Interesting analysis with data from Nataniel Rakich @baseballot on the limited risk incumbents face in primary elections, even when party voters are generally unhappy with their party.
The Democratic Party’s current +55-point net favorability rating among its own members is… Continue reading
Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, and what I described yesterday as a “staggering” departure from the norm:
A correction was made on June 30,… Continue reading
Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that the 1974 FECA amendments aimed to “establish[] an independent [FEC] within… Continue reading
From NYT:
As he looks back at the defeat of former Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, the thing that keeps bothering Andrei Cherny, a onetime Democratic speechwriter and state party leader, is that he didn’t know what Ms.… Continue reading
This is from a piece at The Bulwark on developments at the DNC:
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE CONFIDENT they can retake the House in the 2026 midterms. But that optimism is increasingly clouded by fear thata blitz of legal challenges from… Continue reading
The Supreme Court granted cert. today in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC. The Court also granted the motion of the DNC to intervene in the case. Last week, Bob Bauer and I posted on this blog about the legal… Continue reading
Thanks to Justin for blogging last week. I’ll be doing that this week, so send any suggestions you might have to me. We should have important cert. decisions and orders from the Supreme Court coming down this week.
NPR’s latest report is truly a blockbuster. The SAVE system run by DHS has always been a system keeping track of the immigration status of individuals at some point in the immigration system (including after people naturalize). As the National… Continue reading
Issue One has a new interview with former Georgia State Election Board member Edward Lindsey. I raise it up mostly to highlight the exceptional set of interviews they’re amassing. As they put it: “More than 10,000 officials across the country… Continue reading
WaPo’s subhead: “A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.”
Across President Donald Trump’s administration, a creeping culture of secrecy is overtaking personnel and budget decisions, casual social… Continue reading
The NYT covers Mamdani’s electoral coalition for the primary, and the combination of new registrations and younger voters is noteworthy. The 18-24 and 25-29-year-old figures represent a particularly staggering departure from the norm.