On November 3, 2010, the morning after his party lost sixty-three House seats, Barack Obama stood at a White House podium and called it a shellacking. He didn’t recommend that future presidents take one, he said. Sixteen years later to […]
Texas’s 15th Congressional District runs from the eastern suburbs of San Antonio down to McAllen, and the Texas Tribune has called it Republicans’ greatest success story with Texas Latino voters. Monica De La Cruz won it by fourteen points in […]
On Sunday, two days before the vote, the national numbers look like a switchover in progress. Emerson’s last October poll has Democrats ahead on the generic House ballot 52 to 42, up from 44 percent support fifteen months ago, with […]
Montana’s Senate seat wasn’t supposed to be open. On March 4, Sen. Steve Daines withdrew from his reelection race and endorsed Kurt Alme, the U.S. attorney for Montana, who then took 77 percent in the June primary. Seth Bodnar, the […]
In 1946, Earl Warren ran for reelection as governor of California and won the Republican primary. He also won the Democratic primary. On the general election ballot, he was effectively unopposed by either party. A 1913 law, written under Hiram […]
In 1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed the United Colonies of New England. Each colony sent two commissioners, and any decision needed six of the eight votes. The confederation handled what no single colony could, chiefly defense […]
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