In The News: Department of Political Science
The Democrats' not-so-secret weapon in Nevada is an army of service workers from the Culinary Workers Union who have been helping deliver the party victories for several elections.
The insurance industry contributed more than $60 million during the current 2023-24 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit organization tracking campaign donations and lobbying. There are more donations to be counted before the Nov. 5 election, but the insurance industry is well behind the $127 million donated in the 2019-20 election cycle. The off-year 2021-22 election cycle netted $83 million in donations from insurers.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency request to put Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Nevada’s presidential ballot, a potential boost for Vice President Kamala Harris’ efforts to carry the closely divided state. Opinion polls show Harris and former President Donald Trump essentially tied in Nevada, and Stein's presence on the ballot had the potential to pull voters from the vice president.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Voters this year will once again have the opportunity to remove the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents from the state constitution, thanks to a ballot measure that is similar to (but not identical to) one narrowly defeated in 2020.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency request to put Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Nevada’s presidential ballot, a potential boost for Vice President Kamala Harris’ efforts to carry the closely divided state. Opinion polls show Harris and former President Donald Trump essentially tied in Nevada, and Stein's presence on the ballot had the potential to pull voters from the vice president.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the swing state of Nevada with less than two months to go until the November election, new polling shows.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the swing state of Nevada with less than two months to go until the November election, new polling shows.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Voters this year will once again have the opportunity to remove the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents from the state constitution, thanks to a ballot measure that is similar to (but not identical to) one narrowly defeated in 2020.
Jews are running in some of the most pivotal, too-close-to-call races in the nation this election season. Here are four contests — two Senate, one House and one governor’s race — plus a bonus contest where the Jewish Democrat in the last election nearly ousted one of the most provocative Republicans in Congress.
As the U.S. election campaign enters its decisive home stretch, with the candidates now nominated, there will be much focus on how the outcome will impact the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. We’d like to point out that the volatile South Caucasus may be affected no less by a return to a transactional approach that views Vladimir Putin favorably.
Is Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) just a carbon copy of Vice President Kamala Harris? Is Sam Brown just Donald Trump reincarnated? The Nevada Senate campaigns (and supportive outside groups) are each spending millions of dollars to try to get voters to think of their opponent in the same breath as their party leader. Each candidate has tried to brand the other with the moniker of their party leaders — Rosen rarely mentions Brown without adding the “MAGA extremist” label, while Brown has sought to portray Rosen as a rubber stamp for Biden, and now Harris’, economic agenda.
For the more than 40 years he has lived in Nevada, Jose Solorio says political campaigns have never been quite able to truly crack the state’s Latino community. The 65-year-old lobbyist and community advocate is not the first to emphasize the well-worn bit of political wisdom that the Latino community is not a monolith, with voting behaviors differing greatly by their immigration experience, age and Spanish proficiency. But after all these years and close elections, he says political parties are still grappling with this dynamic.