Scott Colom's surprising success in the Mississippi Senate race shows a fundamental problem with political forecasting.

Mississippi Senate candidate Scott Colom (D) extended his slim lead by more than 3,000 votes over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) ahead of two crucial ballot deadlines in the week after Democrats saw sweeping victories in the midterm elections. The Hill’s election partner Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) found that, with around 95 percent of ballots counted,…

The 2026 midterms were a drubbing for Republicans at nearly every level of government. But there’s an overlooked upshot of the Democrats’ sweep that could effectively alter the U.S. Constitution and the way the country elects its president.The National Popular Vote Compact (NPVC) is now easily achievable.The NPVC is an agreement among states to assign their Electoral College votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide in a presidential...

Standing up to AIPAC’s agenda has become more than just a policy debate. It’s already a moral litmus test in our elections in a way few issues are.

If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats’ sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired. Starting last summer, Trump and Republican allies undertook an aggressive effort to redraw congressional districts, reconfiguring the lines to give Republican candidates an advantage. Ahead of the midterms, Republicans redrew 15 seats to...

In the wake of that decision, an unknown number of eligible voters arrived at the polls Tuesday, only to find what has happened in nearly every federal election since Mississippi’s first experiments with Experian’s information two years ago: Properly registered voters had been mistakenly inactivated (opens in a new tab) after the secretary of state provided local election officials with inaccurate address lists pulled from commercial data.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown says his office will defend Initiative 638, but ties to the ACLU, his former law firm and a union raise questions.

Here’s a story you probably haven’t heard about the Nov. 3 election results: Radical gender ideology lost. Badly.This reality has been overlooked in virtually all the coverage of the Republican bloodbath in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. It’s true that Democrats romped to victory across the board, including in many races where their chances looked slim as recently as a few weeks ago. It’s also true that the new crop of elected Democrats...