For anyone old enough to remember Bucky Dent’s memorable home run in the 1978 Yankees-Red Sox playoff, the current makeup and political strategy of the Democratic Party has to seem very odd.
No, this isn’t your grandfather’s (or even your father’s) Democratic Party, and while that was an…
The race to replace Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) has been going on for two years, but it still has a long way to go.
Hutchison said she’d give up her seat in order to focus on running for governor in 2010. She ran for governor but…
Congress’ job approval stinks. Everyone agrees about that.
It really doesn’t matter whether Congress’ job approval is 12 percent (last week’s CBS News/New York Times poll), 13 percent (August’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey) or 15 percent (recent Gallup and CNN polling).
Running against Congress seems like…
Our normal political discourse in this country has changed much in the past three decades, becoming coarser and angrier. In Congress, the two parties are increasingly at odds, unable to find common ground on many crucial issues and apparently willing to question each other’s fundamental decency.
Yet almost…
After Scott Brown got elected to the Senate in Massachusetts in a special election, everyone assumed he would be “toast” in the next general election. Don’t be so sure.
Brown got elected in one of the most high-profile Senate races of all-time, winning the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s…
Former Cong. Pete Hoekstra (R) reconsidered his earlier decision to stay on the sidelines and will now challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D). He entered the race with the support of Gov. Rick Snyder (R), whom Hoekstra lost to in the 2010 gubernatorial primary, and former Gov. John Engler. The…
To no one’s surprise, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon (R) announced she is running again. She lost to Richard Blumenthal (D) in last year’s Senate election. But despite McMahon’s personal wealth, former Cong. Chris Shays announced he will run, as well. Democrats have a competitive primary of their own…
Hours after President Obama’s September 8 speech to the joint session of Congress, incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill released a statement that included this: “Weeks on the road getting input from Missouri’s manufacturers has led me to believe we can keep creating more jobs with some commonsense ideas—more efficient…
Nathan Daschle and Ray Glendening are two of the last people you would expect to be politically homeless.
With prominent fathers, Democratic politics is literally in their blood and, more recently, the duo worked at the Democratic Governors Association. But Daschle and Glendening no longer feel the same…
It’s 11 weeks until the deadline for the supercommittee to reduce federal budget deficits by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years or else trigger across-the-board spending cuts, including big cuts in defense.
As Americans shift their focus away from terrorism and toward the nation’s economic future, it’s…
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