Archive - The Downballot

Morning Digest: Why Georgia (almost certainly) won't host any runoffs this year

Democrats have won three enormous overtime wins in recent years

23 hrs ago • David Nir and Jeff Singer

Morning Digest: Election deniers have their sights on Arizona's secretary of state—again

Democrats fended off a conspiracy theorist in 2022. The GOP may nominate another one.

Jul 13 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

Weekly open thread

What races are you interested in?

Jul 10 • David Nir

Morning Digest: Democrats begin piling into Maine's newly reopened Senate race

Five familiar names are already running

Jul 10 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

The Downballot releases presidential results for every new House district, sponsored by Grassroots Analytics

10 state have new maps for the midterms. We have data for all of them.

Jul 9 • David Nir

Morning Digest: Two governors struggle to avoid getting ejected by their own party

No sitting governor has been ousted in a primary since 2018

Jul 9 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

The Graham Platner debacle

Listen now | Mainer Joe Sudbay joins us to unpack the whole saga

Jul 9 • David Nir and David Beard

1:17:02

Platner drops Senate bid, allowing Maine Democrats to tap replacement

The party has until July 27 to decide, but how it'll do so remains up in the air

Jul 9 • David Nir

Morning Digest: Missouri Democrats mobilize against GOP plan to make initiatives impossible

A tiny minority of voters could block even the most popular ballot measures

Jul 8 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

Morning Digest: Bombshell rape allegations upend Graham Platner's campaign

The candidate denied the accusations but hinted he might drop out

Jul 7 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

Weekly open thread

What races are you interested in?

Jul 3 • James Lambert

Morning Digest: How a GOP plan to elect judges could end abortion rights in Kansas

First, though, voters get to weigh in next month

Jul 2 • David Nir and Jeff Singer

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