While high gas prices, the war in Iraq and political fallout from Hurricane Katrina have taken their toll on President Bush’s job approval ratings, Republican voters remain loyal to their commander in chief. But that could change unless Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue can agree on an agenda than unites and energizes the party going into…
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D) came out swinging recently against President Bush, but it’s unclear whether he’s simply still fighting the last war – the ’04 presidential campaign – or positioning himself for 2008. Minutes after Bush finished his Sept. 15 address to the nation promising action to help the people of the Gulf Coast, Kerry distributed a…
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Four years ago, a national tragedy transformed a controversial mayor, New York’s Rudy Giuliani (R), into a national celebrity. It also transformed a president with sinking poll ratings, George W. Bush, into a symbol of national unity (at least for a year). Hurricane Katrina has had a very different effect on at least one politician. For the past…
The following are past races covered in the hard-copy edition of The Rothenberg Political Report and are available only to subscribers. Back issues are not sold individually. Subscription information is here. December 15, 2006, Vol. 29, No. 28Illinois 6: Money PitPennsylvania 4: To the Beat of Her Own DrumTX 23 & LA 2: Surprise, Surprise!! November 29, 2006,…
The following are past races covered in the hard-copy edition of The Rothenberg Political Report and are available only to subscribers. Back issues are not sold individually. Subscription information is here. December 20, 2005, Vol. 28, No. 262006 Political Landscape December 16, 2005, Vol. 28, No. 25California 50: Special Election Pre-Test December 2, 2005, Vol. 28, No. 242006…
Nathan L. Gonzales is political editor of The Rothenberg Political Report, a non-partisan political newsletter covering U.S. House, Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, and Presidential politics. He has been with the Report since June 2001 and is also a Contributing Writer for Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. Since 2002, Nathan has worked as an off-air consultant for ABC…
Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey entered the Rhode Island Republican Senate race with a bang – a wave of TV advertising that’s highly unusual more than a year before the 2006 primary. Now the question is whether the incumbent, Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R), can change the likely dynamic in the race and, with the help of the National Republican…
Over the next year, as we move toward the 2006 elections, we are likely to hear more and more talk of the so-called six-year itch – the historical “trend” that has meant big losses for the president’s party six years into his presidency. That’s a pity, since the six-year itch is little more than a figment of the…