Delaware Democrat Beats Back Progressive Challenger
Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.
Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.
A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.
Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.
The shutdown debacle seems destined to lead to a battle between the Tea Party and the more business oriented elements of the GOP
The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.
Politico’s Mike Allen reports that several Republicans are expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention next month.
Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.
After having so much influence in 2010, the Tea Party is finding itself adrift in the search for a Republican nominee in 2012.
Facing his own Tea Party challenge, Richard Lugar reminds Republicans of an uncomfortable truth.
Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.
Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?
Is the only possible motivation conservatives could possibly have for calling out the lunatic fringe a desire for the acceptance of liberals?
Three months after the allegations were first made. the FEC has opened a criminal investigation of Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell
Maine’s Olympia Snowe appears to be the next target of the Tea Party movement, but she is also uniquely situated to retain her seat if she chooses to.
Virginia Senator Jim Webb is the last of a dying breed of Democrats, but his party may need him if it wants to remain competitive anywhere outside of a Blue State.
When conservatives start attacking one of their own for pointing out the obvious, you really have to wonder if they want to win.
An NBC analysis shows Tea Party candidates winning only 5 of 10 Senate races and 40 of 130 House races, a success rate of only 32 percent.
Last night’s election results stand as a mixed verdict on the Tea party and its impact on the Republican Party.
The enthusiasm for Tea Party candidates likely helped the House Republican wave. But it also likely cost the GOP four Senate seats that it would otherwise have won — and thus the majority.
She didn’t gain national prominence until late August, and she’s going to most likely lost by a wide margin tonight, but Christine O’Donnell received more coverage from the media than any other candidate running in 2010.
The British press takes a look at America’s Midterm Elections.
We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections. Now, it’s time for final predictions.
A call for ideological purity in the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times demonstrates that Democrats can be just as foolish as Republicans.
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party aren’t as clueless as their detractors think.
Politicians are, by definition, a bit abnormal. However, this year we seem to have more than our fair share of the truly odd.
More on O’Donnell’s representation of her education in her own words.
Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.
At least one Christine O’Donnell supporter thinks that Republicans who aren’t jumping on are bandwagon are doing so because of her gender.
I was never particularly hopeful that the GOP would retake the Senate, but even if it turns out that O’Donnell’s nomination prevents it from happening, I can’t bring myself to care all that much.
Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.
Last night’s celebration in Wilmington is sure to be tempered just a bit by news that Christine O’Donnell is sixteen points behind her Democratic opponent.
The Delaware GOP now has, according to Nate Silver, a 17% chance of winning the Senate seat.
Some thoughts on the Delware Senate race and the state of the GOP.
A Public Policy Survey poll taken over the weekend — apparently the only survey taken thus far — has eccentric Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell leading Mike Castle 47-43 in the race for the Republican nomination for Delaware Senate contest that will be decided Tuesday.