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Elections Of 2018
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May 16, 2018
Red State Republicans Are Trying to Trump Each Other’s Trumpiness GOP candidates for governor of Georgia are tripping over each other to sound like Trump on “the swamp” and sanctuary cities.
May 1, 2018
What the Midterms Would Look Like If Clinton Had Won The silver lining of Trump’s presidential win for Democrats is that their party is facing a good, not a potentially disastrous, midterm election.
Mar. 1, 2018
Early Voting Among Texas Democrats Is Off the Charts It’s a sign of superior enthusiasm, not any guarantee of success in November, but it confirms Democrats have a wind at their backs.
Feb. 27, 2018
Trump Being Trump Seems to Make Him Less Popular The GOP has an unusually acute problem in mobilizing a party base that glories in Trumpian outrages, without frightening the rest of the country.
Dec. 15, 2017
Kansas Democrat Is First Female Political Casualty of the ‘Reckoning’ An old company settlement with a man alleging sexual harassment brought down the promising congressional candidacy of Andrea Ramsey.
Dec. 14, 2017
The GOP’s Biggest Problem Is Not Its Candidates, But Its President Trump can’t accept that he is damaging his party down-ballot. And that could send his party off in search of illusory “fixes.”
Aug. 3, 2017
West Virginia’s Marginally Democratic Governor Flips to the GOP In a surprise timed to coincide with a Trump appearance in his state, Jim Justice switched parties, giving the GOP 34 governorships — for the moment.
Aug. 1, 2017
The GOP’s Latest Health-Care Gambit This last-gasp effort at a GOP-only bill mostly gives states the flexibility to cut health-care services, while threatening insurance-market chaos.
Mar. 27, 2017
Health-Care Debacle Further Depresses Trump’s Already-Low Approval Ratings The president is finding himself so deep in negative territory that it could really damage his party in 2018.
