David Wasserman
Senior Editor and Elections Analyst at The Cook Political Report
Senior Editor & Elections Analyst of the nonpartisan @CookPolitical Report w/ @AmyEWalter. Nerd for 🗺️ maps, ⛷️ ski slopes & 🎻 trad tunes. Has seen enough.
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3 weeks ago |
cookpolitical.com | David Wasserman
Since first descending Trump Tower's golden escalator in 2015, President Donald Trump has been one of the most schismatic political figures in American history. The 2016 election set a modern record for electoral polarization, blowing open long-emerging divides between urban/suburban and rural voters and those with and without college degrees.
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1 month ago |
cookpolitical.com | David Wasserman
The seven-state Electoral College battleground of 2024 became such a cliche that it's hard to believe that states other than Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin ever mattered. But, you don’t need to go that far back in history to be reminded that it wasn’t always this way. States' partisan leanings are ever-evolving, sometimes in incongruous ways.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
jdsupra.com | David Wasserman
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Nov 5, 2024 |
cookpolitical.com | David Wasserman
If there’s a throughline for the last decade of elections, it’s the stealth Donald Trump vote. Yesterday, the electorate veered towards Trump in a way many polls and talk of late momentum for Kamala Harris failed to capture. It’s evident that many of the lower-propensity voters who didn’t show up in 2022 but did in 2024 were once again both tougher for pollsters to measure and more open to supporting the populist Republican, powering Trump’s gains versus four years ago in virtually every state.
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Nov 4, 2024 |
cookpolitical.com | David Wasserman
In 2022, Republicans won more votes cast in House races than Democrats nationally by about three points, 50.6%-47.8%. And across the 400 House seats where both major parties were represented on the ballot, the median Democratic House candidate underperformed President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin in their district by 5.1 points. In a typical midterm year, that kind of weakness would have been enough to produce a robust GOP majority.
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