The Good: We have divided government. Since Democrats no longer control Congress, they can’t bankrupt America quite so fast! The Bad: Prediction markets, which I touted as the best guide to elections, didn’t do so well. Yes, they correctly said Republicans would take the House, but they’d also predicted Republicans would take the Senate. Polls
One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Democrats held 235 seats in the House in 2018 as Biden launched his campaign for president. To the surprise of prognosticators, they won just a bare majority, 222, on the day he was elected in 2020. As this
“Make no mistake — democracy is on the ballot for us all.” So declaiming in his Union Station speech to the nation on the real stakes in the 2022 elections, President Joe Biden, who was immediately echoed by Barack Obama, painted himself and his party into a corner. For if Trump Republicans carry the day
In every election for the last 25 years, voters have had the opportunity to decide on statewide ballot measures legalizing marijuana for either medical or adult-use purposes. This November will be no exception. Voters in five states — Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota — will decide on proposals to legalize and regulate the adult-use
Photo: From left, Kristina Karamo, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, Mark Finchem, candidate for Arizona Secretary of State and Jim Marchant, candidate for Nevada Secretary of State Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are running for top state election offices said Saturday they were fighting against a
The first year of the Joe Biden administration is drawing to a close. What happened in the last 12 months in American politics and policy? Biden was elected promising to end COVID and unite the country. That didn’t happen. Now in response to the Omicron variant, Biden and Democrat governors are shutting down schools and businesses