The combination of retirements and GOP recruiting has already put the Senate in play. The GOP needs to gain three or four seats to win control (depending on which party holds the White House), and already five Democratic-held Senate seats are no better than toss-ups. The Democratic outlook would…
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.
…A veteran Democratic consultant once told me something very wise: 90 percent of what happens in a campaign has little to do with determining who wins and who loses.
The problem is that we don’t know exactly what the important 10 percent is.
I think of this comment often, but particularly…
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…
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…
As a Democratic senator in a red state, Claire McCaskill has always known that she was going to have a tough race. But she might have made things a little more difficult for herself.
After years of crafting an image as an independent, good government politician, McCaskill has been forced to…
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 back last cycle,…
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