In New Hampshire, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday PAC has endorsed Scott Brown’s Republican primary challenger and recently sent out a mailer calling Scott Brown a “Washington lobbyist,” prompting an angry response from the Brown campaign — calling it a “flat-out lie.” “This
A new NBC News/Marist poll has Republican Tom Cotton leading incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Pryor by five in Arkansas, while Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has taken an eight point lead over his Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Meanwhile, “in
In 2008, when then candidate Barack Obama was caught up in a plagiarism scandal for using the words of Deval Patrick, his opponent Hillary Clinton’s chief criticism of him at the time was that he was “just words.” His critics,
Democrat Jesse T. Smith is running for Congress in Alabama. On Monday Smith Tweeted: “The greatest country on earth is being bullied from within. Actions of Republicans in Congress are worse than #ISIL,” ISIL is the Obama administration’s preferred name for
The AP may not have trumpeted the political ramifications of Obama delaying executive action on immigration until after the mid-terms, but they were unable to completely ignore it, leading to these two incomprehensible, if not incoherent paragraphs within the AP
In response to Barack Obama’s purely political decision to delay his desired executive action on amnesty for illegal immigrants until after November’s mid-term elections, NH Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown said, “President Obama’s decision to delay executive action to grant amnesty to
If you follow election coverage as I do, a funny thing seems to have happened as we move from Summer into the Fall and on toward the November mid-terms. Suddenly, media outlet after media outlet is talking about the lack
The Washington Post highlights Atlantic City’s now shuddered Revel casino and NJ Gov Chris Christie’s role in it’s supposed rise. Now that it’s fallen on hard times and more, it’s not wrong to suggest it’s a black mark on Christie’s
While wealth may have always been a target for attack in many political races, it reached a fever pitch in Obama’s populist attacks on Mitt Romney. Does wealth now play an out-sized role in the nation’s political back and forth?
As pointed out in a new Gallup poll revealing Obama’s disastrous approval numbers in Iowa, the state has played a unique roll in his political career. Now it seems they’ve turned on him, even more so than the rest of
Claiming there is no clearer “renunciation of (U.S.) citizenship than choosing to join ISIS,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas plans to file the Expatriate Terrorist Act (E.T.A.) of 2014 when the Senate returns to work on Monday, September 8th. Currently, it’s
Maggie Haberman at Politico reports the name of John Podesta repeatedly surfaces in discussions over who may play a key role, or possibly even head up a Team Hillary in 2016. The now senior Democrat could act as a bridge
The Kansas Senate race involving Republican Pat Roberts has gone from ridiculous, to the bizarre with one candidates desire to have himself removed from the ballot in question and, quite possibly, responsible for driving a final outcome in the race.
Republicans have unearthed a curious comment with which to hit Colorado Democrat Mark Udall as he struggles to defend his seat in the Senate. In a 2008 debate, Udall claimed he was against a “government-sponsored” solution in the health care
While Vice President Joe Biden was at a Navy shipyard in Portsmouth, N.H. praising Democrat Jeanne Shaheen for fighting base closures, Shaheen’s campaign was busy releasing a statement “to reiterate her strong opposition to the administration’s base closure recommendations and highlight the
Republican Mitch McConnell continues to hold a four point lead over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, breaking 50% for the first time and, perhaps most importantly, drawing 16% of Democrats, while Grimes is only pulling about half as many Republicans away from
The Republican establishments inability to let go of tired old dogs and allow room for new, fresh thinkers to break through may yet cause them a problem in the Kansas Senate race. “Democrat Chad Taylor has dropped out of the
As Joe Biden travels to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where he’ll appear with Jeanne Shaheen, the Scott Brown campaign is out with a new 30 second video called “No Strategy” hitting Biden on his assessment of Obama’s foreign policy, or perhaps
As Slate point out, when Liberal Democrats aren’t busy bashing conservatives for so called “dark money,” they’re fairly busy raising it themselves. The operative word here is hypocrisy. Liberals may blame conservatives for the ongoing surge of political “dark money”
U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., denied a debate request from the Minnesota Student Association to debate at the University of Minnesota. According to a report, the invitation was accompanied by “a heavy push on social media, prompting student leaders to question
An American doctor working in West Africa has tested positive for Ebola according to an announcement from his organization, SIM USA. SIM USA said the doctor immediately quarantined himself once he began to show symptoms of Ebola and is “in
Considered a leader behind Google’s “efforts to beam Internet connectivity across the globe via satellite,” Greg Wyler left the company “abruptly” according to reports. It remains unclear precisely why. There’s more background here. In another report, The Verge revealed Wyler reportedly
Barack Obama went to Wisconsin for Labor Day and Mary Burke “the Democrat at the top of the ticket there was nowhere to be seen. Burke is running against incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker but stayed away during Obama’s visit to
Both Republicans and Democrats are throwing boat loads of coin at the races that will determine which party runs the Senate after November, yet at this point, the conventional wisdom is the outcome remains a virtual toss up. “There are
With Montana Democrat Sen. John Walsh dropping out, Democrats Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu appear to be battling out to top Roll Call’s most endangered incumbent list. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is still in a perilous political position, but Louisiana Sen.
According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), when it comes to responding to ISIS, Barack Obama is “very cautious. Maybe, in this instance, too cautious.” The comment came Sunday when she appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Feinstein chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee
Mitt Romney appeared on WNYM’s “The Cats Round Table” with John Catsimatidis today and took on Barack Obama over domestic issues, including immigration. The President should have enforced our immigration laws from the very beginning. His announcement of a form of
Mitt Romney appeared on WNYM’s “The Cats Round Table” with John Catsimatidis today and had some harsh words for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama when it came to foreign policy. “Hillary Clinton and her boss Barack Obama were extraordinarily
Politico brands it “Obama’s campaign no-fly zone.” What it is, is proof of how disastrously low Barack Obama’s ratings are in a number of states crucial for Democrats if they want to hold off the GOP from taking control of
Deep-pocketed environmental activists like Tom Steyer and others have painted “a big, green bull’s-eye” on Colorado in 2014 according to a report by the Denver Post. Along with several other groups now active in Colorado “the Environmental Defense Fund on Tuesday vowed
The AP expects the GOP to “tighten its grip” on the U.S. House of Representatives this year citing “redistricting after the 2010 census and the retirement of moderate Democrats in conservative states,” although the Democrats financial edge is something of
The AP is using Labor Day to kick off “a two-month sprint toward Election Day” by pointing out five key points in both the House and Senate mid-terms elections. As for the Senate, Kentucky is certainly one key and some
In a story initially and doggedly pursued by former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan, Jesse Benton has resigned as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager, “citing potential distractions over renewed attention to a scandal from the Iowa 2012 caucuses.” At issue
Amid reports that as many as 300 Americans are fighting along ISIS in Iraq and Syria and citing his own record of having introduced two bills while serving in the Senate that would have stripped U.S. citizenship from those “providing material
Barack Obama might not be able to make it to the golf links on Saturday, he’ll be attending the wedding of his personal chef Sam Kass and MSNBC host Alex Wagner. Kass and Wagner, dubbed by Vogue the political “‘It-couple’
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Elizabeth Warren will be in Colorado stumping and raising money for Mark Udall’s re-election bid on Friday. Politico has reported that she’ll be appearing with Udall and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. There are no additional
According to alleged neighbor Fontaine Wells, 65, of the home Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu has now claimed as her state residence, “I don’t think she lives there. She might come visit, but come on now — she lives in D.C. I don’t
As if worry about what Obama might do regarding illegal immigration wasn’t enough, vulnerable Democrats now have an entirely new concern. The Obama administration is reportedly negotiating a deal to try and lower greenhouse gas emissions by “naming and shaming” governments
Pointing out that New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte “has held three times as many town hall meetings as Jeanne Shaheen,” while only being in office “half as long as Shaheen,” today the New Hampshire Leader blasts Shaheen as basically a mouth piece
Azcentral.com bills itself as “the oldest and most-visited local site in Arizona, bringing together the state’s largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic; its most-watched television station, KPNX-TV Channel 12; and the Valley’s leading Spanish-language publication, La Voz.” Consequently, it seems more