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Despite a robust recovery and low unemployment, polling reveals a disconnect between economic reality and voter perception.

The politically split Pennsylvania town shows why the race is so close – and it’s unclear whether the president’s legacy will be enough to carry Harris over the line

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's expected return to the campaign trail comes as issues such as abortion rights and gun violence have taken on a new intensity.

Activists on both sides of the abortion debate have spent months planning for a blockbuster Supreme Court ruling this year on Roe v. Wade. None of those plans anticipated the particular jolt on Monday night, when a leaked draft opinion signaled a decisive end to the decadeslong precedent.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has pulled ahead as the Democratic U.S. Senate front-runner over U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, while the GOP primary for the country's most-watched Senate race remains wide open, according to a Franklin & Marshall College Poll released Thursday.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary began for real over the last few days.

WASHINGTON — Doctors and demographers recently noticed another tragic example of how polarization shapes America: The pandemic has killed more people in the nation’s Republican enclaves than its Democratic strongholds. They explain the gap by pointing to Republican resistance to vaccines and the GOP’s more cavalier approach to combating the…

“Polls are blunt instruments, not precision instruments,” pollsters remind us. So can they account for the changing demographics of COVID-19?