Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have already been tabbed as among the front-runners for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Not surprisingly, the narrative you will hear will present them as adversaries. But Rubio and Jindal are currently allies in a rather risky effort to redefine the Republican Party’s image and resurrect […]
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R) is telling friends in Georgia that he will be running for Congress next year. A handful of Republican congressmen are considering running for the seat of Senator Saxby Chambliss (R), who has announced that he will not seek another term, so there could be a number of open House […]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) announced his retirement on Thursday, setting off a potential scramble for his open seat in New Jersey. But the most important action is likely to be on the Democratic side. One prominent Democrat who has made no secret of his ambition is Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who started making moves toward […]
Oh what a difference one word can make. Take away the “West” from “West Virginia,” and you have a once-red state that surely is now purple, a state carried twice by Barack Obama. But add back the “West” and you have the Mountain State, which has been headed down a different path over the past […]
We may well be at a political tipping point that could mark a dramatic change in American politics. After decades of Democratic Party dominance that began with the formation of the New Deal coalition, Ronald Reagan ushered in an era of relative party parity. But a deep fracture in the GOP, combined with crucial demographic […]