In The News: Department of Political Science
Legal challenges and accusations of fraud are just a couple of the issues seeding doubt about a clear winner in the presidential race on Election Day.
It’s virtually certain that former Vice President Joe Biden will carry New York’s 29 Electoral College votes, but New Yorkers voting for him still face a potentially major decision: The Working Families Party has been putting out a media blitz encouraging people to vote for Biden on their ballot line instead of the Democratic Party’s, in an effort to maintain the third party’s ballot line.
The battle for control of the Senate loomed over the Supreme Court confirmation process of Amy Coney Barrett, firing up lawmakers from both parties even if the final, mostly party-line vote to confirm her was a forgone conclusion.
Voters will be electing dozens of judges to the bench in this election and although much of the focus is on the big races, there are key judicial decisions to be made on the ballot this year.
In 2020, the sleeping giant has awakened.
A new poll shows Joe Biden leading in Nevada but both campaigns continue to run hard there, as the Democratic presidential nominee’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, held rallies in the state and President Trump made plans to appear just across the border in Arizona.
If any single category of voter has come to define the chaotic race for 2020, it is the American suburbanite.
If any single category of voter has come to define the chaotic race for 2020, it is the American suburbanite.
2016 might feel like the distant past. Yet, Pennsylvania voters are little changed in their party registrations from four years ago, records show.
Growing up in Canton, a small city in northeast Ohio, Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) spent much of her childhood at the local Jewish Community Center, where she swam and worked as a lifeguard. Her mother also taught swimming lessons there, and several of Lee’s seven siblings worked as lifeguards.
In 2016, nearly all major metropolitan areas voted for Hillary Clinton, including the counties that generate nearly two-thirds of the U.S. economy. In 2018, voters in the nation’s big blue metros returned Democrats to the majority in the House and drove the party’s senate pick-ups in Arizona and Nevada. They also secured gubernatorial victories in several other states. Suburbs in particular played an outsized role in the blue shift.
In 2016, nearly all major metropolitan areas voted for Hillary Clinton, including the counties that generate nearly two-thirds of the U.S. economy. In 2018, voters in the nation’s big blue metros returned Democrats to the majority in the House and drove the party’s senate pick-ups in Arizona and Nevada. They also secured gubernatorial victories in several other states. Suburbs in particular played an outsized role in the blue shift.
