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To better understand what it’s really like to try and win an election as a woman, we spoke to women from every state who have done it — 97 women in all.
2024 Republican Debates The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump Six of the eight candidates from the first debate appear set to qualify for the Sept. 27 event.
Voting Rights How Majority-Minority Districts Fueled Diversity In Congress And why people of color are winning more seats outside of those districts too.
Texans making 4,000-mile round-trip journeys for abortions. Weeks-long waits for appointments at clinics across the Midwest. Desperate calls to abortion funds asking for help with procedure costs ...
The vanguard of American conservatism is Florida — at least, according to its governor. The state is on “the front lines in the battle for freedom,” Gov. Ron De… ...
Joe Biden is officially running for a second term. What are his chances in the Democratic primary and the general election?
Let’s give a big round of applause to the pollsters. Measuring public opinion is, in many ways, harder than ever — and yet, the polling industry just had one of… ...
Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight are probably familiar with our pollster ratings: letter grades that we assign to pollsters based on their historical accuracy and transparency. Since 2008, we ...
Economy Are We Headed For A Recession Or Not? Why our usual economic indicators aren't pointing in a clear direction.
Playing chicken with the national economy is not unusual for Congress and the president. There was the time that former President Donald Trump ground the govern… ...
2024 Republican Primary How Donald Trump’s Unusual Presidential Comeback Could Go History presents three possible paths.
Twitter How Americans Really Feel About Elon Musk Hint: His unscientific polls don’t tell us much.