A new Public Policy Polling survey confirms what I am hearing elsewhere: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is close – but still short – of getting more than 50 percent of the vote in Texas’ May 29 Republican Senate primary, which would allow him to avoid a runoff. The May 22-23 survey of 482 likely GOP […]
“It’s a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans,” President Barack Obama said in a statement after the Supreme Court’s January 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that corporations have […]
Conservatives got their preferred candidates in open seat races in Tuesday’s primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky, but national Democrats weren’t as lucky. And results in both states demonstrate Democrats’ continued struggle to get elected in the South. In the Bluegrass State, tea party favorite Thomas Massie cruised to victory in the GOP primary to succeed […]
If you ask a Democratic lawmaker what she had for lunch yesterday, she’d probably tell you about the Republican “war on women.” But, as with many partisan talking points, context is often ignored in the discussion of one of Democrats’ favorite statistics. “There have been 1,100 bills introduced across this country to reduce sources for […]
In the end, it was neither the establishment candidate nor the anti-establishment candidate who can claim victory in the GOP Senate primary in Nebraska. State Sen. Deb Fischer took 41 percent of the vote on Tuesday to win the Republican nomination and will face former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) in the general election race to […]
I never include the Keystone State in my list of presidential swing states for November. Am I making a mistake? Possibly. There are plenty of reasons to leave the commonwealth of Pennsylvania off any list of the most competitive states that will decide the next president. While the 2000 national election split the country almost […]