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Why do scandal-plagued candidates win?

Graham Platner and Ken Paxton won primaries despite well-known flaws — and they just might win in November

Salon · Jun 21

Americans keep voting for scandal-prone candidates because they just don’t want the other party to win

Every election cycle sees its share of controversial, scandal-plagued candidates running for office. But the 2026 midterm elections will feature two such candidates – one from each party – in two of the highest-profile U.S. Senate races.

The Conversation · Jun 18

‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as mask mandates were in some cases misguided

The Guardian - US · Apr 5, 2025

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House GOP had lowest win rate on ‘party unity’ votes since 1982 - Roll Call

CQ Roll Call Vote Studies found the House GOP last year had the lowest rate of a majority party winning “unity votes” since 1982.

Roll Call · Feb 8, 2024

¿Y si el Congreso no está atrapado en un estancamiento partidista? ¿Qué pasa si se está haciendo mucho?

WASHINGTON – Todos sabemos, de hecho, que el Congreso no puede hacer mucho. Siempre está estancado, bloqueado, trabado en una lucha partidista, cada partido marchando al unísono, listo para entablar una lucha una vez más e impedir que el otro lado destruya a Estados Unidos.

Tribune News Service · Mar 7, 2022

What if Congress isn’t hopelessly locked in partisan gridlock? What if it’s getting a lot done?

WASHINGTON — We all know, for a fact, that Congress can’t get much done. It’s always deadlocked, gridlocked, locked in a partisan fight, each party marching in lockstep, ready to lock horns once more to block the other side from destroying America.

Tribune News Service · Mar 6, 2022

What if Congress isn’t hopelessly locked in partisan gridlock? What if it’s getting a lot done? - Roll Call

Raw page numbers may seem like a crude measure. But as lawmakers pack more into fewer but bigger bills, it’s one way to measure productivity.

Roll Call · Mar 3, 2022

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