Archives for 2026

Los Angeles Times: “The sweeping wins were driven by a rare coalition of voters across nearly all walks of American life, in cities and countryside, from the rural Midwest and Deep South to a traditionally conservative mid-Atlantic. Not since voters were repulsed by President Nixon after the Watergate scandal half a century ago has the popular vote swung so decisively in a single election cycle.”

“The wave was so comprehensive that it handed Democrats wins that for decades have been unthinkable — flipping Senate seats in Kansas, South Carolina and Texas — and gained a majority of governors’ seats for the first time in a generation.”

“Rep. Max Miller has conceded defeat in Ohio after a campaign marred by domestic abuse allegations,” the Associated Press reports.

“Miller lost to Democrat Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker and councilman, after remaining in a race that both Ohio’s Republican U.S. senators, one his former father-in-law, Bernie Moreno, had urged him to exit.”

“Scott Colom said Wednesday morning that he is ‘confident’ he is on track to becoming the first Black senator from Mississippi in well over a century, with the race extremely tight and votes still being counted,” the Washington Sun reports.

Said Colom: “I am very happy with where we stand. I’m confident. I’m confident once the process lays out where we are, where the ballots are, we’re gonna win.”

Semafor: “By October, when the rest of the country began tuning into South Carolina — and spending money — Andrews quietly became the frontrunner.”

“On Oct. 5, the Andrews campaign received a poll showing her with a 3-point lead over Graham. But the Democrat’s campaign decided against publicly releasing the poll — or any subsequent internal poll — showing Andrews with a lead over Graham, wary of drawing too much attention from national Republicans and jeopardizing a peak at the right time.”