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Candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd District
Interview Date: March 22, 2016
Date of Birth: Feb. 14, 1972; West Helena, Ark.
Education: Memphis State Univ. (B.A. 1994)
Political Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Craig is the presumptive DFL nominee in the competitive seat left open…
Candidate for West Virginia’s 2nd District
Interview Date: March 3, 2016
Date of Birth: Jan. 23, 1960 (Charleston, W.V.)
Education: Univ. of Charleston (B.A. 1982); Marshall Univ. (Master’s 1984); Univ. of District of Columbia (J.D. 1993)
Political Office: State Delegate (former)
Current…
If you like John Kasich, it's time to celebrate! The Ohio governor finally won a primary – his home state’s. Of course, he flopped in last week's other contests, ending the evening with almost two dozen fewer delegates than Sen. Marco Rubio, who exited the GOP race.
Kasich’s campaign has bordered…
Millennials have a reputation for being lazy, but a bipartisan crop of young congressional candidates is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they’ll need, considering they are taking on the political establishment.
Considering the average age of a House member is 57, both parties could…
Anti-establishment conservatives couldn’t get one of their own elected Speaker of the House after John A. Boehner decided to call it quits, but they are on the cusp of taking over his western Ohio congressional district.
That’s roughly the same lede from our deep-dive of the race, “Ohio 8: The…
Republican front-runner Donald Trump is asked repeatedly about polls showing him trailing Hillary Clinton badly in the general election. He always says the same thing: other polls show him winning, and Clinton will be very easy to defeat.
Is Trump merely blowing smoke, or could he re-draw the…
With Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seemingly positioned to fight it out for the Republican presidential nomination, Democrats are now poised to take over the Senate in November.
The two Republicans still in the race who could help their party’s Senate prospects, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and…
It’s going to be hard for most House races to get any attention this year, with a competitive presidential race and the fight for control of the Senate. But a handful of districts have the luxury of not only hosting a competitive House race, but also being swing areas of presidential battleground…
Twelve months ago, no one imagined billionaire Donald J. Trump would be in firm control of the Republican Party’s presidential nominating process. And the past year is peppered with handicapping mistakes as everyone tried to fit Trump into historical election molds.
On the surface, Trump looks…