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In 2024 South Texas handed Republicans the biggest Latino swing in decades. Polls now suggest some of that may have been a loan. Elsewhere in the region, a Louisiana House member's stock trades and an Oklahoma tie test how safe the rest is.
On Sunday, two days before the vote, the national numbers look like a switchover in progress. Emerson’s last October poll has Democrats ahead on the generic House ballot 52 to 42, up from 44 percent support fifteen months ago, with […]
Montana’s Senate seat wasn’t supposed to be open. On March 4, Sen. Steve Daines withdrew from his reelection race and endorsed Kurt Alme, the U.S. attorney for Montana, who then took 77 percent in the June primary. Seth Bodnar, the […]
In October, an NPR series on swing voters reported on two online focus groups of Georgians who had voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and Donald Trump in 2024. There were twelve of them. Eleven said they were disappointed in […]
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