Category: 2022 congressional elections

Expert Panel: Economy, Not Abortion or ‘Threats to Democracy,’ Will Determine 2022 Midterm Winners

When the 2022 midterm primary cycle kicked off in March, Democrats were being battered over inflation and economic uncertainty with a projected “Red Wave” poised to sweep Republicans into a Senate majority and to as much as a 30-seat hammer-hold in the House. But GOP campaigns across the country were apparently unprepared for how the…


Survey Finds Most Likely Voters View Biden’s Philadelphia Speech as ‘Dangerous Escalation’

A big majority of voters who say they are likely to cast ballots in the November congressional elections agree with a description of President Joe Biden’s Sept. 1 speech in Philadelphia as a “dangerous escalation in rhetoric” that was “designed to incite conflict among Americans.” Biden’s speech was delivered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where…


Post-Roe Fallout Dulls Odds, but GOP Poised for Kansas U.S. House Sweep

More than 900,000 Kansans voted in a special election on Aug. 2 and nearly 60 percent of them rejected a proposed amendment removing abortion access as a fundamental right from the state’s constitution. The Kansas special election was the first public referendum on abortion following June’s U.S. Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade, which…


Post-Roe Fallout Dulls Odds, but GOP Poised for Kansas US House Sweep

More than 900,000 Kansans voted in a special election on Aug. 2 and nearly 60 percent of them rejected a proposed amendment removing abortion access as a fundamental right from the state’s constitution. The Kansas special election was the first public referendum on abortion following June’s U.S. Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade, which…