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These Numbers From Tennessee Reveal Republicans’ Predicament

It is certainly true that the results of last Tuesday’s special congressional election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional ...
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Trump’s Pardon of Cuellar Shifts Rating From Toss Up to Lean Democrat

President Donald Trump has gone to extreme lengths to shore up Republicans’ tenuous hold on the House — going as far as ...
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Young Americans Hate Both Parties. They May Still Pick Democrats in 2026.

When it comes to politics, Gen Z generally hates everyone and everything. But they may still be primed to deliver for ...
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Republicans’ Florida Feud May Fall Short of Fireworks

Don’t break out the popcorn just yet.The 2026 Republican primary for Florida’s top job, long billed as a potential proxy war ...
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Massachusetts’ Markey Faces Generational Primary Test — But Not the One He Feared

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is breathing a sigh of relief after Rep. Ayanna Pressley — who would have posed a serious ...
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Can Republicans Turn Things Around?

By almost every metric — including Democrats’ big November wins and their consistent double-digit special election ...
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The Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)

What do the scores mean? A Cook PVI score of D+2, for example, means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the state or district performed about two points more Democratic in terms of ...
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Democrats Overperform but Come Up Short in Hotly-Contested TN-07 Special Election

Democrats continued their streak of special election overperformances in Tennessee Tuesday night — but not by enough to pull ...