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…
Stu was on Hardball last night talking about RNC Chairman Michael Steele and the state of the Republican Party with NBC’s Chuck Todd. Here’s the clip.
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Republicans and Democrats are already organizing and strategizing for their decennial battle over Congressional redistricting, with a decade’s worth of elections hanging in the balance.
While the fight over conducting the census is expected to take center stage over the next year and a half,…
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For some reason, campaign managers and press secretaries never tire of distributing press releases and campaign polls that they apparently assume will be taken at face value and regurgitated by political observers.
We’re six months into the 2010 election cycle, and I have already received a…
The May 15, 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…
Republicans have begun their “rebranding” campaign by holding a town hall in Northern Virginia. Those efforts surely are necessary, since the party’s standing in polls continues to erode. But any success from the new approach is likely to proceed at a snail’s pace.
It’s difficult to change…
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