The Daily Kos Elections guide to the nation's ancestries and origins, by...
Donald Trump’s July 14 tweets telling four women of color who are House members to “go back and help fix the … places from which they came” may be remembered as one of the defining moments of his...
View ArticleHow do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?...
Counties are the familiar building blocks of American civic life: Their shapes tend toward the reasonably regular, and they very rarely change over time, making it fairly easy for most folks to pick...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Elections naming guide to the nation's congressional districts
Outside of the U.S., many countries give their electoral districts helpful names that tell you where they’re located, in contrast to the United States’ prosaic, utilitarian system that yields bland,...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Elections county-by-county guide to watching the NC-09 special...
The 116th Congress is one-third over, but we’re still tying up the last loose end from the 2018 midterms. That’s tonight’s special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, where a...
View ArticleThe number of House members in districts of different ethnicities than their...
Not only did the 2018 midterms usher in the most diverse Congress in U.S. history, it also swelled the ranks of an intriguing—and important—group of elected officials: members of the House who...
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Most 2018 pickups were in well-educated and/or diverse districts, and that'll...
A million news stories may have already dislodged it from your memories, but think back to September, to the special election that happened in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. In a...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Elections county-by-county guide to the Kentucky and...
Tuesday is Election Day in a wide variety of states, and two of the biggest races to watch will be the gubernatorial contests in Kentucky and Mississippi. In Kentucky, unpopular GOP Gov. Matt Bevin is...
View ArticleWashington measure to restore affirmative action trails but could still pass...
Voters in Washington weighed in on two significant ballot measures this week, but given the state’s notoriously slow-to-count vote-by-mail system, neither has been decided yet, and we may not know the...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Elections parish-by-parish guide to the Louisiana gubernatorial...
There’s one contest left in the 2019 election season, and it’s a big one: the race for Louisiana governor, where Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards is seeking a second term. Pre-election polls show...
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How did Andy Beshear fall below his benchmarks but still win? By running up...
Before Matt Bevin began his slink back toward obscurity, he made a big show of raising bogus suspicions about the circumstances of his narrow loss in last month’s election for Kentucky governor. Even...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos guide to the Iowa caucuses
After a more than year-long slog on the campaign trail, we’re finally here! It’s time for the Iowa caucuses, which means … well, very possibly an indecisive result that may be just the first step in...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos guide to the New Hampshire primary
We’re on to milepost two of the long march to the Democratic presidential nomination: the New Hampshire primary. Will it be less of a cluster than the Iowa caucus? There’s pretty much no way it...
View ArticleHow similar is each state to every other? Daily Kos Elections' State...
With Iowa having pretty much immolated its long-standing first-in-the-nation status—not just through its incompetent administration of this year’s Democratic caucus, but also the deeply problematic...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos guide to the Nevada caucuses
What happens in Vegas … probably doesn’t have a huge impact outside of Vegas, except maybe from the perspective of expectations-setting going into Super Tuesday, when the prizes in the more-populous...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos guide to the South Carolina primary
The next step of the Democratic presidential nomination process is the South Carolina primary, and it gives us something new: a chance for Joe Biden to get back into the thick of things. The reason is...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos guide to Super Tuesday
The biggest day of the Democratic primary campaign schedule is upon us: Super Tuesday. Primaries are being held in the nation’s two most populous states, California and Texas, in addition to some other...
View ArticleDaily Kos guide to Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and...
We’re entering crunch time in the Democratic primary season, with six more states ready to go on Tuesday, several of which are quite large. While it’s nowhere near as big a deal, delegate-wise, as...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Guide to the Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio primaries
Wait, are we still doing this thing? Huh, well, I guess we are. But if things in the Democratic primary season were looking pretty done by the end of last Tuesday, they’ll be looking really done by the...
View ArticleCalifornia's property tax revolt may finally get rolled back as activists...
A potentially game-changing ballot measure in California is now likely to go before voters in November: Supporters of the so-called “split roll” initiative, which would dramatically alter the property...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Elections county-by-county guide to the Wisconsin Supreme Court...
On Monday evening, we’re expecting the somewhat-delayed results for last Tuesday’s pivotal state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Since that’s the main event to watch as results come in, starting 4...
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