Tag: special election

For the better part of a century, southwestern Pennsylvania was as Democratic an area of the country as they came. Whenever a Democrat won...

When wave elections happen, more often than not seats are basically given away--either because the incumbent party nominates the wrong candidate, or the incumbent...

By around 10 p.m. Central time, it was clear beyond any doubt that Roy Moore's bid to take Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat had...

It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 24 hours for former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore and his bid to take the...

When The Washington Post published a bombshell story alleging that former Alabama chief justice and current Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore made inappropriate advances...

Just when the Republican Party was beginning to process the pounding it took in Virginia, it was sent reeling by news that put Jeff...

When Steve Bannon returned to Breitbart after being pushed out as Donald Trump's chief strategist, he publicly maintained that he saw this as a chance...

By any standard, Donald Trump is cratering. As of Friday, FiveThirtyEight pegs his average approval rating at 38.7 percent--up slightly from last week, but...

The night before the special election for Montana's sole seat in the House of Representatives saw one of the worst travesties in recent American...

For much of this week, the starkest evidence of how the Republican Party has been poisoned by Donald Trump's hostile takeover was the deafening...

The latest confirmation that Democrats have a wind at their backs came early Saturday morning. The man fighting to take the seat once occupied...

Georgia's 6th congressional district has long been considered a classic affluent suburban district in the South--that is, a district where Democrats usually get shot....

After winning a special election Susan Deschambault was scheduled to be sworn in as the newest elected Democratic state senator in Maine. Instead, when...

Due to neither Republican candidate receiving 50 percent of the vote in the September primary, Bradley Byrne and Dean Young advanced to a special...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker has been declared the winner in the New Jersey special election to fill the US Senate seat once held by...

A Twitterbomb initiated by UniteBlue is working and #VoteColbertBusch is trending on Twitter.   Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch is in a very tight race in special...