MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

Could the economy, a vaccine, debates, or a SCOTUS nomination change the race? Maybe, but don't count on it.

1960: The Making of the President teaches some timeless lessons about modern campaign tactics and strategy.

The Republican Party concedes that reelecting Trump is not just its chief goal, but its only goal

The economy shrank by 9.5 points in the 2nd quarter. That's really bad, but can we forecast the vote from it?

Coalitions are inherently unwieldy, ugly, unstable, and unsatisfying. They're also effective.

The Trump campaign is playing a bad hand reasonably well.

The Court's decision makes clear that the Electoral College doesn't deliberate - it exists to give some states a representational advantage

Hickenlooper had the edge on the fundamentals, but Romanoff was the better campaigner. Guess which mattered more.

Should Joe Biden choose Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren as his VP? New polling suggests neither has a strong effect on voters' choices.

A good photo op has important symbolic value and can be empowering. Trump's Bible stunt was pretty much the opposite.

The VP nominee process looks a lot like the one party reformers have been pushing for the presidency

Despite some alarmist headlines, there’s good reason to think American democracy will survive the pandemic.

Azari and Masket look at an unusually public campaign for the vice presidential slot and what that tells us about parties.

We can be confident voters will hold Trump accountable for the fundamentals. We just don't know what those fundamentals are yet.

Three ways that the coronavirus epidemic could have electoral consequences.

After Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary, a lot of power players in the Democratic Party have come to his aid. Rivals Pete...

This year, I took a group of Georgetown's best students to Iowa to see the nation's first caucuses unfold. (I'm taking groups to New...

Donald Trump’s electoral appeal is populist. It is populist in the specific sense in which Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser...

Many engaged Democrats debate the merits of the large field of presidential candidates on social media, and this conversation can...

Using approval ratings to predict vote shares finds that the odds are difficult for Trump's reelection, but not prohibitive.