Leon Sit

• 5/17 Primary Watchlist: Statewide

  May 17, 2022

  The five states that will be featured in today’s article are Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Oregon. Kentucky polls will fully close at 7:00 EST, North Carolina’s at 7:30 EST, Pennsylvania’s at 8:00 EST, and Oregon’s and Idaho’s at 11:00 EST. Senate All three of Oregon, Kentucky, and Idaho’s… Read More

  Lakshya Jain and Leon Sit

• 5/10 Primary Roundup

  May 13, 2022

  Nebraska Governor Last Tuesday, businessman Jim Pillen secured Nebraska’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, beating Trump-endorsed rival Charles Herbster by just over three percent. This is the first blemish on Trump’s endorsement record, as the Nebraska establishment largely lined up behind Pillen. Herbster’s loss could be attributed to voters being more selective… Read More

  Harrison Lavelle and Leon Sit

• The 5/10 Primary Watchlist: Nebraska and West Virginia

  May 10, 2022

  Introduction This week’s edition of Watchlist brings us to two lesser-populated states with strongly Republican leanings: Nebraska and West Virginia. Neither one uses runoffs, so candidates will only need pluralities of the vote to secure their nominations. Last week’s contests in Ohio and Indiana reignited this year’s primary season after a… Read More

  Leon Sit and Harrison Lavelle

• 5/3 Primary Roundup

  May 6, 2022

  Senate After months of anxious waiting, the Republican Senate primary is finally over. Trump-endorsed venture capitalist J.D. Vance finished first with 32.2% of the vote, performing well in rural Ohio and the post-industrial working class Mahoning Valley. Josh Mandel came in second with 23.9%, and was generally the second choice… Read More

  Harrison Lavelle, Leon Sit and Lakshya Jain

• The 5/3 Primary Watchlist: Ohio and Indiana

  May 3, 2022

  Introduction For this week’s edition of Watchlist, we return from a two-month primary dry spell and turn our attention to two Rust Belt states whose primaries will resume the 2022 primary election season. Indiana and Ohio voters will head to the polls on May 3rd to nominate their slates of… Read More

  Harrison Lavelle, Lakshya Jain and Leon Sit

• Breaking Down the Cisneros vs Cuellar Runoff in Texas’ 28th district

  March 25, 2022

  On March 1, Texas kicked off the 2022 election cycle with a bang by holding its first-in-the-nation primaries. But in a blockbuster schedule that included hotly-contested statewide races, perhaps no election gathered as much attention as the major ideological showdown between Jessica Cisneros and Henry Cuellar in the Democratic primary… Read More

  Lakshya Jain and Leon Sit