Most weeks I use this space to offer opinions and suggest answers. But after this especially chaotic and jam-packed week, sometimes questions are the best way to clarify matters. In that spirit, here are some questions on my mind.
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Gallup notes that in each of the past three midterm elections (2006, 2010, and 2014), “…there has been a falloff of about 40 million voters compared with the prior presidential election.”
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OK, it could have been worse. Republicans lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District by 627 votes out of 228,378 cast in a district with 70,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
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There was lots of talk leading up to Tuesday’s Texas primaries about a “blue wave” rolling over the Lone Star State that would signal a deep red state was turning purple in 2018, with huge implications for the Electoral College in 2020 and the House in 20...
Tuesday’s Texas primaries were supposed to show “rising Democratic enthusiasm,” in the words of National Public Radio’s Jessica Taylor, following reports that more Democrats were participating in early voting than Republicans in the state’s 15 most populo...
Talk of a Democratic midterm sweep may be premature. In recent weeks, the chance that Republicans will hold or even expand their Senate majority was boosted by two unexpected events: North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer decided to challenge Democratic incumbent...
