The 2014 primary season has begun with high-profile Democratic Senate primaries in Massachusetts and New Jersey. But they’re the tip of the iceberg in what promises to be a cycle of competitive, and possibly nasty, primaries in both parties.
Republicans face plenty of intraparty fights,…
Republican state Sen. Mimi Walters has a 94 percent lifetime rating with California’s anti-tax group, but that might not be enough for her to avoid a anti-tax primary challenger as she runs for Congress.
Walters is the early front-runner to replace retiring Rep. John Campbell (click here for…
It has been a bad couple of weeks for my people.
No, I don’t mean journalists. I mean the Jews.
First, it was Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger who was suspended for 65 games for violating Major League Baseball’s drug program. As the New Republic’s Marc Tracy put it, “Braun used…
The recent entry of Michelle Nunn into the Georgia Senate race is good news for national and state Democrats who hope to swipe a normally Republican Senate seat in the Deep South.
Nunn, the daughter of former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn, is CEO of Points of Light, a nonprofit organization that…
Massachusetts Republican Richard Tisei married his longtime partner earlier this month in the aftermath of losing one of the closest congressional races in the country — and probably just a few months before he begins another House campaign.
In 2012, Tisei came oh-so-close to defeating…
Open congressional seats in Massachusetts tend to come around every few decades, so it’s no surprise that Democrats are looking at a crowded and competitive race to replace new-Sen. Ed Markey (D).
Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976 and became the the longest serving House member to…
Is one recent vote enough to turn friends into foes in a Republican primary? We’ll find out next year in California’s 45th District.
Democrats dominate the Golden State but Orange County is a Republican bastion. So when, GOP Rep. John Campbell announced his decision not to seek re-election,…
The October 16 special election in New Jersey to fill the remainder of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg’s term doesn’t look like much of a contest.
With the GOP race drawing nothing more than second- or third-tier hopefuls, the Democratic nomination, which will be decided in an August 16…
Susan Collins is the only Republican senator seeking re-election in a state that President Barack Obama carried in 2012. But Maine is virtually nowhere on Democratic target lists for 2014.
The battle for the Senate next year will be played out primarily in states where Democrats are playing…
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