Dan Levine
After a history-making 2020 and 2021, Georgia is once again on our minds with two high-profile statewide races on the ballot this November: the U.S. Senate race, a highly competitive contest between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, as well as...
That probably helps Perdue because Georgia is Republican-leaning (although becoming less so). A third-party candidate, Libertarian Amanda Swafford, would not appear on the runoff ballot. As a group, voters who hold libertarian positions are more Republican-leaning than Democratic-leaning, which ...
This year's convention is in Chicago, a Democratic stronghold that last hosted the nominating convention in 1996, when then-President Bill Clinton was running for reelection. Events will be held at two venues — the United Center, which will host speeches and other events in the evening, and ...
The Harris campaign now believes it has a renewed opportunity to compete in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia — states that Biden had started to abandon in favor of shoring up the so-called blue wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. ...
To place the Senate's undemocratic make-up into even starker terms, as Vox's Ian Millhiser observed earlier this year, after Georgia elected two Democrats to the Senate in January, "the Democratic half of the Senate will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half."...
When state lawmakers enact draconian restrictions on reproductive rights in Ohio, Georgia, Alabama and Missouri that opinion polls show are out of step with their own residents, that’s the power of gerrymandering. When Republican legislators strip emergency powers from Democratic governors, that’s ...
sarah:But OK. The two Senate races we’ve talked about so far are in states where Republicans currently have control. Let’s talk about some of their best pickup opportunities, starting with Georgia. alex:I knowsome recent pollshave given Republican Herschel Walker a slight edge over Democrat...
butthe state’s Republican governor is suingthe Democratic mayor of Atlanta over the city’s decision to revert to its most restrictive opening phase and mandate the wearing of masks. “The national conversation about how we behave during this pandemic has been so colored by the ...
Just 3 Democratic senators represent states that have not expanded Medicaid. Nonetheless, filling the Medicaid gap does have some politically powerful advocates. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia (a nonexpansion state) campaigned heavily on expanding Medicaid and is up for reelection next ...