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FiveThirtyEight documents how Democrats Warnock and Ossoff won both Georgia runoff elections — and control of the U.S. Senate. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent in the special election, and Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican David Perdue, whose term as senator expired on...
Allan Smith of NBC News reports So far, more than 20 percent of the early vote nationwide has come from 2016 nonvoters, according to data from the NBC News Decision Desk/TargetSmart, a Democratic political data firm. With 77 million having already cast early votes — a number that the Decision Desk...
Ben Leonard of the Baltimore Sun reports how Maryland reported 962 new coronavirus cases Thursday — the most new daily cases since Aug. 1 — and 11 deaths tied to COVID-19, the disease the virus causes. Maryland Covid-19 Cases are indeed spiking. Hospitalizations Thursday’s reported 502 current hospitalizations set a...
Jim Geraghty at National Review outlines how Trump won with 306 electoral votes four years ago and thus he can give away 36 electoral votes and hit the critical threshold of 270. He doesn’t need to win Wisconsin. He doesn’t need to win Michigan. He could lose both of those...
The Economist examines the chances of a tarheel blue wave based on an examination of the swing state of North Carolina. By the time Donald Trump and Joe Biden held their debate this week, around 50 million ballots were already cast—almost 40% of the total in 2016. Union County, North...
Our picks for 9/10/20 are based on nine identified criteria for winning football in the NFL (2020 will be based on 2019 stats for first 4 weeks), and both hot (80%) and cold trends (20%) with both teams individually as well as in their head to head matchup. We bet...