Every political reporter, campaign professional and political junkie should read Charlie Cook’s most recent National Journal column on the decline of swing congressional districts and the rise of partisanship. (I am certain some credit for the analysis also goes to David Wasserman over at the…
A few observations on the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll:
Last week, I wrote a short item about reports that former Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott P. Brown was not ruling out a run for the Senate in 2014 — in New Hampshire.
I argued that the idea was a bad one and that running in the Granite State after passing on the 2013 Senate special election in…
Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz recently confirmed what everyone had already suspected: She is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in Pennsylvania.
The big question is whether someone from southeastern Pennsylvania can get nominated, let alone win the governorship.…
Who is the most vulnerable senator seeking re-election next year?
Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss might have won the distinction because of his vulnerability to a conservative primary challenger, but he has already announced he won’t seek another term.
The same goes for West Virginia…
On one level, Maine’s lone Republican in Congress, Sen. Susan Collins, looks like a defeat waiting to happen.
She is a Republican from a state that went comfortably for Democrat Barack Obama twice. And she is from New England, a part of the country where the GOP is all but extinct in federal…
Not long ago, Democrats and organized labor were railing against Wal-mart as the arch nemesis of organized labor. Now, President Barack Obama has tapped a high-level Wal-Mart official to be a member of his Cabinet and put her at the forefront of one of the most important issues of the day. What…
Multiple media outlets are reporting that former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown, a Republican, hasn’t ruled out a bid for the Senate next year in New Hampshire.
I haven’t ruled out lots of things in my life that I don’t intend to do and am pretty sure I won’t do, and if that’s all that Brown…
The jobs numbers just reported for March — an increase of only 88,000 jobs — are horrendous, especially coming after February’s strong job surge (236,000 new jobs revised up to 268,000).
Forget the unemployment rate sliding from 7.7 percent to 7.6 percent. As The Associated Press noted, that…
Rarely does one House race have a national impact, but that is the case in Utah’s 4th District.
In 2012, Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love came within 768 votes of knocking off Rep. Jim Matheson (D) and becoming the first black Republican woman to serve in Congress.
Her loss came as a surprise…
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