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New Jersey Senate: It Depends on Your Definition of Change
By Nathan L. Gonzales
In the New Jersey Senate race, both candidates are claiming to be the…
Newt Gingrich is running for president. Well, sort of running.
He’ll run if it looks like he has a chance to win. But he won’t really start running — if he runs at all — until later next year. But in the meantime, he is doing what needs to get done in case he does decide to run. Got that?
…The recent news in Texas 22 doesn’t change the outlook for the seat in November…yet.
With former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) on the ballot, the race would immediately move to at least a toss-up race, if not closer to Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) in the lean takeover category. Ney is in all…
School’s out for summer and families are headed for vacation, and the average American is more likely to contemplate the acceptable number of daily sunscreen applications rather than getting into the weeds of the immigration policy and stances of two congressional candidates. But even though…
The new July 7, 2006 print edition of the Rothenberg Political Report is on its way to subscribers. (Click here for subscription information.)
Handicapping the State Legislatures: A 50-State Status Report
By Louis Jacobson
Both Democrats and Republicans agree: Despite the possibility of a wave at…
The last major national political wave, in 1994, didn’t sweep over all areas of the country with equal force. In some states, Congressional Democrats suffered minimal losses, while in others Democratic House seats fell in bunches.
For Democrats to take the House this year, they may need one or…
Congressman Chris Cannon, Republican of Utah’s 3rd District, was staggered, but he didn’t go down for the count. Instead, it was businessman John Jacob, whose anti-immigration campaign was backed by Colorado GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo, who was knocked out by Republican primary voters on June…
As in chess, where a competitor decides what to do based on his or her opponent’s moves, Republican and Democratic primary voters and caucus attendees are likely to spend as much time in 2007 and early 2008 watching their opponents as thinking about their own choices.
Since both parties are…
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Maryland Senate: Race Matters
By Nathan L. Gonzales
If national Republicans are looking at reliably Democratic Maryland for one of their best Senate…
I’m just now recovering from the most recent frenzy about a possible Al Gore presidential bid in 2008, and I’m hopeful that we’ll still have another few months before we get our next “Is Al Gore changing his mind and running for president in 2008?” boomlet.
But another round of Gore…
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