NORTH CAROLINA -- Kay Hagan (D), elected 2008 (53%).
Given the GOP’s recent victories in the state, Hagan is almost guaranteed a serious challenge. Mitt Romney carried the state last year, and Republican Pat McCrory won the governorship in November. In addition, the GOP now controls both houses…
“He has earned the trust of both Democrats and Republicans” and has a “reputation for integrity and fairness,” says the biography of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on his official Senate website.
The self-congratulatory 1,566-word tribute, which includes praise from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch,…
Rural House Democrats are an increasingly endangered breed. And in President Obama’s second midterm election, they’ll be squarely on notice again, particularly with gun control issues coming into the political forefront -- which could have mixed implications for their 2014 prospects.
In 2012,…
It is far too early to handicap the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 World Series or the 2016 Summer Olympics. And yet, if you are a true political junkie, you may already be apoplectic that we aren’t yet knee-deep in discussions about the next presidential race.
While you have my pity if you are…
While most political attention these days is focused on the nation’s capital and President Barack Obama’s second term, across the river in Virginia, politicians from both parties are preparing for what seems to be the oddest gubernatorial race the state has seen in years.
Each party is poised…
Not too long ago, Democrats would have panicked if they had to defend a Senate seat in a state where their presidential nominee received 36 percent of the vote. But victories in North Dakota and West Virginia last year, and a strong cycle overall, have emboldened Democrats in the face of another…
Scott Brown’s 2010 special election victory to claim the late-Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat was one of the biggest political upsets of all-time. Now, just three years later, Democrats are rallying behind two words: never again.
Democrats succeeded in knocking off the Massachusetts Republican…
Don’t cry for him, South Carolina: the truth is former Gov. Mark Sanford (R) never really left Palmetto State politics.
The battle to succeed newly-appointed Sen. Tim Scott (R) takes on immediate national attention with the likely political return of Sanford, now infamous for an ill-fated…
History suggests that 2014 could be a good year for the GOP. But then again, history also seemed to be on the party’s side in 2012, when a high unemployment rate and a sluggish economy suggested trouble for President Barack Obama’s bid for a second term.
Long-time trends are worth considering,…
Individual & Group Subscriptions Available