Lopsided Republican electoral majorities in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin survived intact after the midterm elections, thanks to heavy partisan gerrymandering and despite the Democratic wave that flipped control of the House. No House seats changed hands in North Carolina or Ohio, even though the total votes in those states …
The 2018 midterm election looked last Tuesday like a serious but not crippling setback for Republicans, yet the picture has grown grimmer for the party since then as a more complete tally of votes has come in across the country. What looked at first like a modest Democratic majority in …
It ain’t easy going Green. Wow, the elections. I understand that in Florida people are planning recount parties that involve sitting around and drinking until January. How would you say the whole process worked? Well, it would be nice if every American had a right to vote that didn’t involve …
The Florida U.S. Senate race is still too close to call. According to unofficial results on the Florida Department of State website at 11:45 a.m. Eastern on Friday, Nov. 9, Republican Gov. Rick Scott led Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by 15,046 votes — or 0.18 percentage points. We’re watching that margin closely because …
Sure, the House is gone. But so is Jeff Sessions. Wow, Jeff Sessions was gone before they finished counting votes in Arizona. Do you think Donald Trump was trying to change the subject? Everybody knew he’d get a new attorney general after the elections, but we deserve to find out …
We hold elections so that voters can make a choice between alternatives. Therefore, the most fundamental task in counting votes is to produce a result that voters are confident is the choice that they collectively made, even if individually they preferred a different result. For the most part, American democracy …
America’s body politic has recently been scarred by excruciating political shingles, and 2018 campaigning was equivalent to acid reflux. But Tuesday’s elections indicated that some political antibodies are strengthening the nation’s immune system. Tuesday was, on balance, deflating to Democrats, who learned — or perhaps not — that despising this …
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Taxes and health care aren’t the only things on the ballot. Whatever happens in the midterms, the aftermath will be ugly. But the elections are nonetheless a fork in the road. If we take one path, it will offer at least a chance for political redemption, for recovering America’s democratic …
Let’s use this year’s elections to insist that there is still a “we” in our country. It is a “we” that crosses the lines of race and gender, country of origin and religion. “We” is the very first word of our Constitution. Declaring that it is still alive is essential to …