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The supposed anti-incumbent wave that started last week in Ohio stopped on Tuesday in the heart of Dixie.
While five incumbents faced varying degrees of primary challenges in Alabama and Mississippi, each turned away their intraparty challenge with relative ease and avoided runoffs. All occupy…
It’s not at all surprising, given the media’s concentration on the fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party between tea party conservatives and the GOP’s more pragmatic conservative wing, that most journalists have completely ignored the ideological fights within the Democratic Party…
Utah’s primary isn’t for another three months, but Sen. Orrin Hatch’s electoral fate could be sealed next week.
The six-term GOP senator is trying to avoid following in the footsteps of his colleague, Bob Bennett, who not only lost reelection in 2010, but failed to make it out of his party’s…
California, Texas and Florida get the most of the attention when it comes to redistricting, but Republican efforts in North Carolina could be a key state in keeping their party in the majority.
By decreasing the Republican percentage in districts they already control, the GOP was able to…
In North Carolina’s gubernatorial race, Republicans wanted to take on the incumbent. For months, Gov. Bev Perdue (D) struggled to gain any traction and GOP strategists saw the Tar Heel State as a ripe takeover opportunity. Now that the governor announced she wouldn’t seek a second term,…
More than two months after the race for the Republican nomination began in Iowa, the contest remains stuck. That’s both good and bad news for the leader in the Republican race.
No one in the GOP contest is able to overtake Mitt Romney, but the former Massachusetts governor seems incapable of…