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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…

A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the District 13 seat in the Georgia State Senate on February 4, 2020. The general runoff is on March 3 if no candidate receives a majority of the February vote, and the filing deadline is on January 6.

A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the 37th Middlesex District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on March 31, 2020. The primary is on March 3, and the filing deadline is on January 28.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised its Democratic counterpart by more than two-to-one for a seventh consecutive month, while the Democratic House committee outraised its Republican counterpart, according to December 2019 campaign finance reports filed with the FEC. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) raised $6.2 million and spent $3.2 million last month, while the…

As of December 30, 2019, 2,164 major party candidates have filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to run for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 2020. So far, 319 candidates are filed to run for Senate. Of those, 272—143 Democrats and 129 Republicans—are from one of the two major political parties. In…

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers show which candidates are getting our readers’ attention. Andrew Yang’s campaign page on Ballotpedia received 1,605 views for the week of December 22-28. Yang’s pageview figure represents 14.5% of the presidential campaign pageviews for the week. Bernie Sanders…

Two new state legislative special elections have been added to our list. The special elections are for the District 67 and 99 seats in the Kentucky House of Representatives on February 25, 2020. There are no primaries, and the deadline for parties to nominate candidates is January 7. A new state legislative special election has…

The Democratic National Committee released the criteria to qualify for the January 14, 2020, presidential primary debate, raising both the polling and fundraising thresholds. Each candidate has to receive 5% support or more in at least four national or early state polls or 7% support or more in at least two single state polls to…

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on December 10 unanimously rejected an Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) process for approving new e-cigarette products. An e-cigarette manufacturer joined with an e-cigarette advocacy group to sue the FDA, arguing that the agency violated…

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers show which candidates are getting our readers’ attention. Andrew Yang’s campaign page on Balloptedia received 2,421 views for the week of December 15-21. Yang’s pageview figure represents 11.7% of the pageviews for the week. Amy Klobuchar had 10.1%…