Showing posts with label congressional elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congressional elections. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2026

The Paradox of Competition in House Elections

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Many posts have discussed the state of Congress .  Bruce Mehlman: While overall House control is highly competitive , most individual Hou...
Monday, June 29, 2026

The Districts Are Too Damn Big

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Many posts have discussed reapportionment and redistricting .  There have long been proposals to enlarge the House , thereby creating l...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Polling Averages

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Many posts have discussed the problems of surveying public opinion in the 21st century . At Strength in Numbers, G. Elliott Morris disc...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

How Other Countries Draw Districts

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Many  posts have  discussed   reapportionment  and  redistricting  -- much in the news now because of   dueling gerrymanders in Texas and Ca...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Midcycle Redistricting

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Many  posts have  discussed   reapportionment  and  redistricting  -- much in the news now because of   looming gerrymanders in Texas and Ca...
Friday, August 22, 2025

World War G

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Many  posts have  discussed   reapportionment  and  redistricting . Laurel Rosenhall at NYT : California leaders on Thursday approved a swee...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Measuring Gerrymandering

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Many  posts have  discussed   reapportionment  and  redistricting  -- much in the news now because of looming gerrymanders in Texas and Cali...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

World War Gerrymander

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Many posts have discussed reapportionment and redistricting . Joan Biskupic on the Rucho case: The brazen partisan redistricting underway...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Change Elections

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  state of Congress . Bruce Mehlman : Voters in the U.S. and around the world are unhappy with the direc...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Frequent Power Shifts, Narrow Majorities

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Many posts have discussed the state of Congress . Bruce Mehlman :  Katherine Schaeffer at Pew: Narrow partisan divides in the House and S...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

People Dislike Congress, Like Their Own Member of Congress

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 The old saying is that voters hate Congress and love their congressman.  Still true.  Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: Fewer than four in 10 U....
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Class Inversion and House Districts

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   Stef Kight at Axios: Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats , while Republicans now represen...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

51-49

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The victory of Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.   Louis Jacobson and Yacob Reyes at PolitiFact...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

A Most Unusual Midterm

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The 2022 midterm is most unusual. The vote count will continue for many days to come, but it is clear that the Democrats have at least brok...