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“There’s widespread election fraud” = “Too many non-whites are voting”
1+ week, 4+ day ago (181+ words) Donald Trump has been complaining about some form of election “fraud” or another throughout his political career. He’s specifically been fixated on the idea that mail-in ballots are inherently fraudulent. It might not appear so on the surface, but this…...
How local progressive candidates helped statewide ones
2+ week ago (435+ words) For this, I’m focusing on the Democratic primaries in Colorado this past June, although I would imagine a similar relationship can be found in other states. What I wanted to understand was whether local progressive candidates boosted progressive votes for…...
Beshear as the electability candidate?
3+ week, 44+ min ago (424+ words) One previous version of the Beshear model was Governor Chris Christie, running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. A big part of his appeal was that he’d won repeatedly statewide in blue New Jersey. (Obama won by 18 points there in…...
Blue wave a-comin’? Maybe...
3+ week, 3+ day ago (291+ words) Shane Goldmacher reported this in the New York Times back in October of 2022: Republicans are pressing their advantage deep into Democratic territory in the closing stretch of the 2022 campaign, competing for an abundance of House seats amid growing signs that…...