Third-party candidates have played a big role in deciding key presidential battleground states in the last few years — meaning which (and how many) candidates will actually be on the ballot state by ...

Carolina Journal’s first post-primary survey is out. It shows our state’s 2024 general elections will be, as usual, quite competitive. That’s not to say North Carolina’s electorate is perfectly purple ...

"Democrats are taking nothing for granted," one Democrat said. Less than a week before Election Day, third-party presidential candidates still present an unknown factor in key swing states where ...

The swing voter is back — but in a new form. Earlier in the 21st century, the dominant view among experts was that swing voters — those who might switch their party preference between elections — were ...

With polls showing the presidential election a toss up, the votes that third-party and independent candidates receive in key states could very well decide the White House. Those vote shares could be ...

The Democratic party is scrambling to boot a fringe socialist group’s presidential candidate from statewide ballots in a pair of critical swing states. Operatives launched two legal challenges in ...

Democrats are finding themselves in an increasingly perilous position heading into the 2022 midterms. There has recently been a marked decline in overall support for President Biden and his ...

Frustrated swing-district House Democrats say they have warned for years that the party was at risk of losing working-class voters thanks, in large part, to GOP attacks on the border. But they say ...