Perry Bacon

Progressive Elijah Manley says that South Florida needs a bolder representative than longtime congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

In 2004, not many people imagined Senators Brown and Baldwin and President Obama. America's voters often progress more quickly than we expect.

Writer Jonathan Guyer says that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is presenting a different foreign policy vision than previous Democrats who have ran for president.

There are certain states where the party's brand is so toxic that they just ought to let independents run and win. At least they're not Republicans.

The party doesn't just need to secure 51 Senate seats—it needs 52. Fortunately, there is a visible path.

The political skills that have helped Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong surge in Democratic primaries suggest that they will be solid general election candidates too.

Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin’s Francesca Hong are showing that innovative campaign tactics help candidates outside of progressive strongholds too.

It's an earthquake to have Bernie Sanders's candidate defeat Gretchen Whitmer's candidate in Michigan. But the real goal is to keep Donald Trump's candidate from winning this seat.

Abdul El-Sayed's narrow win in the primary may not portend much for the general election, particularly if the entire Democratic Party unifies around him.

Political scientists Seth Masket and Julia Azari say the super-close contest between El-Sayed and Stevens show a party where neither faction is dominant.