Year: 2024
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Five candidates are running in the nonpartisan primary for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024
Five candidates are running in the nonpartisan primary for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024. Quentin Anderson (D), Cleo Fields(D), and Elbert Guillory (R) lead in endorsements and media attention. Incumbent Rep. Garret Graves (R), who was first elected in 2014, is not running for re-election. The election will take place under a…
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Joe Biden ends Sept. with highest presidential approval rating since Sept. 2023
At the end of Sept., approval polling averages showed President Joe Biden (D) at 42% approval. Fifty-five percent of voters disapproved of his performance. This was the highest approval rating Biden has received since Sept. 2023. Throughout Sept., Biden’s approval rating ranged from 41% to 42%. The lowest approval rating he’s received during his presidency…
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Right-to-abortion ballot measure campaigns reported 10 times more in contributions than opposition campaigns in 2024 so far
Voters in ten states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota—will decide on 11 abortion-related ballot measures in Nov. 2024. This is the most on record for a single year. Ten of these measures would provide for a state constitutional right to abortion, while one measure would place a constitutional…
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Incumbent Deb Fischer (R) and Dan Osborn (I) are running in the general election for U.S. Senate in Nebraska
Incumbent Deb Fischer (R) and Dan Osborn (Independent) are running in the general election for U.S. Senate in Nebraska on Nov. 5, 2024. Fischer was first elected in 2012. No Democratic candidate filed to run. According to Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb, the party decided not to run a candidate after talks with Osborn.…
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Incumbent Mary Peltola (D), Eric Hafner (D), Nicholas Begich (R), and John Howe (Alaskan Independence Party) are running in the general election for U.S. House of Representatives in Alaska
Incumbent Mary Peltola (D), Eric Hafner (D), Nicholas Begich (R), and John Howe (Alaskan Independence Party) are running in the general election for U.S. House of Representatives in Alaska on Nov. 5, 2024. Peltola and Begich lead in polling, fundraising, and local media attention. Peltola defeated Begich and Sarah Palin (R) in a special election…
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General elections for half of the Alaska Senate’s twenty seats will take place in November
General elections for the Alaska state Senate will take place on Nov. 5, 2024. Ten of the chamber’s 20 seats are up for election. Senators serve four-year terms, and half of the Senate is up for election every two years. Of the seats up for election in 2024, Democrats hold five and Republicans hold five.…
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Berkley, Seaman vie for Las Vegas mayor in Nov. 5 general election
Shelley Berkley and Victoria Seaman are running in the general election for mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 5, 2024. Berkley and Seaman were the top-two vote-getters in the June 11, 2024, primary, and both advanced to the general election because neither won a majority of the votes. Incumbent Carolyn Goodman, who was first elected in 2011, is term-limited. Goodman’s…