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The 2022 Congressional Baseball Game Is A Toss-Up

Think your office softball league is serious? Try the Congressional Baseball Game. Most summers since 1909, Democratic and Republican members of Congress have taken a break from legislating to play a friendly game of the national pastime, and through many ups and downs, it has slowly evolved into a huge event. Last year’s game, played […]

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We Calculated Advanced Stats For The Congressional Baseball Game

A fierce political free-for-all will be waged on Wednesday night — but it has nothing to do with the Democratic presidential debate. Under the lights at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., Republican and Democratic members of Congress will don their uniforms and take the field to play in the annual Congressional Baseball Game. The event […]

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Will Impeachment Talk Affect The Midterms?

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Greetings, all. I hope you got some sleep last night after the elections extravaganza! natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): It was such an exciting night that I couldn’t sleep. The most exciting election night of the […]

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