Health Care Reform Cost Democrats the House
A new study suggests President Obama’s health care reform effort cost Democrats their majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 election. Washington Post: “The study ran 10,000 simulations...
View ArticleHow Republicans Kept the House With Less Votes
Bloomberg has an excellent series on the GOP’s lock on the House of Representatives. “One big reason the Republicans have this edge: their district boundaries are drawn so carefully that the only votes...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“I listened to that tape, and I couldn’t hear the word in question. I couldn’t hear it at all… I don’t know who it was. I’m not saying it couldn’t have been me. I thought OK, it probably was me… By the...
View ArticleReflecting on Rand Paul
Trey Grayson (R) talks to New York magazine about the meteoric rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the man who beat him in their 2010 U.S. Senate race: “He wasn’t very good at retail politics. He didn’t...
View ArticleWalker Urged Government Workers to Promote Him Online
“In the heat of the 2010 governor’s race, Scott Walker urged both county employees and campaign aides to go to news websites and post comments promoting him and his record, newly unsealed documents...
View ArticleHow 2014 Isn’t Like 2010
Charlie Cook: “President Obama’s job-approval rating–generally bouncing around between 43 percent and 45 percent–is about where it was going into the 2010 midterms, when Democrats suffered devastating...
View ArticleLow Approval Rate Hurts Congressional Republicans
Harry Enten notes that while Democrats will likely be hurt in the midterm elections by President Obama’s low approval rating, the “effect of Congress’s approval rating seems very real. Republicans look...
View ArticleWalker Says He Was Unaware of $700K Donation
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said that he played “no role in soliciting cash from a mining company for the Wisconsin Club for Growth during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections, adding that no one...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“If you go back to how brutal my campaigns were, it was difficult to turn off the campaign switch and to remember to turn to governing.” — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), in an interview with The...
View ArticleRoberts Declared Virginia Home His Residence
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) “put a signature to documents associated with the mortgage on a Virginia residence that identify the Fairfax County home as ‘principal residence’ of the three-term incumbent...
View ArticleLawmaker Took Illegal Foreign Campaign Cash
A Federal Election Commission audit has found that former Rep. Quico Canseco (R-TX) “accepted $100,000 for his 2010 House bid from a family-owned business in Mexico, violating bans on foreign...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Cost Democrats the House
A new study suggests President Obama’s health care reform effort cost Democrats their majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 election. Washington Post: “The study ran 10,000 simulations...
View ArticleHow Republicans Kept the House With Less Votes
Bloomberg has an excellent series on the GOP’s lock on the House of Representatives. “One big reason the Republicans have this edge: their district boundaries are drawn so carefully that the only votes...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“I listened to that tape, and I couldn’t hear the word in question. I couldn’t hear it at all… I don’t know who it was. I’m not saying it couldn’t have been me. I thought OK, it probably was me… By the...
View ArticleReflecting on Rand Paul
Trey Grayson (R) talks to New York magazine about the meteoric rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the man who beat him in their 2010 U.S. Senate race: “He wasn’t very good at retail politics. He didn’t...
View ArticleWalker Urged Government Workers to Promote Him Online
“In the heat of the 2010 governor’s race, Scott Walker urged both county employees and campaign aides to go to news websites and post comments promoting him and his record, newly unsealed documents...
View ArticleHow 2014 Isn’t Like 2010
Charlie Cook: “President Obama’s job-approval rating–generally bouncing around between 43 percent and 45 percent–is about where it was going into the 2010 midterms, when Democrats suffered devastating...
View ArticleLow Approval Rate Hurts Congressional Republicans
Harry Enten notes that while Democrats will likely be hurt in the midterm elections by President Obama’s low approval rating, the “effect of Congress’s approval rating seems very real. Republicans look...
View ArticleWalker Says He Was Unaware of $700K Donation
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said that he played “no role in soliciting cash from a mining company for the Wisconsin Club for Growth during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections, adding that no one...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“If you go back to how brutal my campaigns were, it was difficult to turn off the campaign switch and to remember to turn to governing.” — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), in an interview with The...
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