The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has redrawn the state’s Congressional Districts based on its recent ruling finding the current map to be unconstitutional partisan Gerrymandering. It makes a lot more sense than the map the state is currently using.
Donald Trump has apparently made the American public more supportive of players who kneel for the National Anthem.
More thoughts related to Gill v. Whitford and the problem of extreme gerrymandering.
Kamala Harris has joined Bernie Sanders’ call for creation of a single-payer healthcare system.
President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.
Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.
The number of faithless electors was both historical and trivial.
On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)
Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.
Her numbers are steady; he’s reclaiming Republican voters.
Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.
Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.
Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.
If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.
A British political scientist lays out some of the political and institutional factors that will be relevant going forward.
In case anyone noticed: I got the Trump nomination wrong.
Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.
The host of a weekend show on MSNBC is angry that the network wants her to talk about the presidential race.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling today for votes in a caucus whose outcome could go either way.
Some thoughts and questions as we finally hit the start of the process. (And the return of the Toast-o-Meter)
Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.
Seemingly disproving yet another round of predictions of his imminent demise, Donald Trump continues to dominate the race for the Republican nomination.
Well this could be a game changer.
For the first time since Chang Kai-Shek escaped across the Taiwan Strait, the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China will meet this weekend.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus suggested that Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn’t get used to their place at the top of the primary calendar. He’s right, but fixing the crazy system that put them there isn’t going to be easy.
International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.
Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.
A new polls seems to show that Republicans are still clinging to their opposition to marriage equality in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell.
Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.
