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With memories of embarrassments still fresh, election pollsters face big tests in 2022 midterm elections

When it became clear his poll had erred in the 2021 New Jersey governor’s race, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, acknowledged:

The Conversation

As early voting begins, pressure is on for Beto O’Rourke to close the gap with Greg Abbott

O’Rourke has not had the upper hand in any polls, or even come within low single digits, compared with 2018, when he more regularly showed up within the margin of error against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

The Texas Tribune

A swing state no more? GOP confidence grows in Florida

Democrats are increasingly concerned that Florida may be slipping away this fall — and perhaps beyond — as emboldened Republicans seize on divisive cultural issues and demographic shifts in crucial contests for governor and the U.S. Senate

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$1B in dark money pumped into GOP '22

Stephen Miller, other Trump officials steering massive dark money into Pennsylvania and other key Senate races

Salon

Former allies, Patty Murray and Tiffany Smiley face off for US Senate

SEATTLE — Sen. Patty Murray was locked in her office in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 when she said she decided to run for a sixth term. If she wins she would be among the longest serving senators in U.S. history.

Tribune News Service

JD Vance's firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits

A high-tech sustainable food company in Appalachia that was promoted by JD Vance and financed with help from his venture capital firm is facing five lawsuits alleging it misled investors

The Independent UK

Georgia's GOP overhauled the state's election laws in 2021 – and critics argue the target was Black voter turnout, not election fraud

In the rash of election reform laws enacted after former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, few were tougher than SB 202 – the Election Integrity Act – passed in 2021 in Georgia, a state long known for its history of suppressing the Black…

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$118 million spent collecting signatures for 2022 ballot measures

Welcome to the Thursday, October 19, Brew.

Ballotpedia

An apartment building takes center stage in Georgia’s US Senate race

ATLANTA — An Atlanta apartment tower has become a flashpoint in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race as Republican Herschel Walker appeared there Tuesday to blame Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Ebenezer Baptist Church for trying to evict disadvantaged residents.

Tribune News Service

Takeaways from a contentious US Senate debate between Val Demings and Marco Rubio

MIAMI — Democratic Rep. Val Demings and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio argued over abortion rights, recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian and immigration policy on Tuesday night, in the lone debate of a contentious U.S. Senate race that’s set to conclude in three weeks.

Miami Herald

Ohio Senate race: Tim Ryan faces JD Vance in crucial election

Buckeye State’s voters could determine the balance of the US Senate

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How Georgia’s midterm runoff elections work

Control of the U.S. Senate could again come down to Georgia — and that means it could further come down to the state's runoff election rules

The Independent UK

Who’s leading the fundraising battle in Missouri’s US Senate race?

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has four times more money than his Democratic opponent, Trudy Busch Valentine, heading into the final month of the U.S. Senate campaign.

Tribune News Service

Trump slams Colorado Republican Senate candidate after Joe O’Dea says he wouldn’t back him for president

DENVER — The day after Republican U.S. Senate nominee Joe O’Dea said he’d “actively campaign against” Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, the former president lashed out at the candidate as a “RINO,” or Republican in name only.

The Denver Post

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fetterman has more campaign money than Oz heading into the end of a tight Pa. Senate race

PHILADELPHIA — Democrat John Fetterman had substantially more campaign money left to spend than Republican Mehmet Oz as they entered the final weeks of a close U.S. Senate race with national consequences.

Benzinga

Bernie Sanders Dismayed At Teen Cannabis Interest As Nevada Accepts Marijuana Lounges And More Regulatory Updates

Nevada Begins Accepting Cannabis Consumption Lounge Applications

Al Jazeera

US midterms: The 10 key races that will decide fate of the Senate

With 35 Senate seats up for grabs, Republicans are pushing to regain control of the chamber to frustrate Biden’s agenda.

Salon

"Electing John Fetterman is crucial"

"It's a big deal," one communications professional in the state said

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Biden, Harris to visit Philly to boost Pa. Dems

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Philadelphia on Oct. 28 to boost Pennsylvania Democrats up and down the ticket as the state hosts some of the country's most critical elections.

Tribune News Service

Walker and Warnock clash in Senate debate

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock on Friday night clashed over abortion, crime and truthfulness in their first — and likely only — debate as they battle for a seat that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

Chicago Tribune

GOP US Senate candidate’s name left off some ballots in rural Illinois county in now-corrected error

CHICAGO — Election officials in a small Illinois county southwest of Peoria printed the wrong name of the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on several hundred ballots, forcing the officials Wednesday to keep the ballots separate from all others being cast in the Nov. 8 general election.

Salon

Laxalt family members back his opponent

Laxalt's relatives did not even mention his name in their endorsement of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

Reason

In Arizona, Libertarian Party Senate Candidate Polls at 15 Percent

Marc Victor is gaining ground with a “live and let live” message.

Ballotpedia

What candidates are saying in Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Welcome to the Friday, October 14, Brew.

The Independent UK

Black leaders rebuke Tuberville stance on reparations, crime

As far as Jeremy Ellis is concerned, Republican Tommy Tuberville should know or learn more about the long history and struggles of the Black Alabama residents he represents in the U.S. Senate

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