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Podcast: On the Ballot
Episode: How split ticket voting impacted races across the country
Description: On this episode: Split-ticket voting, also known as ticket splitting, occurs when voters choose candidates from different parties in a single election — voting Republican Donald Trump for president and Democratic congressional candidates, for example. In today’s partisan political landscape, many outlets and pundits did not expect there to be significant levels of split ticket voting this cycle. Though as the dust settles nearly a month after the election, ticket splitting looks to have played a big role in some of the tightest races.Â
Kyle Kondik — managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the Univer...