Democratic insiders are hoping to avoid a primary to pick the party’s nominee for the special election to fill Democrat John Kerry’s eventual open Senate seat later this year. So, they have jumped on the Rep. Edward J. Markey bandwagon, hoping to anoint him as their nominee without much of a fight. But would a […]
We’ve just seen Round One in what amounts to a political heavyweight championship fight between Democrats and Republicans. Get ready for the next 11 rounds. Though they were unhappy with a package that included more spending and higher taxes on the wealthy, Republican realists understood that defending tax cuts for millionaires is never an ideal […]
As the end of the year approaches, it’s difficult not to see the two parties heading in very different directions. Democrats have emerged from the 2012 elections stronger, while Republicans look poorly positioned and divided. Politics, of course, is famous for its ups and downs, its unexpected twists and unforced errors. Because of that, it’s […]
Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate successor has already been announced, but the influential political action committee he founded has no plans to replace him. The Senate Conservatives Fund helped vault the junior senator from South Carolina to the national stage when he founded it in 2008. But while DeMint’s resignation in January re-creates a vacuum that […]
Wow, what a political cycle. It was filled with twists, turns and surprises. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses — until he didn’t (almost two weeks after the actual balloting, when former Sen. Rick Santorum was certified as the winner). After finishing a distant fourth in Iowa and an even more distant […]
With days left in 2012, the Senate class of 2014 is already evolving and growing. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R) resignation and Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye’s (D) death adds two special elections to the next class and another seat for each party to defend. Once again, Democrats are starting the cycle in a defensive […]