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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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↵↵Texas two-step: Candidate filing closed this week in the Lone Star State, where elections are being reshaped by redistricting, retirements and realignments.
Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.
Eight Democrat-held seats are considered vulnerable, according to Inside Elections’ initial ratings.
According to the preliminary numbers, 36 percent of voters said they identified as Republicans, where Republicans have been in 10 of the prior 19 elections from 1984 forward.
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Second, elections are won in the middle.
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates the 34th District race Solid Democratic.
The majority they captured in 2010 held until the 2018 midterm elections, when Democrats captured the House but not the Senate in President Donald Trump’s first midterm election.
While the historical midterm trend for the president’s party is ominous in House elections, it’s more mixed in Senate races.
Staying in the House: Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay in her job though the midterm elections at least, “extending her nearly 20-year run as the House’s top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps
“In order to gain influence with American politicians and candidates, they illegally funneled foreign money into the 2018 midterm elections with an eye toward making huge profits in the cannabis business
ANALYSIS — Political observers all know the party holding the White House tends to fare poorly during the midterm elections.
The proposal reflected the change in control of the House, where Republicans had broken the Democrats’ 40-year majority in the 1994 midterm elections.
Most partisan waves take place during midterm elections (e.g., 1958, 1966, 1974, 1994, 2006, 2010 and 2018).
That makes the state “competitive” in most elections, putting Florida in a different category than, say, Indiana and West Virginia.
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
The National Rifle Association went into the 1994 midterm elections with a plan: Target politicians who had voted for that year’s crime bill.
The last time Congress passed each individual appropriations bill before the fiscal year’s end was 1994.
If you want to know how Republicans will campaign in the 2018 midterm elections, you don’t have to wait.