From presidential elections to football jerseys, Nebraska is scarlet red. But for the last 35 years, Democrats have controlled one U.S. Senate seat. Sen. Ben Nelson is hoping to keep the streak alive.
Nelson is no stranger to close elections, and in all but one instance he’s come…
Sen. Richard Lugar (R) is an icon in Indiana, but he could lose reelection next year.
And if he loses, it will be fellow Republicans who deny him a seventh term.
Lugar is a highly-respected moderate conservative with a reputation of being willing to work across the…
Note: This column appeared in Roll Call before Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl announced his retirement.
Spring training hasn’t even started for the 2011 baseball season, but it’s already clear that control of the Senate is up for grabs this election cycle.
Almost before the cycle even began,…
Two Senate retirements this week pull two seats into more competitive categories.
In Virginia, Sen. Jim Webb’s retirement is a significant problem for Democrats. Webb would have been difficult to paint as a Washington insider, but now that he’s not seeking a second term, his open seat becomes…
With Cong. Denny Rehberg set to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Republicans got their best possible candidate to take on first-term Sen. Jon Tester (D). Rehberg has been elected statewide in Montana’s at-large congressional district for a decade and early public polling shows him running even or…
Democrats lost six Senate seats last year -- and it could have been worse if tea party-backed candidates had not won contested Republican primaries in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada. The Senate race landscape starts off even more challenging for the DSCC this cycle, since Democrats now hold 23 of…
The political fallout from the horrific shootings in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday was predictable. Members of Congress called for a return to civility, gun control advocates used the tragedy to call for more gun control and some liberals blamed the violence on conservatives.
So what else is new?
…Senate race ratings make good headlines and cable news fodder, but two years out from an election, they can be poor predictors of what’s to come.
Looking back over the past decade, plenty of seats deemed safe in the off-year could be found later in the “lost” column…
For Democrats, 2010 is ending on a low note.
The party’s circular firing squad over the tax cut deal didn’t help the party’s image, the economy doesn’t yet show signs of a strong enough rebound to bring down unemployment and potential foreign policy problems continue to loom just…
Many House Democrats apparently figure that November’s elections had nothing to do with them, their agenda or their leadership.
Sure, their party lost 63 House seats, with voters more than wiping out the Democratic gains from 2006 and 2008 and rejecting their argument that the election was a…
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