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The Democrats’ Most Surprising Southern Foothold
[ad_1] The GOP controls nearly everything in Kentucky, a state that Donald Trump carried by 26 points in 2020. Republicans hold both U.S. Senate…
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A Supreme Court Ruling That Could Tip the House
[ad_1] A decade’s worth of disappointment has conditioned Black Americans and Democrats to fear voting-rights rulings from the Supreme Court. In 2013, a 5–4…
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How Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s Foundation
[ad_1] The escalating confrontation between the parties over the federal budget rests on a fundamental paradox: The Republican majority in the House of Representatives…
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Why Congress Doesn’t Work
[ad_1] Control of the House of Representatives could teeter precariously for years as each party consolidates its dominance over mirror-image demographic strongholds. That’s the…
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Feisty Joe Biden Is Back
[ad_1] It was a raucous, interactive, and argumentative State of the Union like no other. And when it was over, President Joe Biden had…
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How Democrats Avoided a Red Wave
[ad_1] The coalition of voters who turned out to oppose Donald Trump in 2018 and 2020 largely reassembled yesterday, frustrating Republican expectations of a…
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Abortion Could Define California’s Elections
[ad_1] CERRITOS, Calif.—Abortion rights dominated the message when the Democratic congressional candidate Jay Chen sent off a small group who had gathered to canvass…