The strategy was pretty clear from the start.
Pick a fight in a place where you have a substantial advantage and where almost nobody else is playing, dump a ton of money attacking one candidate and supporting another, and then declare victory when — surprise! surprise! — your candidate wins.
…Over the past few weeks, I have heard some people suggest that President Barack Obama’s strategy in pursuing his legislative agenda is more about creating issues for the 2014 midterm elections than about passing legislation.
Whether that is true, it leads to an obvious question: Is the…
Tuesday’s special election in Illinois’ 2nd District has been dominated by gun control -- an issue magnified by the $2.2 million Michael Bloomberg’s political action committee has dropped into the Chicago contest to attack two candidates.
There is no question the New York City mayor’s…
Last year, President Barack Obama toured competitive presidential states, such as Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, touting an economy that was regaining its footing. Over the next two years, Democrats will be trying to defeat Republican governors in each of those states as they…
ALABAMA -- Robert Bentley (R), elected 2010 (58%).
Any threat to Bentley would likely come in the primary (since Democrats aren’t expected to mount a serious threat next fall), but it doesn’t look as though that will materialize. In 2010, Bentley ran as the outsider, finished second in the GOP…
IOWA -- Terry Branstad (R), elected 2010 (53%); elected 1982 (53%), 1986 (52%), 1990 (61%) and 1994 (57%).
Since he hasn’t officially announced his intentions, there is a possibility that Branstad doesn’t run for re-election. But according to local sources, the Republican has openly talked about…
NEW YORK -- Andrew Cuomo (D), elected 2010 (63%).
Cuomo is running two campaigns: one for re-election and another for president in 2016. The former race is a virtual lock, but the latter will be slightly more of a challenge. Currently Safe for Democrats.
Quinnipiac Univ., Dec. 5-10…
Missouri 8. Mr. Smith could soon be headed Washington from the Show Me State. Republicans nominated state Rep. Jason Smith on February 9 as their nominee for the June 4 special election to succeed former Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R). Smith was chosen by a committee of local GOP officials after six…
Congressional Republicans figured that after the fiscal cliff, they’d have the advantage talking about the sequester and, down the road, the continued funding of the government.
Clearly, they were wrong.
One of the reasons Republicans are faring so badly these days is that the Democratic…
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