Mr. Irrelevant is the term given to the last player selected in the NFL draft, a reflection of the long odds he faces in making an NFL roster. Increasingly, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) has become the Mr. Irrelevant in the GOP race for the presidential nomination. Gingrich won’t get out of the race, but […]
Respect your elders? Freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s gamble against long-time Rep. Don Manzullo paid off, as he pulled out a surprising victory in Republicans’ first intraparty primary of 2012. Democrats decimated Kinzinger’s district by dividing it into eight redrawn congressional districts and leaving the largest portion in Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s (D) 2nd District. Kinzinger, […]
No, the fight for the Republican presidential nomination is not yet over. But if and when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney becomes his party’s standard-bearer, he’ll need to look for the right running mate to help him unify the party and breathe some excitement into the Republican ticket. In other words, he’ll need Florida Sen. […]
Writing an analysis calculating the final result of redistricting is a little like putting a sign on your back that reads “kick me.” No matter how methodical and dispassionate you try to be, you are forced to make plenty of subjective judgments, guaranteeing that you will be second-guessed by just about everyone. But with redistricting […]
Driving into work on Wednesday morning, listening to parts of “Morning Joe” and “The Daily Rundown” on MSNBC on my radio, I was struck by how much I disagreed with all of the post-primary analysis. The topic du jour, of course, was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s primary losses on Tuesday. Maybe it was because […]
The supposed anti-incumbent wave that started last week in Ohio stopped on Tuesday in the heart of Dixie. While five incumbents faced varying degrees of primary challenges in Alabama and Mississippi, each turned away their intraparty challenge with relative ease and avoided runoffs. All occupy safe seats ahead of this fall’s elections. In Alabama’s 6th […]
It’s not at all surprising, given the media’s concentration on the fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party between tea party conservatives and the GOP’s more pragmatic conservative wing, that most journalists have completely ignored the ideological fights within the Democratic Party this year. But those fights exist, and they could well […]