Republican Herschel Walker leads Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in early polls of the 2022 US Senate race in Georgia. Sean Rayford/Getty Images According to a recent survey from Blueprint Polling, Republican Herschel Walker is leading Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock 49 percent to 45 percent in Georgia’s 2022 Senate race. According to another from Emerson College/The … Read more
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Interested in who’s going to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio in a few months? Well, we’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there are already 22 polls of the race! But the bad news is that 21 … Read more
Are there really more Americans identifying as Republicans than Democrats now? For decades, more Americans have tended to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, even if the gap has sometimes been small. But in January, Gallup found that Republicans had taken the lead in party ID during the last three months of 2021: On average, … Read more
In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates why politicians break with their parties in a public way and the consequences this can have. They also discuss the trend of amateur candidates running and winning the House primary and question whether Biden’s rejection of the polls is a “good or bad use … Read more