Todd Carney

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  • May 2, 2022
    American elections from more than 100 years ago may not offer much of a guide for the best digital-outreach strategy or how much money a campaign needs to raise, but the old adage...
  • April 22, 2022
    The single most predictive factor for midterm election results is a sitting president's approval rating. According to the RCP Average, President Biden's current approval rating has...
  • April 1, 2022
    Secretary of state races in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and other states could prove pivotal to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Stakes have never been higher, in part...
  • March 21, 2022
    This is the era of the "new" permanent campaign, says author and pollster Michael D. Cohen. The idea comes from a term coined by Jimmy Carter's pollster (and later Trump whisperer)...
  • March 11, 2022
    In today’s fast-paced news cycle, it can be hard to remember what happened last week, let alone decades ago. Michael Kazin’s "What It Took to Win: A History of the...
  • February 14, 2022
    Most Americans lack the time to look beyond what the national media are covering. David Pepper’s book Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the...
  • January 4, 2022
    Over the last year, the debate over elections and voting rights has been poisoned by name-calling and conspiracy theories, distracting from the legitimate issues concerning...