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The first newspapers of Butler County were very different from what people today would think of as a newspaper. According to “The Press and America” by Edwin Emery, early newspapers were small weekly ...

The state’s 2028 primary is likely to be important, and is already on the minds of some Democrats. By Katie Glueck At a lunch last week in Charleston, a group of South Carolina Democratic lawmakers ...

Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates ...

Our Back Pages / The candidate may have started as a long-shot contender, but The Nation always took him—and his impact on political history—seriously. Richard Kreitner In the spring of 1983, as the ...

Starting in North Carolina on Tuesday, older House Democrats face a test of their staying power and the appetite of voters to ...

CNN data reporter Harry Enten presents poll numbers on how the electorate feels about the Democratic Party. KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: So, we are weeks away from the first primaries of the midterm ...

Early last year, polls and media commentary suggested that crime would be the defining issue of the New York City mayoral race. Then, Zohran Mamdani’s campaign started to take off. By the end of the ...

The early race is wide open.

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Longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson has won the Democratic nomination for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District.

In an interview that aired Sunday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) urged his party to take a more aggressive governing posture to fight back against the Trump administration and regain popularity.