Three house races, two gubernatorial races, and one Senate race are shifted towards Democrats in our latest ratings update.
Sarah Stook ranks America’s First Ladies from Eleanor Roosevelt to Melania Trump.
Elections Daily, a leading election news and forecasting website, has launched the first major update to The Election Shuffler tool.
Massachusetts GOP chairman Jim Lyons has overseen the decline of a party that once punched well above its weight.
Rhode Island’s Gubernatorial race moves onto the board for Republicans, but NH-02 slips back to Likely Democratic.
NY-18, NY-19, and NY-22 will be key battleground districts in November, with Republicans hoping to cushion a new majority.
In this episode, Eric Cunningham, Joe Szymanski, and Dylan Wade discuss the Alaska special election, the pros and cons of the new ranked-choice voting system, and the recent struggles of Peter Thiel’s candidates.
Ranked-choice voting’s first experiment in Alaska was far from a disaster, but it also didn’t quite meet the goals that advocates have argued.
Alaska’s final count for the House special election begins tonight, with two Republicans and a Democrat vying for office.
Approval voting could provide all of the benefits of ranked-choice voting, with less of the Alaska-specific downsides.