The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tried to turn up the heat on 28 Republican members by unleashing a targeted Twitter attack in their districts. But is Twitter an effective tool or just another way to generate free media attention? Last week, the DCCC encouraged college students in 28 competitive House districts to tweet a simple […]
Next year, voters will go to the polls to elect 435 House members and 35 United States senators, but it seems quite possible that there will be more net change in the Senate than in the House. If this occurs, it would be worth noting, since it has happened only twice during midterm elections going […]
There isn’t an issue that more clearly defines the partisan disconnect in this country than abortion and abortion rights. Hosts and guests on MSNBC are perpetually perplexed by Republicans, who pursue limits to legal abortion – mostly recently the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – even in the face of potentially negative political repercussions. The […]
Rep. Edward J. Markey is getting widespread support from Massachusetts to Hawaii in his special-election bid for Senate in the Bay State. Wait, what? Hawaii? Last weekend, freshman Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, took to the campaign trail along with a large collection of state, local and federal officeholders from Massachusetts, to help push the Democratic […]
Editor's Note: This column first appeared in Roll Call before Thursday's vote. Once upon a time, on a very different planet and in a very different country, the farm bill was not among the more controversial things that Congress did. Yes, previous farm bills have produced knock-down, drag-out fights between various parts of the country, […]
Bickering over polls is a time-honored tradition in campaigns. But the latest exchange of surveys in Utah’s 4th District is not just an example of partisan pollsters getting very different results. It is also a reminder of the importance of polling methodology. Earlier this month, the National Republican Congressional Committee released an interactive voice response […]
Minutes after Gabriel Gomez was declared the winner of his party’s special primary on the evening of April 30, I tweeted that Gomez’s victory assured that the Massachusetts Senate special election would be “interesting.” And it has been. But as the June 25 balloting approaches, it is clear the GOP nominee remains an underdog, as […]
Open seats are supposed to be opportunities. Without longtime incumbents on the ballot, these districts should be easier to takeover. But six months into the 2014 cycle, that just isn’t the case on the House side. So far, there are 10 districts slated to be open seats because the member is running for higher office […]
The midterm elections are still more than a year away, but Latino candidates in Florida are already jockeying for position in a couple of key congressional races. In 2012, Democrat Joe Garcia defeated incumbent David Rivera in the 26th District, in large part because the Republican congressman was dogged by ethical questions about his time […]