New data offers a more nuanced look at this group beyond “white men without a college degree.”
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📺 Meet the Press: 11/04/18 | S71 E7105 | NBC
Vaughn Hillyard, Morgan Radford, Catie Beck, Garrett Haake, GA Dem. Candidate for Governor Stacey Abrams, Sen. Chris VanHollen, Gov. Bill Haslam, Tom Brokaw, Cornell Belcher, Savannah Guthrie, Kasie Hunt and Hugh Hewitt
📺 Face the Nation 11/4/18: Pompeo, Warner, McDaniel | CBS News
This week on “Face the Nation,” moderator John Dickerson interviews Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Mark Warner, and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. With just two more days until the crucial midterm elections, a new CBS Battleground Tracker previews what to look for on Election Day.
🎧 The Daily: A Scorched-Earth Strategy in Ohio | New York Times
Republicans have deployed a polarizing message and millions of advertising dollars in an attempt to rescue what used to be a reliably conservative congressional seat.
👓 Texas Voting Machines Have Been ‘a Known Problem’ for a Decade | Motherboard
The voting machines and their software—not voters—are to blame for votes switching from Beto O'Rourke to Ted Cruz (and vice versa), an expert told Motherboard.
🎧 The Daily: The State of the Midterms (and the Country) | New York Times
What to watch for in the run-up to the Nov. 6 elections.
🎧 The Daily: The Dilemma for Red-State Democrats | New York Times
How the showdown over the Supreme Court is affecting crucial midterm races in the nation’s heartland.
👓 Why is Heidi Heitkamp voting against Kavanaugh? | Washington Post
She is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat running for reelection in November, if not the most vulnerable senator on the ballot in 2018. Her race, in a state President Trump won by 36 points, is ground zero for the argument that the drama surrounding Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court may actually help Republicans keep control of the Senate. And yet, Sen. Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is voting against Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, a decision that thins the margin of error Republicans have to confirm Kavanaugh. That’s despite one local poll taken after Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault showing 60 percent North Dakota voters want Kavanaugh confirmed.
Presidential alert indeed! I’ve been on alert with this so-called President since November 2016. I’m not so sure about the “you don’t need to take action” part, however, which seems a bit gratuitous going into the midterms.
📺 Midterms are right around the corner. | TicToc by Bloomberg
Midterms are right around the corner. Here's what’s at stake for Trump and the Republicans if Democrats flip the House in November #TicTocFAQ pic.twitter.com/DhmGVd2bOK
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) September 25, 2018
👓 Election Update: Democrats’ Chances In The 13 Romney-Clinton Districts | Five Thirty Eight
Welcome to our Election Update for Thursday, Sept. 13! The biggest update: We now have a Senate forecast to go with our House forecast! The “Classic” version of the Senate forecast currently gives Democrats a 1 in 3 chance of flipping the upper chamber. Meanwhile, the “Classic” version of our House forecast hasn’t really changed much since yesterday: Democrats still have a 5 in 6 chance of winning control. Across thousands of simulations, Democrats’ average gain was 39 seats.
👓 A Democratic Blue Wave? Don’t Forget the Republicans’ Big Hill | New York Times
One seems like an unstoppable force, but a G.O.P. structural advantage may represent an immovable object.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: When Democratic Newcomers Challenge the Party Line | New York Times
Alarm over the election of Donald Trump spurred dozens of first-time candidates to run for Congress. Some of those candidates now present a problem for the Democratic Party.
On today’s episode:
• Mai Khanh Tran, a Democratic candidate for a United States House seat in California.
• Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• National Democrats, fearing that crowded rosters of primary candidates could fracture the party, have begun to intervene by urging some to bow out of the election.
• The party views the California midterms as a particular risk. The state’s nonpartisan primary system — in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election, regardless of party affiliation — could propel two Republican candidates to the November race.
• Here’s what to watch for in the California primaries, which take place on Tuesday.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: A Crossroads for the Democratic Party | New York Times
In Georgia, two women were locked in a close race for the Democratic nomination for governor. What does this primary tell us about the future of the Democratic Party?
On today’s episode:
• Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Stacey Abrams, a former minority leader of the Georgia House, made history by becoming the first black woman to be a major party nominee for governor in the United States, defeating Stacey Evans in Georgia’s Democratic primary.
• The race between Ms. Abrams and Ms. Evans, two well-regarded candidates with starkly different campaign strategies, was viewed as a weather vane for the Democratic Party’s prospects in the midterm elections. Ms. Abrams banked on the support of young people, women, and African-American and Hispanic voters, while Ms. Evans reached out to moderate and conservative-leaning white voters.
• Here are the results for Tuesday’s primaries in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas.
• Record numbers of women are running in the midterm elections, but the road to Capitol Hill is a hard one.