[ad_1] CNN — Democrats will pick up a GOP-held Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a huge boost to their hopes of clinging to the chamber, while the red wave that Republicans hoped for has yet to materialize in the House. Democratic nominee John Fetterman’s victory over Republican Mehmet Oz means …
Read More »Exit polls: What voters are thinking as America goes to the polls
[ad_1] CNN — Read below for analysis of CNN’s preliminary 2022 national exit polls. More than three-quarters of Ohio voters said the nation’s economy was “poor” or “not so good,” according to the preliminary results of the Ohio Exit Poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research. …
Read More »Abortion ballot measures: These states have them in the midterm elections
[ad_1] CNN — Voters in a small number of states will decide in this week’s midterm elections how those states should handle the abortion issue. Abortion rights have taken on an increased significance and become a top focus in the midterm elections after the US Supreme Court’s ruling this summer …
Read More »Democrats confront their nightmare scenario on election eve as economic concerns overshadow abortion and democracy worries
[ad_1] CNN — Democrats close their midterm election campaign Monday facing the nightmare scenario they always feared – with Republicans staging a gleeful referendum on Joe Biden’s struggling presidency and failure to tame inflation. Hopes that Democrats could use the Supreme Court’s overturning of the right to an abortion and …
Read More »Analysis: 2022 midterm election has been 3 elections in 1
[ad_1] CNN — Elections are not linear. They bump along in fits and starts, constantly evolving as they go. That’s been the story of the 2022 midterm election, which can be divided into three distinct acts. This portion of the election ran from January 2021 until June 2022. The defining …
Read More »What early voting data can and cannot tell us
[ad_1] A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — When Democrats won the House in 2018, they did it with help from a great uptick in turnout that achieved the highest voter turnout for …
Read More »Opinion: It’s not OK for armed election deniers to intimidate voters
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Norman Eisen is a political law expert who advised the White House on election law when he served as President Barack Obama’s ethics czar. Taylor Redd is a researcher focusing on national elections. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Read more opinion at CNN. …
Read More »Law enforcement ratchets up presence in voting process as some sheriffs push election conspiracy theories
[ad_1] CNN — Early voters dropping off ballots in Berks County, Pennsylvania, are confronted by a sight surprising for elections in the United States: A pair of uniformed sheriff’s deputies armed with guns and tasers guarding the ballot box. Directed by local election officials to question voters before letting them deposit …
Read More »Warnings about a fragile democracy resonate in Arizona ahead of next week’s midterms
[ad_1] CNN — The voters who poured into a Phoenix high school to hear from former President Barack Obama were looking to send a message of defiance Wednesday night. They said they are determined to defeat former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked slate of election deniers – including gubernatorial nominee Kari …
Read More »Biden uses Florida’s ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ as foils for his closing midterm pitch
[ad_1] CNN — When President Joe Biden rallied Democrats in Florida on Tuesday for a final-stretch campaign stop, he finally landed in the state his advisers have long eyed as the ideal backdrop for his warnings against “mega-MAGA” Republicans. For months, Biden and his team had been hoping to use …
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