Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week Whoever wins the Democratic primary for governor in Georgia will be an underdog in the general election. Georgia isn’t as red as you might think — Hillary Clinton lost there by only 5 percentage points in 2016. But it’s still a red state. Whether […]
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week 2018 seems like a bad time to be a Republican just about anywhere. So you would think it would be even worse to be a Republican in deep-blue Massachusetts, where Hillary Clinton won by 27 percentage points in 2016. But the state’s GOP governor, […]
If the much-ballyhooed “blue wave” does materialize this fall, it could be Republican governors who suffer the most losses. The other day, we ran down the seven governorships held by Democrats or independents that could fall to the GOP in November. Today’s list of vulnerable Republican seats is more than twice as long. According to […]
Democrats have a great chance at picking up gubernatorial seats in November — but that doesn’t mean they won’t need to defend a few of their own. Last week, we showed why polls of governors races released so far should be taken with a grain of salt. This early in the campaign, a qualitative assessment […]
Strike up a conversation about the 2018 election at your typical politics-themed cocktail party, and you’ll find the discussion decidedly Washington-centric. “Can Democrats win the House?” everyone asks breathlessly. “Will Republicans lose the Senate?” Those are both important questions. But one equally consequential electoral arena has mostly flown under the radar: governors races. Indeed, Democrats’ […]