Trump also captured the support of those who stayed home on Nov. 5 Caroline Soler and Brian Schaffner - August 27, 2025 But nonvoters in the last election still preferred Democrats in down-ballot races.
Who has a policy that would benefit you? More voters say Trump. Jan Zilinsky, Christopher Schwarz, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker - November 2, 2024 Fewer voters say this of Harris – a challenge for Clinton in 2016 but not Biden in 2020.
Did amateur candidates cost Republicans the U.S. Senate? Carlos Algara and Byengseon Bae / Managing Editor - December 7, 2022 A lot of amateurs ran for the Senate this year and lost. Here’s what you need to know.
Rich people who own newspapers can shift elections. Israel shows how. Nikita Lalwani - December 5, 2022 Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper moved Israeli voters to the right. Could a similar newspaper shift votes in a U.S. swing state?
What Mary Peltola’s win in Alaska may mean for Indian country Elise Blasingame - September 12, 2022 Rep.-elect Peltola joins the U.S. House of Representatives this week and is on the ballot again in November.
How did a bipartisan group of senators agree on new gun measures? Sarah Binder - June 13, 2022 Three factors made this incremental breakthrough possible
More women than men serve in Nevada’s state legislature. How did that happen? Noah Haynes and Jordan Butcher - December 23, 2021 When women run for office, they win at the same rates that men do. The key is encouraging them to run.
Few people are expected to vote in this year’s ‘off-cycle’ elections. That can be fixed. Zoltan L. Hajnal, Vladimir Kogan, and G. Agustin Markarian - August 29, 2021 Holding state and local elections in even years — alongside national elections — means that voters more accurately represent the cities they live in
Why Republicans haven’t abandoned Trumpism Pippa Norris - February 8, 2021 Parties can and do change. But these four barriers stand between the Republican Party and moderation.
Had LGBT voters stayed home, Trump might have won the 2020 presidential election Gabriele Magni, Andrew R. Flores, and Andrew Reynolds - November 30, 2020 In 2020, more U.S. voters identified as LGBT than ever before. Here’s where it mattered most.