Democrats started licking their chops moments after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced that he had selected Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Whether the reaction came from the national party's House and Senate campaign committees, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign or individual Democratic campaigns around the country, the message was the […]
Congressional job approval isn’t even near 20 percent but nearly 99 percent of incumbents seeking re-election won their primaries this year. Despite all the stories about a purported anti-incumbent wave in which voters would throw out sitting members of all shape, size and party, the phenomenon simply hasn’t manifested itself, at least not through the […]
Not long ago, Democrats had it all: the first African-American president sitting in the Oval Office, the first female Speaker of the House and even a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Four years later, the only remaining piece – the presidency – might be taken away from them. “The road ahead will be long. Our […]
Did last week's Republican Convention spell the beginning of the end for national political conventions, at least in their current form? I'm not certain, but it should. Like the GOP's Ames straw poll, which gets a huge build-up in the media but tells us almost nothing about who will be the party's eventual nominee, conventions […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Democrats here in the Queen City have a common enemy– their new congressional redistricting map that’s imperiled at least four Democratic-held districts this fall. Democrats’ ire against the new lines was on full display at a delegation breakfast on Tuesday morning as the delegation kicked off the official start to […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democratic strategists are cautiously optimistic that they will maintain their Senate majority, but, absent an unforeseen political wave, the party will do battle in a series of local contests where an asset in one state might be a hurdle in another. “Voters of Wisconsin don’t have any idea what Thompson has been […]
In the wake of GOP nominee Todd Akin’s media meltdown, it’s not just Missouri that appears to be trending away from Republicans lately. After moving the Show-Me State to Pure Toss-Up last week, we are moving it again, to Lean Democrat. Akin, who held a double-digit lead before he made his infamous comments about rape […]