Despite the recent redraw of North Carolina’s congressional maps, the state remains gerrymandered to a degree and the maps will again have to be redrawn in a few years. Using the 2016 Voting District lines from Dave’s Redistricting App, I’ve drawn a map that could be used as a baseline for the 2022 redraw.
The House of Representatives, the less formal house of Congress, always seems to have races that people decide to not…
On December 12th, 2019, the United Kingdom has an early general election where the opposition Labour Party was resoundingly defeated in favor of a Conservative majority. However, the more interesting result came from Scotland where the SNP (Scottish National Party) won a large majority of the seats to Westminster. This has raised the question about whether Scotland wanted to gain independence from the United Kingdom, or was this just a result of the first past the post system.
The politics of CA-25 change direction much like the Santa Ana winds shift through the canyons and mountain passes: warm…
For Democrats, there remains an inconvenient and harsh truth that many in the party have neglected to face: despite the increased attention the party is giving the region, there is a distinct possibility that Trump could do even better with this group in 2020.
When pundits talk about the 2018 midterms, two dominant storylines often emerge: the Democratic gains in the House of Representatives,…
Mark Meadows shocked the political world today when he announced he would not be running for another term as representative…
Maryland’s 6th congressional district, spanning from Maryland’s conservative panhandle into liberal Montgomery County, elected Democrat David Trone by a margin of 21 points in the 2018 midterm election.
For the longest time Central Pennsylvania, and Lancaster County especially has been one of the most politically inelastic areas in the nation and has been considered a bedrock of Pennsylvania conservatism. That wisdom is beginning to change though, and Democrats have begun to feel that they might have their best ever chance in the county.
There have been a lot of stories about voter purges in the news. Why do voters get purged, and how…