2022 Midterms Coverage

Governor Brian Dahle is an American politician and farmer who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 1st district since 2019. Before his election to the state legislature, Dahle served on the Lassen County Board of Supervisors from 1997 to 2012. Recently Dahle blamed Newsom’s policies for the state’s highest-in-the-nation gasoline prices, struggling public schools, unreliable electrical grid and affordability problems....

New Mexico's House race in Congressional District 2, featuring Republican incumbent Yvette Herrell who ran against Democrat Gabe Vasquez, was a tight one. Vasquez clinched the seat by less than one point, giving the state a clean sweep of Democratic lawmakers in Washington once again. Herell ran on the issues of securing the border, fighting crime, and tackling inflation. Vasquez painted Herell as...

A Change in Voting Systems Nevada, a key swing state, voted to implement ranked voting. Final Five Voting is a new primary election setup that gets rid of partisan primaries, re-enfranchises voters, and eliminates plurality voting. Rather than divisive, essentially pre-determined party primaries, ranked voting gives all competitors a fair chance and all voters a more direct voice. On their ballot, voters rank their choices in the primary, t...

Governor Republican-turned-Democrat candidate Charlie Crist was hoping that his third try in the Florida governor’s race would lead to victory. Republican incumbent governor DeSantis, didn’t look like he was going to be going down easy. As of now, Florida’s legislature is controlled unilaterally by the Republican party. Stakes were high for DeSantis, especially with increased talk of his po...

Attorney General In the Michigan attorney general race, incumbent Dana Nessel (D) ran against Matthew DePerno (R). As of an October 26-28 poll, Nessel held a one-percentage lead over DePerno, 44%-43%. Before the election, it appeared that Nessel had the edge over DePerno in this race.  Nessel is a former assistant prosecutor in Wayne Country and defense attorney. She became well-known for her...

Governor Three key races occurred in our neighboring state to the west, Arizona – the contest for governor, featuring Republican candidate Kari Lake up against Democrat incumbent secretary of state Katie Hobbs for the seat formerly held by Republican Doug Ducey, who is prohibited from running again due to term limits, former astronaut and incumbent Senator Mark Kelly running against Republican Bl...

Senate Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker have gone at each other's throats for months now, as they competed for a senate seat in Georgia. Warnock, a Democrat, is Georgia’s incumbent senator. He won his seat in a runoff election against Republican candidate Kelly Loeffler on January 5, 2021. Warnock has been the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2005. He is an outspoken aborti...