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Requiem for a California Dream
Once upon a time, there was a tropical paradise where all were welcome to claim their slice of the American Dream. They settled into their ranch houses with perpetually green lawns; palm trees lined...
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We took the best map ever of U.S. congressional districts—and made it even...
Four years ago, Daily Kos Elections introduced a map of United States congressional districts that showed each district with the same area in order to more accurately describe the distribution of...
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All the world's a donut: Introducing a new way to visualize our ancestries...
Last year, my colleague David Jarman introduced a dataset combining several different questions from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey into one massive spreadsheet giving detailed...
View ArticleNaptime in America
Imagine it’s naptime in America again.Thousands of newborn infants will rest calmly in their parents’ arms, parents who had the confidence to start a family.Families can gather together again to...
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Introducing the Daily Kos Elections Congressional District Snapshot
Here at Daily Kos Elections, we live and breathe elections data, and we’ve collected a ton of it (most of which you can find here). But when you want to know more about a specific congressional...
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Sagebrush doesn't vote. But what if it did? Introducing the 2022...
Traditional maps of election results always have the problem of over-emphasizing the results in parts of the country where there are more cows than people. To get around that problem, Daily Kos...
View ArticleMore House Republicans now losing primaries as the clowns take control of the...
For two cycles in a row now, we’ve had an unusual number of House Republicans losing their primaries: six in 2022 and five in 2020, not counting losses to another incumbent as a result of...
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Slava Ukraini: A Republican vote to defund Ukraine would come at their own peril
A consistent set of foot-dragging talking points on Ukraine has been percolating through the Republican infoscape—and leaking into the general media environment recently, whether from governors or your...
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Special elections are closely correlated with the House popular vote: Still...
In the dark hours of December 2016, we noticed something out of the ordinary. In one of the first elections following the previous month’s political apocalypse, a Democrat running for state Senate in...
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Democrats are crushing it in special elections this year. That's...
In August, Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones won back his seat in the legislature after getting expelled by the Republican majority for protesting gun violence. His margin of victory was an...
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Dobbs changed everything in 2022, yet the political environment remained the...
In the 2022 midterms, special elections were one of the klaxons alerting us to a changed political environment following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June. As a result of the...
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New Civiqs poll: Americans say inflation won't be solved until prices drop
Americans have a very different understanding from economists of what inflation is and how the economy works.The latest Daily Kos/Civiqs survey finds that pluralities of Americans—across party...
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