After decades of being a loyal Democrat and voting a straight Democratic ticket in every election — including the most recent ...

with 49 percent of moderate independents voting a straight Democratic ticket and 34 percent straight Republican. Meanwhile, party-aligned voters did what you’d expect: Democrats and Republicans ...

George Shannon Powers – by a little more than 900 votes, a gap that’s only slightly bigger than the GOP’s edge in voter ...

Results did not line up and down the ballot, where vote totals zigged away from the two-party political narrative.

Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced Thursday she won't seek re-election in 2026, forcing the Democratic Party to defend ...

Drop-off and mail-in ballots are sorted into bins during Super Tuesday at City Hall in San Francisco on March 5, 2024. Photo by Juliana Yamada for CalMatters. Like many Americans, I have worried ...

and 42% in the 2022 midterm election. Among the voters who cast a straight-ticket ballot, 69% checked yes for Republicans, 29.6% voted for Democrats and 1.4% marked Libertarian. These voters had ...

“In the last election cycle, we had Republicans in the House and Senate in the southeast. But a lot of people were upset with Trump, and they voted straight Democrat, and Republicans lost a lot ...

Republican voters in Georgia overwhelming lined up behind Donald Trump, while Democratic voters were more divided in last fall's election, according to new election records.

After decades of being a loyal Democrat and voting a straight Democratic ticket in every election — including the most recent one — I have left the Democratic Party. I’ve been concerned ...