In July 2025, the Democratic National Committee commissioned a report on why the party lost the 2024 presidential election. The party chose Paul Rivera of New York City to prepare the report. It is not yet complete, but it is close to being completed, and will probably be released in mid-November.
On October 9 and 10, a three-judge U.S. District Court held a trial in League of United Latin American Citizens v Abbott, w.d., 3:21cv-259. This is a challenge to the new U.S. House district boundaries, based on the Voting Rights Act. See this story.
On October 9, Donna Charles ended her campaign for Governor of Virginia. See this story. She had petitioned to be on the ballot, but did not have the needed 10,000 valid signatures. But she had been campaigning as a write-in, and a poll last month had showed her at 3%.
WHYY, the public broadcasting affiliate in Philadelphia, and which covers southern New Jersey, has this lengthy story about the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Governor of New Jersey.
So far mainstream media has not covered the Socialist Workers Party nominee for Governor of New Jersey, but perhaps there will be such stories in the next few weeks. There are only four candidates on the ballot for the November 4,, 2025 election.
This Daily News article shows the New York City sample ballot for Mayor. New York state has one of the worst ballot formats of any state. It is a party column ballot. The only other states that still use party column ballots are New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. All other states long ago switched to office group format, in which all the candidates for a particular office are listed clearly together.
