Why did Democrats win Senate races in so many states Trump won? Ticket splitters
Ticket-splitting used to be common and the swing-state down-ballot results show split tickets still can determine the outcome ...
Majority makers: Guide to GOP leadership elections in the Senate and House
GOP leadership elections in both chambers will chart a course for how Republicans will seek to work with President-elect ...
Pennsylvania will keep its divided legislature thanks to split-ticket voters
Despite the country’s stark political divide, some Pennsylvania voters in deep-red counties still genuinely vote for the ...
How Florida went from swing state to one so Republican-red it’s ‘crimson’
Bryan and Ashley Travers help explain what happened in Florida on Election Day. So does Vanessa Stratton, whose vote on ...
Trump will move U.S. to the right. But voters may only back him up to a point
With a Republican-controlled Senate, possibly the House as well, and a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, he now ...
Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered
Now that the election is over, our politics editor Kay Steiger asked five of our campaign reporters to tell us what actually mattered. Hint: Tt wasn’t the news cycles over a comedian calling Puerto ...