Freshman Democrat Walter Minnick has been moved from Toss-up/Tilt Republican to Lean Democrat. State Rep. Raul Labrador, the upset winner in the May GOP primary, benefited from the implosion of the Republican frontrunner, Vaughan Ward. Until Labrador demonstrates that he is putting together the…
Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R) was supposed to have two tough fights this cycle – one for renomination and one for reelection. But those scenarios haven’t materialized yet, and Election Day is less than five months away.
Vitter was thought to be vulnerable on the right after his connection…
State Sen. Joyce Elliott won the Democratic runoff, dramatically increasing the chances that Republican Tim Griffin will win the seat in the fall. Incumbent Vic Snyder (D) is retiring.
Elliott is the majority leader of the state Senate, and her liberal views in this Little-Rock-based district…
My heart sank when I saw my friend Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post write about this cycle’s elections and whether they really deserved the “anti-incumbent” moniker that they have received. Damn it, I thought, there goes another half-written column that I have to toss into the trash.
But Chris…
Republicans don’t believe Democrats won Virginia’s 2nd District in 2008. They believe they lost it, and they plan to take it back in November.
GOP Cong. Thelma Drake narrowly survived the Democratic wave in 2006 but was swept out two years later. Now freshman Cong. Glenn Nye (D) is a top GOP…
Rep. Charlie Melancon hasn’t made much headway in his contest against Sen. David Vitter (R) over the past seven months, but now the Democrat has a new enemy in the Louisiana Senate race: BP.
With oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak threatening the shores and marshes of his 3rd Congressional…
The post-Nevada primary chorus was loud and clear last week after former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle won the GOP Senate primary and the right to face Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) in November.
Everyone seems to think that Reid is measurably better off now than he was before the…
Democrats and Republicans are each defending 18 seats going into the fall elections, but the national landscape has tilted the battlefield dramatically to the Republicans’ advantage. If the focus in November is on unemployment and the failure of the Obama Administration to handle big issues…
GREENVILLE, Miss. — Politically interested folks in the Mississippi Delta spent the last few days of May wondering about whether Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln will survive today’s Democratic runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter and whether Democratic Rep. Travis Childers of Mississippi’s 1st…
Mike Sodrel has been in my life forever. Or maybe it just seems that way.
Every two years for almost a decade, the Republican businessman has been on the ballot in Indiana’s 9th district, either trying to oust Rep. Baron Hill (D) from Congress or, once, seeking re-election to the House.
But…
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