After New Hampshire, presidential candidates face a steady procession of primaries and caucuses leading up to the Republican National Convention in July, when the party's delegates will officially select their nominee. Here's what comes next after the Granite State: What are the Republican primaries...
The only real contests in 2020 are on the Democratic side. President Trump has no challengers who are polling with any significance, and some states, including Nevada, Alaska, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Arizona, aren't holding Republican primary contests at all. How does the Democratic...
Getting home gradually took over my life: flights filled, a computer shut down and wifi went out. I had to look for flights out of neighboring states, trains and busses, any type of transportation to get myself home. Three days later I had a flight out of Kansas City and a promised ...
A few weeks ago, Kansas University men’s basketball player Brannen Greene dunked the basketball just before time expired in a contest against rival Kansas State. Before the dunk, the KU Jayhawks were winning by 16. (You can watch it here.) KU head coach Bill Self called it “totally clas...
Who will have control of the House and Senate? Going into the midterms, the Republicans have control of both houses of Congress. Democrats are hoping that through a few critical elections they're able to shift the balance of power in one or both houses. (MORE: It's Democrats +8 in lik...
the Whigs’ case, the issue was slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed new states and territories to decide whether they would be slave or free, pitted Northern and Southern Whigs against one another. That divide, in turn, spurred the formation of the Republican Party. A ...