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Despite not much media attention, Elizabeth Warren surges into 2nd nationally in at least one poll

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Even with Joe Biden’s entry to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination being the subject of most of the media coverage of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in recent days, Elizabeth Warren…

With nearly all votes now counted in the 2024 presidential election, it’s now even more apparent how close the outcome was. While Donald Trump was able to pull off a sweep of the swing states, he didn’t win by much at all. A few columnists and reporters have put together retrospectives challenging the narrative that Trump and many of his apologists in the media are trying to peddle. First up, we…

Many Democratic strategists, activists, and voters thought that the 2024 presidential election would be similar to the 2016 and 2020 elections: the key to beating a deeply unpopular Donald Trump was finding the right candidate. In other words, the Democrats just needed to not blow it. After all, Trump famously won in 2016 because Hillary Clinton was nearly as unpopular as he was. However, this…

If you go to the website of any national or international media outlet this morning — The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, the BBC, and so on — you’ll see big headlines talking about Donald Trump’s apparent sweep of all of the battleground states. Yes, all seven of them: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. Several…

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time; but there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, continuously rule, and that public…

With today being one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States, we’re pleased to welcome you to our first-ever general election day liveblog! Throughout the day and into the evening, I’ll share comments and observations on what our team is seeing locally, regionally, and nationally as the voting in this critically important presidential election draws to a close and the…

More evidence has landed that Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz are poised to win Washington and Oregon with ease this autumn. In a pair of surveys completed today for the Northwest Progressive Institute by Public Policy Polling, the Democratic ticket enjoys comfy leads over Donald Trump and JD Vance in Washington and Oregon, two states that have been reliably voting for…

To coincide with the beginning of this year’s presidential election voting period, Cascade PBS has elected to commission a special survey from pollster Stuart Elway looking at the key races on this year’s statewide ballot. The survey, published today, is remarkable in two respects: (a) it fielded in October, when Elway doesn’t usually do electoral research, and (b) it was a poll of likely voters…