Philadelphia 3.0 ended the week with an election round-up.
First, it notes, that youth voters seem to have tipped the election toward Fetterman: “According to data from CIRCLE at Tufts University, voters under 29 netted John Fetterman 120,000 votes of… Continue reading
Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that a Georgia Trial court has granted the Democratic Party and Warnock Campaign’s request for a declaratory judgment and injunction to allow for early voting on Saturday, November 26. Order is embedded in the article.
“Fulton… Continue reading
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14 Some of Respondents’ amici make the scurrilous suggestion that Petitioners’ interpretation would enable state legislatures to change the result of a Presidential election by replacingpopularly chosen electors with their own slate.… Continue reading
Behind its firewall, Bloomberg has an analysis of the decisive role young voters appear to have played in key Senate races, most prominently Nevada’s. The article summarizes this publicly available analysis from Circle at Tufts University.
As summarized by Bloomberg:… Continue reading
NY Times is reporting, as are other outlets, the expected news: “After more than a week of counting, the Republican Party gained the 218 House seats needed to claim the majority, ushering in an era of divided government.” There are… Continue reading
LA Times:
In the months following the Pit event, Gascón became an extraordinarily unlikely backer of some True the Vote claims, echoing in an Oct. 14 news conference the group’s allegations that Konnech stored poll worker data overseas. Ultimately,… Continue reading
Pluribus News reports that “Colorado is set to become the second state in the country where women constitute a majority in the legislature.” Nevada was the first. This milestone comes “more than 150 years after [Colorado] became the first state… Continue reading
The Georgia Democratic Party has filed a suit challenging the Secretary of State’s decision to bar counties from permitting early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Thank you to Stephen Fowler. There is a fuller article now at the Atlanta … Continue reading
Local elections obviously matter a great deal too: “Republican groups including the 1776 Project PAC, which steered millions of dollars into local school races this year amid predictions of a red wave.” AP News reports on the lay of the… Continue reading
NBC News:
“Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has defeated Republican Kari Lake in Arizona’s race for governor, NBC News projected Monday.Hobbs’ victory is key for Democrats in a presidential battleground and a rebuke to a prominent election denier… Continue reading
Some of you might be interested in this thread on Twitter with Lara Putnam analyzing the votes in Pennsylvania. Two themes are worth highlighting:
Split ticket voting is happening in Pennsylvania, and Josh Shapiro has been its beneficiary since he… Continue reading
Politico reports that “The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House’s Jan. 6 select committee to obtain the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, a key ally during Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election.”… Continue reading