Underweighting the importance of partisanship, especially in races with incumbents.A series of deeply red states with Democratic incumbent senators — Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia — presented a challenge for our model this year. On the one hand, these states had voted ...
Just as was true when numerous Senators from both parties sold stocks in COVID-related industries before the pandemic began — raising questions about whether they had advance knowledge of what was coming through classified briefings — watching Nancy Pelosi’s wealth skyrocket by millions of dollars...
Electors are allocated based on how many representatives a state has in the House of Representatives, plus its two senators. The District of Columbia gets three, despite the fact that the home to Congress has no vote in Congress. Advertisement ...
the average Democratic senator* voted with Biden 99 percent of the time. Most of the dissent came from just a handful of senators, many of whom are
Womack predicted that pent-up frustration back home might show his party the way out of the crisis, with voters and business leaders calling up their members to say: “‘Damn it, Congress, get your work done. Get this behind you.” Senators in both parties had envisioned potential breakthrou...
While many Americans struggle to save forretirement, elected representatives and senators in the United States Congress receive substantial pension benefits for life. Though Congressional retirement pay is not typically a big election-year issue, it might serve as evidence of a disconnect between la...
The Senate model uses almost all the same factors for incumbents, but there are some subtle differences given that senators face election once every six years instead of once every other year. For instance, previous victory margin is less reliable in Senate races; that’s because a longer time...
So, how many Republicans are going to listen to their actual supporters and join this boycott? Very few names are popping up, ready to criticize Bud Light for their woke move. Except for one. From Daily Wire: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Bud Light on Monday evening, saying that ...
Bernie Sanders and other senators have introduced theTax Excessive CEO Pay Act, that would increase tax rates on companies with a pay ratio higher than 50 to 1. To prevent skewing the numbers when a CEO takes an incredibly low salary—like Elon Musk at Tesla—the law actually targets the ...
The vice president would be selected by a simple majority in the Senate, and all senators would have a vote. As a result, it's possible that the president and vice president could be from different parties. Since the 12th Amendment was ratified in 1804, there have been contingent elections...