With days left in 2012, the Senate class of 2014 is already evolving and growing.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R) resignation and Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye’s (D) death adds two special elections to the next class and another seat for each party to defend.
Once again, Democrats are…
After an election cycle that saw tens of thousands of television ads and millions of dollars of candidate spending in the Old Dominion, the worst may be yet to come for Virginia voters.
Off-year gubernatorial contests in the commonwealth have been nasty, brutish, and yes, short, in the past.…
Four years ago, Chris Christie became the first Republican to get elected governor of the Garden State in a decade, but he failed to reach 49 percent against an unpopular incumbent. Next year, the governor could win re-election, but it might it be considered a wind-aided victory from Hurricane…
Establishment Republicans in Washington breathed a sigh of relief with the surprise announcement last week by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint that he would resign at the beginning of the year to take the helm of the Heritage Foundation.
But with GOP Gov. Nikki Haley set to name his successor…
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…
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