Bribery involves offering money to a particular person, but Trump did not make his $5,000 offer to any single voter or set of voters.
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In closely contested House and Senate races, even a small shift in union votes could influence the outcome.
After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.
Though Graham’s appointment may seem unusual, political inheritance has never been fully absent from American democracy.
Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers this November.
To manipulate voter perception, political action committees are adopting names that signal the opposite political goals from what those groups intend. And research shows the strategy is working.
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.
Why would a young Republican back solar but reject a carbon tax? Twenty years of survey data shows climate opinion is more complex than party labels suggest.
Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they had been.
While discord exists over the meaning of the 250th anniversary, Americans strongly believe there is more that unites the country than divides it.
Graham Platner’s Senate campaign has imploded amid credible accusations of rape. A Maine political scientist looks at what happened and how the populist Platner resembles Donald Trump in key ways.
Polarization and negative partisanship have lowered the standards for whom Americans are willing to support.
The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
Campaign contributions among House members show how parties build influence, protect vulnerable members and respond to election pressures.
Some states are trying to challenge a long-held precedent that undocumented children are allowed to attend public school free of charge.
The Democrats have a good chance at winning both houses of Congress, but the Republicans still have some advantages.
Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again in an election do-over.
The Supreme Court has barred considering race when crafting legislative districts. But race could remain embedded in political gerrymandering, despite vehement claims to the contrary.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson, two of the Maga movement’s most prominent figures, have broken with Trump in recent months.
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