The suburban districts in eastern Pennsylvania may get the most attention in November, but a pair of primaries in western Pennsylvania is worth watching this April.
Needing to eliminate one district because of the Keystone State’s loss of a congressional district after reapportionment, Republican map-makers drew two Democratic…
It has looked for a while as if long-time Rep. Dan Burton might not be coming back to Congress next year. But instead of finally losing in a GOP primary, the long-time Republican House member has decided to retire.
Burton’s decision sets up a two-month sprint in a…
There is plenty of evidence that the political discourse in this country has degenerated into the gutter. But anger, hatred, name-calling and political musical chairs all at the same time? Welcome to the soap opera that is Southeast Florida.
Last week, freshman Republican Rep. Allen West, a favorite…
It’s a rough time to be a North Carolina Democrat.
In the span of just a week, the party’s seen Gov. Bev Perdue choose retirement over a competitive reelection she was likely to lose, Rep. Brad Miller headed for the exits rather than face Rep. David Price in…
More than 200,000 people voted in this week’s special election in Oregon’s 1st district, and none of them had to show photo identification before they cast their ballot.
As the voter ID battle rages on in states across the country, the Beaver State hardly registers within the movement,…
As Florida Republicans approach a compromise on redistricting, a game of musical chairs between GOP Reps. Allen West and Tom Rooney could potentially save one of the most endangered members of Congress.
With Rooney announcing he’ll run in the solidly Republican 17th District, which includes about 40 percent…
It’s as predictable as night following day.
Events drive public sentiment, which then shows up in polling. Then, people who either want to make a splash or more often simply want to drive home partisan talking points use the numbers to proclaim a fundamental shift in public opinion…
As with any special election, it’s important to exercise restraint when extrapolating wider lessons. At least the presidential race is soaking up enough to attention to limit the opportunities to over-analyze the results in Oregon’s 1st District.
It looks like former state senator Suzanne Bonamici (D) defeated businessman…
Dan Burton was unlikely to return to Congress next year; it was just a question of whether he would lose in the primary or retire. Today, the 15-term congressman from Indiana announced his retirement and avoided the very real potential that he would end his political career with a…
The decennial knife-fight known as redistricting is poised to claim more victims in 2012 intraparty squabbles than ten years ago, and it’s Democrats who will have more member-member primary fights on their hands than their GOP counterparts.
Republicans, overall, have done a better job at avoiding…
