Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments last month to RNC state chairmen calling for the party to turn the corner “on regret, recrimination, self-pity and self-doubt” and to declare “an end to the era of Republicans looking backward” weren’t ill-advised or inappropriate.…
Stu appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Sunday with host Steve Scully and Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report. Here’s a link to the segment.
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The May 29, 2009 print edition of the Rothenberg Political Report is on its way to subscribers.
The print edition of the Report comes out every two weeks. Subscribers get in-depth analysis of the most competitive races in the country, as well as quarterly House and Senate ratings, and coverage of…
The Guest Observer in Roll Call’s May 18 edition, written by Brian Wild, who worked as chief of staff to then-Rep. Pat Toomey (R), makes some interesting claims about Toomey’s prospects in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race.
Wild begins by asserting that unidentified “Washington … ‘experts’”…
Republicans have found the soft underbelly of the administration of President Barack Obama, and her name is Nancy Pelosi.
The Speaker performed admirably during her first two years as the top Congressional leader, elevating pragmatism over purity and successfully stepping back from the…
When Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced last week that he is running for the Senate in 2010 instead of seeking re-election, the move was hailed as Senate Republicans’ biggest recruiting coup of the cycle.
But the news was hardly treated with applause from the Republican Governors Association…
Last night, Stu was on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer and the Hotline’s Amy Walter discussing the politics of Guantanamo, credit cards, and guns in national parks. You can check out the clip here.
Over the past few weeks, a handful of potentially strong Republican challengers have jumped into House races. Sid Leiken in Oregon, Frank Guinta in New Hampshire, Van Tran in California and Cory Gardner in Colorado, for example, look to be the kind of recruits whom Republicans didn’t get last…
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