Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Last week, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping package of voting restrictions into law in Georgia. The new regulations — including a ban on giving food and water to voters in line and an ID requirement for absentee voting — drew harsh condemnation from Democrats, voting-rights advocates and…

Moderate politicians are becoming an endangered species. The most liberal Republican in Congress nowadays is still ideologically to the right of the most conservative Democrat, reflecting the fact that the median voters in each party are drifting further and further apart as well. But if winning elections were the only consideration, the parties likely wouldn’t…

We’re barely two months removed from the last election of 2020, but Saturday marks the first congressional elections of the 2022 midterms: a pair of special elections for Louisiana’s 2nd and 5th districts. While there’s little question about which party will ultimately win each seat — the 2nd District is solidly Democratic, the 5th solidly…

Last week, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt became the fifth Republican senator to announce he is not running for reelection in 2022.1 That’s the most Republican retirements from the Senate in 12 years — and it’s only March 2021! And notably, no Democratic senators have yet announced their intentions to hang up their spurs. This has…