Sigh. NYT, please interview: 1. Black (Southern) voters 2. Angie Nixon who almost won in Florida 3. Muslim Michigan voters on Abdul's historic victory 4. Black and Jewish Michigan voters who voted for Abdul 5. White Gen Z men who went from GOP to Dem 6. White women going 52% for Dems *at last*
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In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.
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Democrats triumph in US governor elections after wins in key states
Party sees historic victories with Gina Hinojosa’s win in Texas and Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming first Black female governor in US
New York City cast vote record: An initial analysis of the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary - FairVote
This post explores the New York City cast vote record released July 24 – showing how voters used their rankings in the primary.
We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much.
The Post is publishing results of its Kansas Senate poll in the interest of transparency and to highlight the challenges the poll faced.
‘A win the size of Texas’: Democrats celebrate shrinking Republican dominance in a big state
Voters watched results in near disbelief as James Talarico claimed victory in Senate race and Gina Hinojosa was elected state’s first Latina governor
Preliminary ranked choice voting results in Alaska’s 2026 elections - FairVote
On November 3, Alaskans went to the polls in critical ranked choice voting elections for Congress, governor, and state legislature.
Opinion | Trump and the Democrats: 13 Black Democratic Voters Discuss
The group discusses Donald Trump, America today and the future of the Democratic Party.
Voter Turnout Highest in Half Century as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate
More than 2 million New York voters cast ballots, the most in a mayoral race since 1969.
Midterm elections 2026: list of historic firsts, diverse winners - Fast Company
From the first Muslim American U.S. senator to the first Native American woman governor, American voters set a long list of precedents on Tuesday.
Michigan Senate debate: Fact-checks of El-Sayed, Rogers
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, and his Republican opponent Mike Rogers, a former U.S. House representative, met for the first time in an Oct. 8 debate, with each candidate trying to drag down the other through a series of personal attacks that have become the trademark of their nasty campaign. In […]
Zohran Mamdani’s Electrifying Upset in NYC:#RankTheSlate – “Don’t Rank Cuomo” | Portside
So much ink (literal and virtual) has been spilled on the electrifying upset in the NYC mayoral primary race. Zohran Mamdani wins and Andrew Cuomo, the former disgraced NY governor, had to concede on election night. Every media outlet has weighed in from NY Times, to every substack, and every celebrity who supported Mamdani. This is not an analysis of Zohran’s mighty win but just a few observations from a New York City resident and more precisely someone living in Central Harlem.
Historical Voter Turnout | NYC Open Data
Nearly a quarter of NYC’s early voters were new Democratic primary participants
A total of 385,184 New Yorkers voted early in this primary election, compared to 191,197 in 2021.
Unpopular leaders punished at the polls in 2022 election
Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce were the most unpopular leaders of any party since 1987, new analysis of the 2022 federal election from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. The findings come from the joint ANUpoll/Comparative Study of Electoral Systems survey of more than 3,500 voters, which examined Australians' political attitudes before and after the 21 May vote. Study co-author Professor Ian McAllister said the findings show leaders were more important than in previous elections.
you'd think that given the election results, mainstream outlets might look for Black columnists from the south or Hispanic columnists from the southwest to explain the outcomes, rather than looking for the same conservative white men who they've been using as go tos for the past decade.
New YouGov/Economist poll out this AM has Democrats up 11 points on the House vote among likely voters. This is with named candidates, not the usual "generic ballot," which in my testing with CES data is typically more accurate in forecasting outcomes d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_SlcWd…
