As the end of the year approaches, it’s difficult not to see the two parties heading in very different directions.
Democrats have emerged from the 2012 elections stronger, while Republicans look poorly positioned and divided.
Politics, of course, is famous for its ups and downs, its…
Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate successor has already been announced, but the influential political action committee he founded has no plans to replace him.
The Senate Conservatives Fund helped vault the junior senator from South Carolina to the national stage when he founded it in 2008. But while…
Wow, what a political cycle. It was filled with twists, turns and surprises.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses — until he didn’t (almost two weeks after the actual balloting, when former Sen. Rick Santorum was certified as the winner).
After finishing a distant…
With days left in 2012, the Senate class of 2014 is already evolving and growing.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R) resignation and Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye’s (D) death adds two special elections to the next class and another seat for each party to defend.
Once again, Democrats are…
After an election cycle that saw tens of thousands of television ads and millions of dollars of candidate spending in the Old Dominion, the worst may be yet to come for Virginia voters.
Off-year gubernatorial contests in the commonwealth have been nasty, brutish, and yes, short, in the past.…
Four years ago, Chris Christie became the first Republican to get elected governor of the Garden State in a decade, but he failed to reach 49 percent against an unpopular incumbent. Next year, the governor could win re-election, but it might it be considered a wind-aided victory from Hurricane…
Establishment Republicans in Washington breathed a sigh of relief with the surprise announcement last week by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint that he would resign at the beginning of the year to take the helm of the Heritage Foundation.
But with GOP Gov. Nikki Haley set to name his successor…
Reality television shows don’t have as colorful a cast of characters as the upcoming special election in Illinois’s 2nd District.
Vying for the chance to succeed the mired-in-scandal former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the field includes his predecessor, who resigned in the wake of a statutory rape…
The next Congress isn’t even sworn in yet, and Missouri Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R) is the second Member to head for the exits. But the race to replace her will take place behind closed doors and on the telephone.
Emerson said she would resign her 8th District seat in February to head up the…
History tends to be re-written after an election, I’ve found, so let’s take a quick look at what happened and what we got right – and wrong.
Eighteen months before the election, Democrats were worried. With the economy slow, the job market softening and the party defending 23 of 33 Senate seats…
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