Happy new year, ladies and gentlemen. It’s finally 2012, and among other things we have an election to look forward to. Several of them, in fact, as the Republican Party decides on who to nominate as their candidate to face off against President Obama this fall. In fact, that process began yesterday, as I’m...
Oh, South Carolina, just when we thought you’d given us all the political scandals you could muster, you just keep them coming. One of the more interesting developments out of the primaries last Tuesday was the shocking win of Alvin Greene over heavily favored former state lawmaker Vic Rawl. Okay, so upsets happen all...
Well, this week another big set of primary elections was settled. Other than a few remaining primaries and run-off elections, the field for the 2010 midterm elections is now set. Sorry this post took so long to come out; there are so many different narratives that emerged on Tuesday, both new and ones we’ve...
Yesterday, in case you didn’t notice, was being called Super Tuesday by political pundits, most of the mainstream media, and just about all the campaigns involved in the various primaries being held around the country. Technically, it wasn’t the “Super Tuesday”, as that...
Well here we are folks, the moment we have all been waiting for (or dreading) has happened. The House of Representatives passed the Senate health care bill by a vote of 219-212 tonight following a full day of debate, the last six hours...
If you thought modern elections were brutal due to the volume of attack ads, hang on to your hats as things are about to get a whole lot worse. Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that many of the campaign...
Today, voters in Massachusetts went to the polls in a special election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Shockingly, for the first time in about fifty years that seat has apparently gone to a Republican, State Senator...
In 1994, after a nasty fight over healthcare, a Democratic majority in Congress was defeated by the GOP in President Clinton’s first midterm elections. This of course sounds eerily similar to what could possibly happen this year, in President Obama’s first midterm elections. ...
Today, it was revealed that leaders in the Republican Party have circulated a proposal that are essentially the Ten Commandments that any "real Republican" must follow in order to gain support from the national party. In effect, this will cause all Republicans with ambition in that party to reinvent themselves in the image...
Last night, after many of you went to sleep, the elections in New York’s 23rd Congressional District and in Maine were decided. As you have probably heard by now, Bill Owens became the first Democrat in a century to be elected from that district after the Conservative Party’s candidate conceded. In addition, the pending...
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