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June 14, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
MAGA House Hopeful Denies Making Insane A.I. Martin Luther King Jr. Ad
Michigan Republican Anthony Hudson blamed the terrible A.I.-generated ad on a campaign volunteer.
May 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Latest Way Kicking Kevin McCarthy Out Has Backfired on Republicans
Turns out, Mike Johnson is not nearly as good at fundraising.
April 15, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Once Again, We Must Wonder What the Heck George Santos Is Doing
The serial fabulist has raised no money in his current congressional campaign.
December 21, 2023
Grace Segers
What Democrats in Congress Think About Biden’s Alarming Young Voter Problem
The president’s support among Gen Z has plummeted since he endorsed Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
March 10, 2023
Walter Shapiro
There’s No Need for Biden to Announce His Reelection Bid Yet
Delaying a declaration until later this year comes with a number of side benefits.
January 30, 2023
Walter Shapiro
The 2024 Presidential Race Is Off to a Blissfully Quiet Start
The permanent campaign might have actually taken a break for once.
November 1, 2022
Walter Shapiro
The 2022 Midterms Are the Ultimate Triumph of Campaign Consultants
For decades, strategists have been trying to control candidates. Now, with fewer debates and events, they’ve finally gotten their way.
October 4, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Do Political Ads Even Work?
2022 is set to be the most expensive midterm election in history. But the political science research is murky on how much that matters.
December 29, 2021
Daniel Strauss
The Midterms: The Good, the OK, and the Really, Seriously Ugly
If a lot of things break their way, the Democrats could defy history in the midterm elections. But man, that would need to be a whole lot of things.
September 8, 2020
Magazine
J.C. Pan
The Anti-Democratic Origins of Voter Prediction
How the Simulmatics Corporation tried to engineer an election—and paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal
September 4, 2020
Magazine
Steven Greenhouse
A Bold New Plan to Turn the Rust Belt Blue
A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.
June 16, 2020
Walter Shapiro
Trump’s Potemkin Reelection Campaign
The president’s advisers are working to convince him he’s beloved and winning. It couldn’t be further from the truth.
April 16, 2020
Magazine
John A. Farrell
Breaking the Grip of White Grievance
The 2020 campaign is shaping up into a referendum on Trumpism.
March 19, 2020
Magazine
Walter Shapiro
The Political Media’s Blurred Reality
How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism
January 3, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Rise of a Hollow Political Catchphrase
Democrats focus on "kitchen-table issues" to avoid being tarnished as overzealous liberals.
May 19, 2014
Sidney Blumenthal
On the 1992 Campaign Trail with Jerry Brown
March 2, 1992
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