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The Problem with Primary Voters (opens the original)
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The 2026 midterms have a missing-electorate problem (opens the original)
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Election watchers are running the familiar 2026 drill. How energized are Democrats after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act? Will the president’s party suffer the usual midterm penalty? These are the right questions if you assume the eligible electorate is a fixed pool and the only thing left to predict is who shows up.That assumption is wrong. The pool itself is shaped by who survives to Election Day, who can physically get to a polling place, and who has the bandwidth to navigate the administrativ
How to Haggle your Way to the Speakership (opens the original)
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Winning majorities. Keeping majorities. Choosing leaders. These are among the core tasks of political parties in Congress – and, for House Republicans, they have been increasingly hard to do. Such is the theme of John Leganski’s short and compelling new book, Glory, Grief, and the Gavel: An Inside Guide to Running for Speaker of the House.A one-time top aide to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Leganski begins his story as a McCarthy intern, explaining how he rose in the ranks of the congressman’s
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