Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District won’t exist much longer but that’s not stopping the competition for the seat in a special election next month.
A new 2nd C.D. will continue to exist, but because Nevada gained a seat during reapportionment, the district will likely be dramatically redrawn. The seat…
Anyone with kids has spent a lot of time reading books with fewer than 10 words on a page. But as the political environment heats up, what looks like a harmless bedtime story can turn into a hidden political message or even astute political analysis.
At least, if…
Well, that was fast. Just days after Congress raised the debt ceiling and finalized a deficit reduction deal, reality slapped the nation in the face in the form of a 500-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
Thank you. We needed that.
The economic news isn’t…
Congress, we hear from voters of all stripes on television and in print, is a disaster, unable even to address important questions let alone find good answers. Even with the deal to raise the debt limit and avoid a default, voters surely will punish all incumbents next November, won’t…
After months of posturing, promising and threatening, the endgame on raising the debt ceiling and shrinking the deficit is approaching.
But after talking during the past few days with a variety of participants and observers, I can find no consensus on exactly what the final result will be.
…It wasn’t that long ago that any talks leading to a possible major bipartisan deal would include names like former Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), former Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), Sens. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and, yes, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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With key redistricting decisions still pending in a number of large states — including Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Minnesota and Washington — there are plenty of questions yet to be answered about the playing field for next year’s Congressional elections.
Still, we are starting to get…
There isn’t an official recipe for getting on a Democratic target list, but Republican Charlie Bass has found a few key ingredients.
Bass regained his 2nd District of New Hampshire last year after losing reelection in the Democratic wave of 2006. But despite the GOP wind at his…
There is an old joke, attributed to both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. It goes something like this:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 million pounds?
Woman: My goodness, Mr. Churchill ... Well, I suppose ... we would have to discuss terms, of…
While handicappers try to tally Democratic and Republican redistricting wins and losses in midcycle, the reality is that it could be a decade before either party can declare victory. When it comes to redistricting, how and when to define success isn’t always easy.
For now, both parties are…
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