No, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) isn’t likely to stand out in a crowd. She probably could walk through Washington, D.C.’s Union Station during lunch and draw barely a notice.
The three-term Democrat from Washington state isn’t as loud as many of her colleagues or as recognizable as those…
While the national media focuses on the fight for control of Congress, there is plenty of action in this year’s gubernatorial contests. Four out of every five Americans will vote for governor this fall in 37 of the 50 states. While Democrats and Republicans want to win as many governorships as…
Democrats rode national political waves during the past two cycles. There will likely be another wave this year, but this time the beneficiaries will be Republicans.
The 2010 election cycle’s dynamics make difficult races even harder for two appealing House Democratic candidates I interviewed…
Over the past 20 years, I have interviewed thousands of candidates, but never one quite like Richard Hanna.
I didn’t interview Hanna last cycle, even though he ran a surprisingly strong race against then-freshman Rep. Michael Arcuri (D) in New York’s 24th district, an oddly shaped swath of…
With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over from a failed two-term Republican president, you’d have thought that Democrats were…
Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) is interviewing staff in preparation for a rematch against Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) in Maryland, according to multiple GOP sources. Given Ehrlich’s demonstrated statewide electability and fundraising potential, he must be regarded very serious contender.
O’Malley can…
Democratic Cong. Bill Delahunt’s retirement creates another open seat opportunity for Republicans. But even though Scott Brown (R) won Massachusetts’ 10th District by 20 points in his historic statewide win earlier this year, this seat is a long ways away, geographically and politically, from…
Cong. Eric Massa’s (D) retirement creates another open seat opportunity for Republicans. Massa was headed for a competitive race this year, but without him, New York’s 29th District is considerably more vulnerable for the Democrats.
Sen. John McCain won the district 51%-48% in 2008 and George…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) ran a great campaign in order to avoid a primary runoff against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But running for a third full-term is rarely easy for any governor and Perry’s 2006 reelection with 39% of the vote (in a multi-candidate race) was under-whelming. Former…
Periodically (it seems more often these days, actually), I come across some really silly political stuff that screams out for attention. Here are four examples. Caveat emptor!
Exhibit No. 1: A Feb. 17 survey of 500 likely Wisconsin voters by Rasmussen Reports.
Rasmussen is an automated poll…
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