Not long ago, Democrats and organized labor were railing against Wal-mart as the arch nemesis of organized labor. Now, President Barack Obama has tapped a high-level Wal-Mart official to be a member of his Cabinet and put her at the forefront of one of the most important issues of the day. What…
Multiple media outlets are reporting that former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown, a Republican, hasn’t ruled out a bid for the Senate next year in New Hampshire.
I haven’t ruled out lots of things in my life that I don’t intend to do and am pretty sure I won’t do, and if that’s all that Brown…
The jobs numbers just reported for March — an increase of only 88,000 jobs — are horrendous, especially coming after February’s strong job surge (236,000 new jobs revised up to 268,000).
Forget the unemployment rate sliding from 7.7 percent to 7.6 percent. As The Associated Press noted, that…
Rarely does one House race have a national impact, but that is the case in Utah’s 4th District.
In 2012, Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love came within 768 votes of knocking off Rep. Jim Matheson (D) and becoming the first black Republican woman to serve in Congress.
Her loss came as a surprise…
Tucson has been the site of hard-fought congressional contests for the past four cycles. But it was an off-year incident that may have cast the largest pall on politics in southern Arizona -- and ultimately had the biggest effect on the 2012 race.
On January 8, 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D)…
National Republicans accepted the political reality a long time ago that disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford could well be their nominee in South Carolina’s 1st District special election. With the May 7 election against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch now set, they’re going to have to do…
Florida 2. Sunshine State Democratic scion Gwen Graham announced her bid against sophomore Rep. Steve Southerland (R) this week. A Leon County school district administrator, Graham is the daughter of former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham.
Georgia Senate. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R)…
The campaign of Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democratic nominee for the special election in South Carolina’s 1st District, released a poll Monday. As with all polls, context matters, so be careful before jumping to conclusions either way.
Conducted for the campaign by Lake Research Partners,…
Mark Sanford cleared another hurdle Tuesday on his way to political redemption, winning the GOP runoff against former Charleston City councilor Curtis Bostic.
However, the disgraced former South Carolina governor’s greatest test is yet to come against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch on May 7.…
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