Author: Joel Williams
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Republican wins runoff for Texas House District 28
Gary Gates (R) defeated Elizabeth Markowitz (D) 58-42 in the runoff election for the District 28 seat in the Texas House of Representatives. Before the runoff, The Hayride, a conservative political commentary site, described the race as "a test case to see if [Republicans] can hold turf in the 'urban suburbs' of Houston." ABC 13…
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Bernie Sanders leads Democratic pageviews for third week as all Democratic pageviews decline
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…
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Bernie Sanders leads Democratic pageviews for second consecutive week; Deval Patrick sees biggest increase in pageviews
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…
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Tester endorses Cooney in MT governor primary
On Saturday, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) endorsed Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney in the Democratic primary for Governor of Montana. Term-limited Gov. Steve Bullock (D) previously endorsed Cooney in October 2019. Whitney Williams also has noteworthy endorsements in this race, from EMILY's List, former Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau (D), and Missoula Mayor John…
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Bernie Sanders leads Democratic pageviews after Andrew Yang led for previous three weeks
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…
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January 14's state legislative special elections are the first of 27 scheduled this year
Thirteen state legislative special elections are taking place this January, including races for six seats in five states on Tuesday, January 14. This is the most state legislative special elections in January since Ballotpedia began comprehensively covering them in 2011. In 2019, by comparison, seven special elections were held in January. Twenty-seven special elections have…
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Virginia becomes Democratic trifecta as legislators are sworn in
Legislators elected in Virginia's 2019 elections were sworn into office on Wednesday, January 8. As a result, Democrats now have control of both chambers of the legislature and, alongside Gov. Ralph Northam (D), a Democratic state government trifecta. A state government trifecta is a term to describe when one political party controls both chambers of…
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Andrew Yang leads Democratic pageviews for third straight week, Booker sees the biggest change from previous week
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…
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After 23 December district court confirmations, Trump has second-most federal judicial appointments by end of a president's third year
Donald Trump appointed and the Senate confirmed 187 Article III federal judges through December 31, 2019, his third year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in a presidency of all presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. Only Jimmy Carter (197) had more. The average number of federal…
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One 2020 Congressional retirement announced last week; 2,115 major party candidates filed for 2020 races
Last week, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) announced he was retiring in 2020, making him the 19th Republican member of the U.S. House to do so. To date, four Senators (three Republicans and one Democrat) and 32 Representatives (23 Republicans and nine Democrats) are not running for re-election. In 2018, 55 total members of Congress—18 Democrats…