The 2016 Presidential election is just 15 days away and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is currently the favorite over Republican...
Hillary Clinton Leads by 7 Points in Pennsylvania Poll
via The New York Times If Donald J. Trump has a path to the presidency with big gains among white...
Nearly 1,000 Healthcare.gov counties will have just one insurer next year
via Vox Obamacare’s marketplaces aren’t just struggling with higher premiums — they’ll also have significantly less competition next year. The...
Latest Upshot Poll Shows Trump With a Lead in Florida
via The New York Times Donald J. Trump has slowly but surely improved his standing in state and national polls...
The Impact of Obamacare, in Four Maps
via The New York Times The share of people without health insurance keeps falling. Since 2013, when the major provisions...
Donald Trump has a path to victory again thanks to Florida
via Washington Post There's been some movement toward Donald Trump in both national and swing state polling over the past...
State-by-State Map: How the Clinton and Trump Camps Spent $595 Million on TV, Radio Ads
Via Advertising Age Mr. Trump had a change of heart starting around August -- and there's been a lot of...
An Historical Rarity: A Four-Party Presidential Election
Via Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball Third parties, such as Ralph Nader’s Green Party candidacy in 2000, tend to affect...
Cook Political Report: Democrats Poised to Pick Up 10-20 House Seats
Via Cook Political Report Less than two weeks from Election Day, Democrats are on track to pick up between 10...
538: One North Carolina County Shows The Cracks In The GOP’s Defenses
Via FiveThirtyEight.com Gaston County is made up of cities and towns filled with modest homes and businesses. Most of its...
SurveyMonkey’s interactive map: Who is winning the 2016 presidential election?
SurveyMonkey has launched an interactive map. The map can be filtered to show various voter screens: Likely votersRegistered votersLikely voters...
Kottke: How the Cretaceous coastline of North America affects US presidential elections
kottke.org draws attention to a post from Deep Sea News that highlights the connection between the Cretaceous coastline (100 million...
Vox: The bad map we see every presidential election
Vox put together a video showing the downsides of the traditional geographically accurate electoral map.
Naples News: Hillsborough: The Florida county that may decide this election
The Naples News takes a deeper look at Hillsborough county Hillsborough County is a model in miniature of the United...
Medium: The Midwest Isn’t Gerrymandered Because “All The Democrats Live In Big Cities”.
Medium brings the latest article on gerrymandering and tackles the geographic clustering component head on. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin...
USA Today's The Deciders: Clark County, Ohio – Reviving Rust Belt city in Ohio not convinced by Donald Trump's message
USA TODAY takes a close look at blue-collar voters in Clark County, Ohio. Clark is similar to many counties in...
Ad Age: The States Where Clinton and Trump Are Advertising the Most Until Election Day
Advertising Age provides another update on where Clinton and Trump are focusing their advertising budgets and as with previous updates...
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 15 days to the election
The 2016 Presidential election is just 15 days away and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is currently the favorite over Republican...
Early Voting Update – 10/23/2016
Early voting is underway and nearly 6 million votes have already been cast. via NBCNews.com Washington Post: In several key...
CNN's Critical counties: Jefferson County, Colorado, underscores Trump's rocky chances
CNN calls out Jefferson County, Colorado, home to the populous Denver metro area. If Donald Trump is going to win...
USA Today's The Deciders: Union County, Iowa – If people in any place yearn to be made great again, it’s in rural America
USA TODAY takes a close look at Union County, Iowa to check in on rural voters. While rural voters are...
Pew Research Center: Mapping the Latino Electorate by State and Congressional District
The Pew Research Center has put together interactive maps showing the Latino electorate by state and congressional district. A record...
USA Today's The Deciders: Chester County, Pennsylvania – A suburban tide against Trump could sink his election bid
USA TODAY takes a close look Chester County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia and home to the type of suburban...
The New Blue and Red: Educational Split Is Replacing the Culture War
The New York Times takes a look at the educational divide between Democratic and Republican voters, which shows an opportunity...
USA Today's The Deciders: Maricopa County, Arizona – In an Arizona county, anger at Trump spurs Latinos to vote
USA TODAY takes a close look Maricopa County, Arizona, home to Phoenix and more than 40% Latino. Perhaps no place...
Washington Post: Everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. foreign assistance budget
The Washington Post dives into the $42 billion dollars budgeted for foreign assistance in 2017. we have laid out where...
USA Today's The Deciders: Wayne County, Michigan – Trump, Clinton each face challenges courting African-American vote in Detroit
USA TODAY takes a close look Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detrout and a majority African-American county. Democratic votes by...
What This 2012 Map Can Tell Us About the 2016 Election
The New York Times examines the similarity between the 2012 election results and where gay marriage accounts for a higher...
CNN’s Critical counties: Vigo, Indiana, knows how to pick ’em
CNN calls out Vigo County, Indiana, which has voted for the presidential winner since 1956. Vigo County, Indiana, is used...
Unemployment in America, Mapped from 1990 to 2016
Flowing Data put together a video showing changes in unemployment in America from 1990 to 2016. We often hear about...
Think Progress: If the election is really rigged, 33 states are rigged by Republicans
Think Progress notes the party in charge of each election by state and highlights that the majority of elections will...
USA Today's The Deciders: Larimer County, Colorado – Here's where fed-up Millennials are thinking about putting their votes
USA TODAY takes a close look Larimer County, Colorado, which is home to Fort Collins and representative of unaffiliated millennials...
CNN's Critical counties: Wake County, NC, could put up a fight
CNN highlights Wake County, North Carolina as fairly representative of the country "in terms of race and ethnicity, but it...
Daily Kos: How gerrymandering cost Democrats the House in 2012: An interactive look at alternative maps
Stephen Wolf at Daily Kos put together detailed analysis on the impact gerrymandering had on the House in 2012. In...
Business Insider: Here's each US state's most important international trading partner
International trade has been brought up frequently during the 2016 presidential campaign and Business Insider takes a look at what...
AJC: How Georgia went from blue to red
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has put together a map showing how Georgia's counties have voted for president between 1992 and 2012....
CNN's Critical counties: Watch Allegheny County, PA, in this election
CNN draws attention to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, home to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was a treasure of the industrial age, and as...
538: One Pennsylvania County Sees The Future, And Not Everyone Likes It
FiveThirtyEight has an indepth feature on Berks County, Pennsylvania, which is a majority minority county. By 2044, the U.S. will...
USA Today's The Deciders: Waukesha County, Wisconsin – Ultra-red Wisconsin county struggles with Trump
USA TODAY takes a close look at GOP "base" voters in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee Trump needs...
Senate 2016: Where the races stand – Washington Post
The Washington Post provides a good overview of the race for control of the Senate. Click through for the interactive...
Brennan Center: New Voting Restrictions in Place for 2016 Presidential Election
The Brennan Center for Justice has documented 14 states with new voting restrictions in place for the 2016 presidential election....
CNN's Critical counties: Genesee, Michigan, and the 2016 election
CNN CNN Editor's Note:Critical Counties is a CNN series exploring 11 counties around the country that chief national correspondent John...
DCist: The History Of The Senate's Sweet Candy Desk
DCist.com provides some sweeter political coverage and some interesting history of the "Candy Desk". With Election Day just around the...
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 22 days to the election
The 2016 Presidential election is just 22 days away and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is currently the clear favorite over...
CNN's Critical counties: Cuyahoga County, Ohio, could be Clinton's bright spot
CNN takes a closer look at Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which is home to Cleveland and where Hillary Clinton will need...
538: Watch New Hampshire For Signs Of A Trump Comeback
FiveThirtyEight examines New Hampshire's importance on the electoral map for Hillary Clinton and how it might signal Donald Trump's comeback....
CNN's Critical counties: Prince William, Virginia, a long-term warning to the GOP
CNN takes a look at the Virgina county of Prince William as one that will be key to Hillary Clinton's...
Washington Post: Here’s how good a shot Democrats have of actually winning the House
The Washington Post provides an update on the House races and the chances of it flipping from Republican to Democratic...
CNN's Critical counties: Stark County, Ohio, is a swing county in a swing state
CNN highlights Stark County, Ohio as place to watch to determine who will win Ohio and the nation. The quintessential...
Ad Age: The Hard Math of the Trump Campaign's Last-Minute TV and Radio Ad Strategy
Advertising Age provides an update on the where TV and radio spending is concentrated. ... a Sept. 24 Associated Press...