With only 50 competitive seats on the House playing field, it’s important to look at primaries on both sides of the aisle that will choose the next member of Congress. And with House Republicans divided into two camps, any GOP primary raises important questions.
GOP Rep. Jo Bonner resigned his…
Rodney Alexander doesn’t do anything with a lot of advance notice.
In 2004, the Democratic congressman from Louisiana switched parties just before the filing deadline to ensure that angry Democrats wouldn’t have enough time to field a candidate against him.
This year, the ink was hardly dry…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan probably would have coasted to the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and to victory in the general election next year if family matters hadn’t complicated her decision.
Madigan’s political aspirations have been consistently blocked by her father, the…
The Senate playing field is starting to solidify, and the fight for the majority looks like it will be decided in about a dozen states. But even though the fields of candidates are still taking shape in some of those contests, both Republicans and Democrats are banking on some macro-factors that…
I shouldn’t be disappointed with MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown,” one of the few reasonable political shows not airing on Sunday morning. But the show did a segment with Indiana University sociologist Fabio Rojas, who recently wrote a Washington Post opinion piece on how Twitter can predict an election.
…The folks over at the Washington Post must have needed copy desperately for Monday’s opinion page if they were willing to publish a piece titled, “How Twitter can help predict an election.”
In the column, Indiana University Sociologist Fabio Rojas asserts: “Twitter discussions are an unusually…
“The GOP needs to gain three or four seats to win control (depending on which party controls the White House), and already five Democratic-held Senate seats are no better than toss-ups. The Democratic outlook would improve markedly if the party could swipe a couple of Republican seats next year,…
Amelia Bedelia could hardly hold down a housekeeping job, but that didn’t stop her from running for mayor.
Anybody with small kids or grandchildren is familiar with Amelia Bedelia — the well-intentioned nanny whose literal take on life gets her into plenty of trouble. But after her pun-filled…
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