Can self-proclaimed “master legislator” and “astute leader” Nancy Pelosi convince enough Democrats to make her speaker of the House again? It won’t be as easy as you might think.
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The election’s outcome feels like the end of an elementary-school soccer season.
Everyone gets a ribbon. Everybody leaves with something to brag about. A very favorable electoral map allowed Republicans to expand their lead in the Senate.
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The final week of a midterm election is always brutal. Candidates rush from event to event, staffers debate the campaign’s closing message, fundraisers scrabble for the last dollar, and volunteers beg supporters to turn out to vote.
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‘I am on the ticket because this is also a referendum about me,” President Trump said at a Mississippi rally on Oct. 2. He is correct: Every midterm election is to some degree about the Oval Office’s occupant.
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Less than three weeks until Election Day, voters are thinking most about health care, the economy, and reining in President Trump -- and Democratic candidates are benefitting.
Currently, 49 percent of likely voters back the Democratic candidate in the...
