In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.