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The Most District: What's America's most manufacturing-based congressional district? Indiana's 2nd
Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District has seen more than its fair share of economic ups and downs. If you go back to 2009 Census economic data, at the peak of the recession, and zoom in on Elkhart ... → Read More
The Most District: What district has the most 20 to 24-year-olds? Texas's 17th
“Millennial” has become a bit of a pejorative in popular media, often deployed as shorthand for a smug hipster who’s a harbinger of neighborhood-destroying regentrification, a self-absorbed ... → Read More
Last night's Washington primary is one more big reason to kill the caucuses
You’re probably already familiar with some of the basic arguments for the elimination of caucuses from America’s byzantine presidential primary system: • they exclude people who have to work on weekends (or evenings) • they exclude people who are... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the Indiana primary
Several weeks ago, there was a ton of hype about the Indiana primaries. It was looking like Donald Trump’s trajectory was going to leave him just short of 1,237 delegates which would open up the first truly contested convention in decades, and Indiana... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the Northeast primaries
As we keep getting closer to filling in the entire map, Tuesday night’s primaries cover one of the biggest remaining gaps—the Northeast. (Granted, some authorities, most prominently the Census Bureau, consider Maryland and Delaware to be part of the... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the New York primary
The New York primary usually doesn’t have much impact on the presidential nomination process, coming late in the cycle most years. This year, though, with both parties’ races going deep into the calendar, it’s a marquee event. And making it an even... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the Wisconsin primary
You’re probably tired of the hyperbole about this or that state in the primary process being “must win!!” But Wisconsin does seem to qualify as “must win” on both sides of the aisle, at least for Bernie Sanders for the Democrats and Ted Cruz for the... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections preview of Saturday's Democratic caucuses
Saturday’s caucuses may be the high water mark for this year’s primary season for Bernie Sanders; it’s three caucuses (where he tends to do better than primaries), and three west coast states. In particular, Washington is likely to give Sanders the larges → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to Southwest Tuesday
Tuesday night’s primary and caucuses are one of the smaller events on the calendar: three states on the Democratic side, and only two states for the Republicans. All three are in the inland west, with Arizona and Utah on both sides, and Idaho for the Demo → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to Not-Quite-As-Super Tuesday
There’s no handy nickname for this Tuesday’s primary elections (we’ve seen it called “Titanic Tuesday” at least once, which is great if you want to visualize the country sailing straight ... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the Michigan and Mississippi primaries
Now that the primary season has passed through the states where the trees are too tall (Maine), and the states where the trees are too short (let’s say … Nevada?), we’ve finally arrived in the state where the trees are just the right height: Michigan. In → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to this weekend's primaries and caucuses
There’s no catchy name like “Super Tuesday” for the various primary-season contests that will happen this weekend, but there are still a number of delegates up for grabs. On the Democratic side, there are three caucuses (Kansas, Maine, and Nebraska), and → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections Super Tuesday poll closing times map and state-by-state guide
Super Tuesday—the single biggest day of 2016’s primary election marathon—is finally upon us. Tonight’s contests will ... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the South Carolina Democratic primary
Thanks to South Carolina’s unusual decision to have their Republican primary one week and their Democratic primary th... → Read More
The gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor is growing instead of shrinking
Life expectancies have gone up significantly in the last 50 years, and it’s natural to think that they’re just going... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections guide to the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina Republican primary
There are two key states on the primary schedule in the week ahead: Nevada and South Carolina. But because nothing in... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections town-by-town guide to the New Hampshire primary
It’s election day in the Granite State, the first state in the nomination process that uses a primary election instea... → Read More
The Daily Kos Elections county-by-county guide of what to expect in Iowa's Democratic caucuses
Iowa’s presidential caucuses are finally (and mercifully) upon us. Unfortunately, the final results may take a while... → Read More
Louie Gohmert, king of the Republican clowns, could suddenly find himself kicked out of the circus
With Michele Bachmann gone from the House, we're pretty much left with Louie Gohmert as the House Republican who's mo... → Read More
The Most District: What's America's least-educated congressional district? California's 21st
California’s 21st congressional district The nation’s least-educated congressional district is California’s 21st... → Read More