I hate press releases, but I’m delighted to introduce a few new members of the Inside Elections team, so this brief will have to suffice. Later this month, Leah Askarinam will start as a full-time Reporter & Analyst for Inside Elections, covering all of the key House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. She was most recently […]
BOZEMAN, MONTANA — Wednesday’s unusual confrontation between Republican Greg Gianforte and a political reporter have given a boost to Democratic hopes of picking off the vacant Montana at-large House seat previously held by now-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Although Democratic nominee Rob Quist has kept the race surprisingly close, Gianforte still entered the final stretch of […]
The numbers are daunting for Senate Democrats. The party needs to net three seats to retake the Senate, and with only eight Republican Senate seats up in 2018 compared to 25 Democratic seats, Democratic prospects are bleak. (Two of those Democratic seats are Independents who caucus with the Democrats.) But the appointment of a special […]