Hold the phone, Martha. Congressional Republicans may give Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Barack Obama a big present with a beautiful bow wrapped around it. Apparently unaware that Americans who strongly oppose the Democratic health care overhaul are already poised to vote Republican in November, many GOP officeholders […]
In the wake of the health care vote, Stu participated in a CQ–Roll Call Election Preview panel moderated by Taegan Goddard of Political Wire. You can watch the video here.
For Democrats, the sky is falling, according to two national polls, one conducted by Peter Hart and Bill McInturff for NBC News/Wall Street Journal and the other by OnMessage Inc. for the Republican National Committee. The results of the two surveys are very much in sync and present an increasingly disturbing picture for Democrats. OnMessage’s […]
Here’s a bulletin for you: Anytime a campaign releases a polling memo, it is making an argument, not merely offering survey data for your information. Polling memos aren’t written to make you smarter. This shouldn’t need to be said, of course, but when I see reporters swallowing spin as if it were information — as […]
In a toxic climate, candidates are shedding the politician label and donning a critical wardrobe item to weather the electoral storm: the brown barn jacket. Candidates are running to demonstrate their political independence by following this year’s hottest campaign trend in an effort to relate to the common folk. Over the last few years, the […]
With House Democratic leaders ratcheting up their arm-twisting and whipping operations in advance of the high-stakes health care vote, pressure on vulnerable Members is also mounting from one of their own party’s most reliable attack dogs. “Our members worked extremely hard to help get a Democratic majority elected,” said Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn.org’s director of political […]
Stu takes a look at the Democrats' challenge in this election year on CBS News' Washington Unplugged with Bill Plante and The Washington Post's Scott Wilson. You can watch the video below or click here. Watch CBS News Videos Online
Next Tuesday, Stu will be on a panel for CQ-Roll Call’s “Off to the Races” election preview at the Capitol Club at Union Station on March 23 at 8:30am. Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard is moderating the panel that also includes Tucker Carlson, Walter Shapiro and Craig Crawford. You can register here.
No, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) isn’t likely to stand out in a crowd. She probably could walk through Washington, D.C.’s Union Station during lunch and draw barely a notice. The three-term Democrat from Washington state isn’t as loud as many of her colleagues or as recognizable as those Senators who make the news every night. […]