Primaries will be held today in several states, including a number with competitive Senate (Pennsylvania and North Carolina) and gubernatorial (Pennsylvania) races. All involve intra-party ideological fights. The following are useful roundups from Politico, Vox, Fox,… Continue reading

As a proponent of competitive districts, I’m often asked how much the decline in competitive districts is due to intentional gerrymandering versus the realities of political geography, in which metro areas have become highly Democratic and rural areas highly Republican.… Continue reading

When the main elections that matter are the primaries — from Politico: House Democratic primaries are drawing record cash — even as they’re almost guaranteed to lose their majority. Super PACs and other organizations have already dropped more than… Continue reading

New study from Sandy Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Andrew B. Hall. Abstract: U.S. state legislatures are critical policymaking bodies and the major pipeline of candidates to national office. Polarization in state legislatures has increased substantially in recent… Continue reading

Editorial: According to current polling, the winner of the Republican primary for Pennsylvania Governor will receive less than a third of the vote. And on the U.S. Senate side, no major poll has a single candidate winning more than a… Continue reading

NYT: President Biden’s legal team is laying the groundwork to defend against an expected onslaught of oversight investigations by congressional Republicans, should they take one or both chambers in the midterm elections — including preparing for the possibility of… Continue reading

Star Tribune: Several members of Minnesota’s Grassroots Legalize Cannabis Party are pushing to change its name to the Constitutional Liberty Party, a direct response to allegations that conservatives recruited marijuana candidates to act as spoilers to Democrats in… Continue reading

Just a reminder if you have a pitch or comment on a week when someone else is the primary ELB blogger, please send your messages directly to them rather than me. You can find people’s pages with their email addresses… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman urged Wisconsin lawmakers in March to strongly consider rescinding the state’s electoral votes for President Joe Biden — an idea that scholars call legally preposterous.On Tuesday, he presented a different… Continue reading

Politico reports.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin’s election system would be dismantled under dramatic plans that Republican candidates for governor are crafting to appeal to the party’s base, much of which believes former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud in the last… Continue reading

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Politico: The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed five Republican congressmen, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan.The subpoenas target some of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies in the House, several of whom were engaged in… Continue reading

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