Congress, we hear from voters of all stripes on television and in print, is a disaster, unable even to address important questions let alone find good answers. Even with the deal to raise the debt limit and avoid a default, voters surely will punish all incumbents next November, won’t…
After months of posturing, promising and threatening, the endgame on raising the debt ceiling and shrinking the deficit is approaching.
But after talking during the past few days with a variety of participants and observers, I can find no consensus on exactly what the final result will be.
…It wasn’t that long ago that any talks leading to a possible major bipartisan deal would include names like former Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), former Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), Sens. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and, yes, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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With key redistricting decisions still pending in a number of large states — including Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Minnesota and Washington — there are plenty of questions yet to be answered about the playing field for next year’s Congressional elections.
Still, we are starting to get…
There isn’t an official recipe for getting on a Democratic target list, but Republican Charlie Bass has found a few key ingredients.
Bass regained his 2nd District of New Hampshire last year after losing reelection in the Democratic wave of 2006. But despite the GOP wind at his…
There is an old joke, attributed to both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. It goes something like this:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 million pounds?
Woman: My goodness, Mr. Churchill ... Well, I suppose ... we would have to discuss terms, of…
While handicappers try to tally Democratic and Republican redistricting wins and losses in midcycle, the reality is that it could be a decade before either party can declare victory. When it comes to redistricting, how and when to define success isn’t always easy.
For now, both parties are…
The Land of Lincoln will host some of the biggest House races this year, which isn’t great news for Republicans since Barack Obama will be on the ballot once again.
Democrats weren’t in charge of drawing new congressional maps in too many states, but they were in Illinois,…
National Republican strategists, still smarting from creative Democratic map-making in Illinois, finally have a reason to smile.
North Carolina Republicans have a new Congressional map that is likely to cost Democrats at least three seats and quite possibly four in 2012.
Republican insiders are particularly proud that…
With his trip to Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama returns to a media market that he shunned in the 2008 presidential contest.
Even though Iowa is traditionally a swing state, the Obama campaign refused to air television ads in the general election in the Quad Cities…
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