(Un)Conventional Wisdom

With almost everything over but the counting here are some numbers to keep in mind before Tuesday rsquo s vote The White House disadvantage Midterm elections almost always go badly for the party controlling the presidency Since the Civil War the president rsquo s party has lost seats in the Hous

(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the 2014 midterms

The daylight hours of Election Day bring story after story tweet after tweet about voter turnout This is insanely boring and the stories have little predictive value about the election results Long lines in certain places prompt speculation about unexpectedly high turnout and only later do we

We’re less than two weeks from election day, so it’s time to start writing the post-mortems.

Will hysteria over the Ebola virus drive midterm voters to the right?

Congress is more adept at fear-mongering (see: the Ebola virus) than at substantive debate.

Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.

Democratic senate candidate in K.Y. a champion of ballot-box privacy

Wendy Davis’s campaign ad reminding voters of her opponent’s disability backfires.

On Thursday a federal judge struck down Texas rsquo s voter ID law which requires citizens to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots in federal and state elections The law does not make the same demands of those mailing in absentee ballots U S District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos