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Byline: By Regarding the Oct. 19 front-page article 'Seeking a historic win, Harris faces a familiar foe: Sexism': As an academic who has studied public evaluations of women candidates for [...]

Byline: Andrew Van Dam By now, you're probably aware Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has described Democrats as 'childless cat ladies' with no 'direct stake' in America's future. We, on [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Right-wing media commentators and MAGA politicians have one thing right: The cultural tide of pluralism, secularism and feminism has washed away their imagined reactionary paradise of a [...]

Byline: Henry Olsen American politics has been a stalemate between the two parties for nearly 30 years. Every time it looks as though one party gains a lasting upper hand [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty The 2022 midterms aren't quite a poisoned chalice; a political party would always rather win an election than lose one. Republicans are poised to win the House [...]

Byline: Robert Fleegler In late September, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his chamber's Republicans unveiled their 'Commitment to America,' an agenda that they hope will propel them to [...]

Byline: Dan Balz; Emily Guskin; Scott Clement Heading into the final weeks of the midterm election campaign, Americans are split nationally in their vote for Congress, with Republicans holding sizable [...]

Byline: Olivier Knox; Caroline Anders Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here . After our annual summer hiatus, we're back! On this day in 1995, [...]

Byline: Matt Viser It's not President Biden as many have come to know him. He's not the aviator-wearing average Joe with familiar family folkisms, the grandpa who plays with his [...]

Byline: Steven Brint As the 2022 midterm elections approach, Democrats are fretting about nearly all of the groups in their voting base. Will frustrated young people sit out the election? [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent As the political world stumbles into 2022, the GOP's grip on state governments appears as formidable as ever. Republicans will fully control the governorship and legislature in [...]

Byline: Catherine Rampell Republican lawmakers have been casting about for reasons to oppose President Biden's infrastructure plan, even though it looks an awful lot like initiatives they've supported in the [...]

Byline: Jonathan Bendor;Jacob N. Shapiro For the past several months, some Republican politicians have been questioning the validity of the November election, and millions of citizens think it was fraudulently [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer with Brent D. Griffiths Workers most at risk of losing their jobs to automation swung even harder behind President Trump in this election than they did in [...]

Byline: Robert McCartney Two years ago, Virginia Democrats won a majority of their state's congressional seats for the first time in a decade, part of a national trend that made [...]

Byline: Robert Costa;Robert Moore Republicans have long idealized Texas as a deep-red frontier state, home to rural conservatives who love President Trump. But political turbulence in the sprawling suburbs and [...]

Byline: Catherine Rampell Breaking: A Republican accidentally told the truth about tax cuts. Almost. At least if you count Rep. Kevin Brady's (Tex.) recent equivocation about whether the GOP tax [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer THE TICKER Want more stories like this? Sign up here. House Republicans will vote a second time to pass their tax plan today, completing a blitzkrieg rewrite [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Democrat Ralph Northam's win in the Virginia governor's race on Tuesday is the one that's getting lots of attention. But the much bigger win for Democrats -- [...]

Byline: Anna Fifield TOKYO -- Spare a thought for Japanese voters as they go to the polls in a snap parliamentary election Sunday. The economy is ticking along respectably, the [...]

Byline: Griff Witte;Karla Adam LONDON -- In 2015, Britain's Labour Party tacked to the left, repudiating the middle-way philosophy that had won it three elections under Tony Blair. Voters responded [...]

Byline: James Hohmann THE BIG IDEA: -- America Rising, the outside group focused on using opposition research and trackers to drive up Hillary Clinton's negatives while other Republicans go at [...]

Byline: Stuart Rothenberg With a week to go until Election Day, the outlook for the Senate remains uncomfortably cloudy. About half of the 11 races that have been watched at [...]

Byline: Dan Balz DENVER -- When Hillary Clinton's campaign and its allies pulled down television ads in Colorado some weeks ago, it was described as a game-set-match moment in the [...]

Byline: John Sides Every day seems to bring another story about nervous Republican House and Senate candidates, wondering if Donald Trump is going to cost them their seats. Here's the [...]

Byline: John Sides Donald Trump's poll numbers have slumped over the past three weeks. His campaign is perpetually being re-configured. Meanwhile, a new survey of political experts by the site [...]

Byline: Tobias Konitzer;David Rothschild Starting just after New Year, we have been tracking U.S. voters' policy preferences. We see two very clear trends. First, more people support Democratic over Republican [...]

Byline: Max Ehrenfreund American politics always has surprises, but things have been especially unpredictable since President Obama took office. First, few observers were prepared for the tea party movement, which [...]

Byline: Stephen Stromberg The Republican Party is a collection of closed-minded reactionaries that faces electoral catastrophe in November. But don't take my word for it -- take John Kasich's. 'Frankly, [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent THE MORNING PLUM: If Hillary Clinton racks up a big win in New York today, it will only temper Bernie Sanders's arguments for keeping up the fight [...]

Byline: John Sides Today's primary elections will tell us a lot more about whether Donald Trump is likely to win a majority of delegates to the Republican convention. In particular, [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola BERLIN -- In a new German political ad, a young woman in a dimly lighted underground crossing gazes directly into the camera. She flashes a concerned look, [...]

Byline: Shibley Telhami A year ago, I wrote an article with Katayoun Kishi on this website about the emerging partisan divide in American public attitudes on issues related to Israel [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer BEIJING -- China said Thursday that it will abandon its controversial 'one-child' policy and allow all couples to have two children, effectively ending the biggest -population-control experiment [...]

Byline: Max Ehrenfreund Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the world of politics by surprise the past couple of weeks, giving her support to the most liberal members of her party [...]

Byline: Max Ehrenfreund Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the world of politics by surprise the past couple of weeks, giving her support to the most liberal members of her party [...]

Byline: Pedro Magalhães Joshua Tucker: Continuing our series of Monkey Cage Election Reports , we are pleased to present the following pre-election report on the October 2015 Portuguese parliamentary elections [...]

Byline: Max Ehrenfreund New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has taken some criticism for his proposed changes to Social Security, and not just from Democrats. 'What we're really embracing at that [...]

Byline: John Sides Hillary Clinton is now formally a presidential candidate, to pretty much no one's surprise. One of the important challenges she faces is simple history: it has been [...]

Byline: Max Ehrenfreund Speaking in Cleveland on Wednesday, President Obama was asked what he thought about money in politics. He responded by suggesting that voting be mandatory, as it is [...]

Byline: John Sides According to the model, the most likely scenario, which occurs 49 percent of the time, is that Republicans win 53 seats. They have a 36 percent chance [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent One outcome from today's elections has pretty much already been decided: Whether Democrats somehow hold the Senate or whether Republicans capture it, we are only headed for [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent A new batch of polls released over the weekend confirm that a GOP takeover of the Senate is now very likely. The major forecasts are putting the [...]

Byline: Carl Klarner My forecast for the 2014 state legislative elections indicate that the Democrats will lose majorities in five state Senates and nine state Houses. Those state Senates are [...]

Byline: Philip Bump When we first looked at how early voting was evolving in states that allow the practice, we included an important caveat: these things shift quickly for a [...]

Byline: Nia-Malika Henderson A notable finding in a new AP-GfK poll: Women have moved in the GOP's direction since September. In last month's AP-GfK poll, 47 percent of female likely [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent I've been saying for months that Republicans are marginally favored to take the Senate. With the major forecasts shifting a bit more towards the GOP, Republicans have [...]

Byline: John Sides There are reasons to be skeptical that this will happen. It's not just that we can't easily predict whether the polls will over- or underestimate one party's [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent In multiple Senate races, Democrats are hammering Republican candidates over contraception and 'Personhood,' a development that many observers interpret as a sign that Dems are now the [...]

Byline: Chris Cillizza Over the past few days, two of three big election models -- the Post's and the New York Times' -- have updated their predictions about the likelihood [...]