In a toxic climate, candidates are shedding the politician label and donning a critical wardrobe item to weather the electoral storm: the brown barn jacket. Candidates are running to demonstrate their political independence by following this year’s hottest campaign trend in an effort to relate…
With House Democratic leaders ratcheting up their arm-twisting and whipping operations in advance of the high-stakes health care vote, pressure on vulnerable Members is also mounting from one of their own party’s most reliable attack dogs.
“Our members worked extremely hard to help get a…
Stu takes a look at the Democrats' challenge in this election year on CBS News' Washington Unplugged with Bill Plante and The Washington Post's Scott Wilson. You can watch the video below or click here.
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Next Tuesday, Stu will be on a panel for CQ-Roll Call’s “Off to the Races” election preview at the Capitol Club at Union Station on March 23 at 8:30am. Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard is moderating the panel that also includes Tucker Carlson, Walter Shapiro and Craig Crawford. You can register here…
No, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) isn’t likely to stand out in a crowd. She probably could walk through Washington, D.C.’s Union Station during lunch and draw barely a notice.
The three-term Democrat from Washington state isn’t as loud as many of her colleagues or as recognizable as those…
While the national media focuses on the fight for control of Congress, there is plenty of action in this year’s gubernatorial contests. Four out of every five Americans will vote for governor this fall in 37 of the 50 states. While Democrats and Republicans want to win as many governorships as…
Democrats rode national political waves during the past two cycles. There will likely be another wave this year, but this time the beneficiaries will be Republicans.
The 2010 election cycle’s dynamics make difficult races even harder for two appealing House Democratic candidates I interviewed…
Over the past 20 years, I have interviewed thousands of candidates, but never one quite like Richard Hanna.
I didn’t interview Hanna last cycle, even though he ran a surprisingly strong race against then-freshman Rep. Michael Arcuri (D) in New York’s 24th district, an oddly shaped swath of…
With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over from a failed two-term Republican president, you’d have thought that Democrats were…
Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) is interviewing staff in preparation for a rematch against Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) in Maryland, according to multiple GOP sources. Given Ehrlich’s demonstrated statewide electability and fundraising potential, he must be regarded very serious contender.
O’Malley can…
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