Reality television shows don’t have as colorful a cast of characters as the upcoming special election in Illinois’s 2nd District.
Vying for the chance to succeed the mired-in-scandal former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the field includes his predecessor, who resigned in the wake of a statutory rape…
The next Congress isn’t even sworn in yet, and Missouri Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R) is the second Member to head for the exits. But the race to replace her will take place behind closed doors and on the telephone.
Emerson said she would resign her 8th District seat in February to head up the…
History tends to be re-written after an election, I’ve found, so let’s take a quick look at what happened and what we got right – and wrong.
Eighteen months before the election, Democrats were worried. With the economy slow, the job market softening and the party defending 23 of 33 Senate seats…
My last column included awards for a number of 2012 campaign and candidate categories, including the luckiest candidate and the biggest upset. But those only scratched the surface in an election year during which candidate quality mattered a great deal. Part II of my guide of the best and worst…
As another election year draws to a close, it’s time again for me to pick the cycle’s winners and losers, my most and least favorite candidates, and those who distinguished themselves by skill or by old-fashioned dumb luck.
After three successive partisan wave elections, the overarching…
The tendency to begin analyzing the next election cycle even before the votes have been counted in the last one shows no indication of abating, unfortunately.
While I have chosen to defer a detailed, race-by-race look at the 2014 elections (both in this column and in my newsletter) until after…
South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s shocking news on Thursday that he would step down from the Senate to lead The Heritage Foundation sets off an uncertain scramble in the Palmetto State for virtually all of the state’s top three offices in 2014.
With DeMint, a second-term senator who’s…
Anyone who hoped that Democrats and Republicans could find a quick way to avoid the upcoming fiscal cliff should by now know that we are heading for another of those buzzer-beater endings — if Congress and the White House beat the buzzer at all.
While President Barack Obama and Speaker John A.…
The new Congress isn’t even sworn in and we already have a second special election, in Missouri. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s (D) resignation last month set in motion a contest early next year to fill his safe Democratic seat in the Chicago area.
The second special election comes after Rep. Jo Ann…
Election Day may be over everywhere else, but in Cajun Country it’s still as hot as ever.
Thanks to Louisiana’s quirky election laws and once-in-a-decade redistricting, incumbent Republicans Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry have been locked in an overtime contest. But it’s one both congressmen…
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