama brain trust realized it had little chance of besting Hillary Clinton in Iowa if traditional caucus-goers were the only ones who showed. So it resolved to expand the electorate by tens of thousands of more sympathetic Iowans–young people, liberals, independents. In ...
Like many political axioms, though, it papers over a complex reality. Yes, evangelicals represent a large slice of the electorate, especially in states that vote early in the campaign calendar. In 2012,57% of people who participated in the Iowa presidential caucusesidentified as “born agai...