Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Another health care election?
↵↵Texas two-step: Candidate filing closed this week in the Lone Star State, where elections are being reshaped by redistricting, retirements and realignments.
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18 results for "1994 midterm elections"
Meet 11 House candidates — or potential ones — who don’t fit the mold
Sonny Bono was elected as a Republican in 1994 from a Southern California seat.
The smallest initial Senate battleground ever?
Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.Â
Campaigns · 118th Congress
Senate 2024: Democrats face lopsided battlefield
Eight Democrat-held seats are considered vulnerable, according to Inside Elections’ initial ratings.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
If history’s a guide, Biden ain’t getting any stronger
And even though the 2022 midterm elections are still more than 9 months away, history tells us Biden’s job rating isn’t likely to improve and more likely will deteriorate before Election Day.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Senate ratings show three Democrats in toss-up races
While the historical midterm trend for the president’s party is ominous in House elections, it’s more mixed in Senate races.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
It’s not too early to say GOP is well positioned to take Congress
Once again, there was more than an inkling about what would happen nearly three years out from the next midterm elections.
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats push tax hikes on wealthy over infrastructure ‘user fees’
But President Joe Biden pledged not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000, and Democratic leaders are anxious to protect vulnerable members facing tough midterm challenges. Rep.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Time for Republicans to move on from term limits
Plank in 1994 ‘contract’ Republicans keep coming back to term limits, in part, because it was a plank in their Contract with America in 1994, when the GOP won the House majority for the first time
Campaigns · 116th Congress
GOP shouldn’t count its midterm chickens before they hatch
Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010 and 54 seats in 1994 during Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s first midterms as president.
Congress · 116th Congress
The outsiders: Roll Call’s people to watch in 2019
In the 2018 midterm elections, nine won state legislature seats, five won in city councils, seven were elected to school boards, and seven more received various political appointments.
Opinion · 116th Congress
House Republicans came back from being written off before. They can again
OPINION — Through much of 2018 and especially in the weeks following the midterm elections, many opinion writers and other political pundits enthusiastically declared the Republican Party dead or at least
Politics · 115th Congress
America Is at a Midterm Crossroads.
Next week’s elections will not only determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill but also will seal the fate of the Trump administration’s legislative agenda for the next two years and set the landscape
Politics · 115th Congress
A Democratic Majority Could Milk Trump’s Trade Pact
The Trump administration included provisions in the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico to win Democratic support, but if the midterm elections hand Democrats the majority in either the House or Senate
Politics · 115th Congress
Chuck Schumer Navigates the Resistance
Whether the progressives’ irritation builds into something more threatening to Schumer’s leadership could hinge on how much, if any, momentum the party’s left wing sees in the midterm elections and
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: It’s Too Soon to Bet the Ranch on the Midterms
Not being a gambler, I hesitate to give advice, but maybe the bookmakers can kick off their newly won legal status with the 2018 congressional elections.
Politics · 115th Congress
Shelby Expected to Assume Appropriations Panel at Prime Time
The last time Congress passed each individual appropriations bill before the fiscal year’s end was 1994.
Policy · 115th Congress
Senate Republicans Steamroll Judicial Process
It’s safe to say that Democrats, if they retake control of the Senate in the midterm elections, would boldly reassert the legislative branch’s role — largely by revoking its consent.