Politics Is Everything

Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the Center for Politics, talks about redistricting, the special election in Alaska and new ratings for House of Representative seats. Links in this episode:  Notes on the State of Politics: Sept. 7, 2022, https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/notes-on-the-state-of-politics-sept-7-2022/   

In August, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) became the seventh House Republican to fall to a Donald Trump-backed challenger since 2018. Rep. Cheney has taken a prominent role in calling for accountability for the January 6, 2021 insurrection and calling out false election narratives. In this episode, we talk with Leah Askarinam, senior editor at Grid News , about the extent to which and where have...

In Sabato's Crystal Ball this week, Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman write that Democrats are hoping to make the 2022 election more of a choice than a referendum. Democrats are benefiting from some damaged Republican candidates in several key races as well as the emergence of abortion as a key issue in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. In this episode, they discuss how the polit...

What would American democracy look like if everyone participated? Americans turned out to vote in record numbers in the 2020 presidential election and turnout has been on the rise in other recent elections. However, voter turnout in the United States still lags behind other countries. In this episode, we discuss 100% Democracy:  The Case for Universal Voting with co-authors Miles Rapoport, executi...

In the lead up to the 2020 election, the Pew Research Center asked voters whether they would split their ticket , that is to select a Republican for one office and a Democrat for another. Just 4% of registered voters said they would do so. Less than four percent of members of the House of Representatives (16 of 435) represent districts that voted for the opposing party's presidential nominee in 20...

Tim Miller is an MSNBC analyst, writer-at-large at The Bulwark , and the host of "Not My Party" on Snapchat . Tim was communications director for Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign and spokesman for the Republican National Committee during Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign. He has since left the GOP and become one of the leaders of the "Never Trump" movement. He is author of Why We Did It: A Travelog...

The president's party has lost governorships in 16 of the 19 midterm elections since World War II. In this episode, Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball discusses the most competitive gubernatorial races in 2022. He shares how a variety of factors - including presidential approval, incumbency, the state of economy and other issues, the year in which gubernatorial elections are hel...

The difference in experience among Senate candidates is one of the story lines Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, is following in the 2022 midterm elections. As a group, Republican Senate (and gubernatorial) candidates have less experience running for office and than do Democratic candidates on the slate this election. How will candidate experience and qualities impact election...

Introducing Politics is Everything, a new podcast from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.