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 takeaway from…
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)…
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…
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…
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 anticipated…
On paper, Rep. John Barrow should have been a goner.
Over the years, the Georgia Democrat has enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude in proving Republicans wrong and winning even when the odds were stacked against him. This year was no exception.
Fortunately for…
Democrats had a good Election Night. President Obama won a second term, and the party unexpectedly gained seats in the Senate. But the effort to claim victory in the House is a bridge too far, and it isn’t merely the touting about how Democrats met or exceeded low expectations…
Sometimes it’s not about the larger lessons for the national party or the demographics. Sometimes the better candidate just wins.
I’ll admit that I get a little defensive about the coverage of House races.
Only a handful of us pay a lot of attention to them (you…
While most members of the national media have focused on President Barack Obama’s narrow popular vote/substantial electoral vote victory, the far more stunning results occurred in the Senate.
Though defending 23 seats to the GOP’s 10, Democrats added two more seats last week (counting Maine independent Angus King).…
After an election, the winners often gloat and the losers look for excuses and point their fingers.
Almost inevitably, both sides overreact. Some losers see the sky falling, while too many winners (and their press people) draw exaggerated conclusions about their brilliance and about the voters’ messages.
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