My Work
You can find my current work at InsideElections.com, and be sure to follow me on Twitter @JacobRubashkin.
The Recipe for a GOP Upset: New York’s 4th Congressional District
How Anthony D’Esposito won the most Democratic district of any Republican in 2022.
The 6,670-Vote Majority: How Republicans Barely Won the House
Republicans won control of the House of Representatives by historically narrow margin.
Mike Bloomberg is spending big in his presidential bid. Here’s how other self-funders fared.
The former New York City mayor is on pace to smash self-funding records. But can he succeed where so many others have fallen short?
INDEPENDENT ALASKA SENATE CANDIDATE LOOKS TO BEAT THE ODDS
Only three senators in modern history have been elected as an independent. Can this Alaskan orthopedic surgeon and fisherman be the fourth?
They Voted to Impeach Their Own Party’s President — And Lived to Tell the Tale
Will any Republicans vote with House Democrats to impeach President Trump? I take a look back at America’s last two impeachments, and at the eventual fates of the 12 members of Congress who voted to impeach a president of their own party.
Prominent New York Dems face a new crop of young primary challengers for 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the political world when she scored an upset victory against the powerful Joe Crowley in Queens. Now, a new generation of congressional hopefuls are taking on the remaining members of the New York City establishment. I take a look at what makes these new challengers similar, and unique.
Trio of Senate candidates stare down history as they look to rebound from high-profile House losses | NBC
As three high-profile House candidates from 2018 — Jon Ossoff, MJ Hegar, and Amy McGrath — turn their sights to the Senate, I took a look back at the last 40 years of Senate elections to see how House losers fare when running for the upper house. Appeared on the NBC Politics Website on September 19, 2019.
Voters head to the polls in 7 states: What to watch | CNN
A primer for primary elections taking place on June 26, 2018 in South Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Colorado, New York, and Utah. This article, which correctly predicted electoral trouble for New York Democrats Joe Crowley and Yvette Clarke, appeared on the CNN.com homepage and was one of the top-performing articles on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
Primaries in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin: What to watch | CNN
A primer for primary elections taking place on August 14, 2018 in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. This article appeared on the CNN.com homepage on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 and was one of the top-performing articles on that day.
Cornell Needs a Tenants’ Rights Clinic | The Cornell Daily Sun
This editorial capped off a series of articles written in The Cornell Daily Sun exposing the serious deficiencies within the University’s housing policy. The laissez-faire attitude of Cornell’s administration toward upperclassmen housing resulted in predatory landlords providing inadequate homes for thousands of students; this editorial pushed for a Cornell Law School legal clinic focused on tenants’ rights to help balance the playing field. Soon after publication, Cornell announced it was actively considering the idea.
Why The Supreme Court Should Let Cornell Live Stream Sotomayor | The Cornell Daily Sun
This editorial was published after it was announced that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would be speaking at Cornell. The University’s original notice stated that only a limited number of tickets would be available, and that the talk would neither be recorded nor taped, at the request of the court itself. This editorial decried the lack of accessibility to such an important event. Shortly after the editorial was published, Cornell announced a change in its policy, reversing itself and providing both a simulcast and a recorded version of the talk.
Assorted Columns and Editorials | The Cornell Daily Sun
Over my four years at The Cornell Daily Sun, I served as a staff columnist, opinion editor, and then editor-in-chief. In that time, I wrote dozens of columns and editorials that are available for reading on The Sun’s website. My columns are published under my own name, and my editorials, which are published unsigned, ran from January 2017 through December 2018.