A super PAC tied to the Koch brothers, Freedom Partners Action Fund, is spending $6.5 million on advertising across six states in what’s being framed as “closing arguments.” The ads shy away from hot button issues like immigration, or Ebola, instead seeking “to
Yesterday, Breitbart News reported on a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll that has Democrat Al Franken leading Republican challenger Mike McFadden 53 to 38 percent. We later updated with a statement from the McFadden campaign. Additionally, subsequent research of our own casts further doubt on
Neither Barack Obama, nor another prominent Democrat, “Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, former governor and federal felon Edwin W. Edwards,” managed to show up at what was billed as a large Louisiana event for Democrat Mary Landrieu, yesterday. While Landrieu appears to be
Update: The McFadden campaign has offered the following response to the survey. From Tom Erickson, McFadden for Senate spokesman, “If the guys at SurveyUSA really think that Democrat turnout in Minnesota will be higher than 2008 or 2012, then we’d like whatever
Ater an ISIS (or ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) threat against Rep Michele Bachmann emerged online last week, federal law enforcement took it seriously enough that Capitol Police have now assigned her a special security detail. An online
When Obama has lost liberal Al Hunt with his choice of Ron Klain for Ebola czar … well, you get the picture. I’ve know Ron Klain for years, respecting him as a smart operative who understands the nexus of politics
The Hill said it over four days ago, “Ebola has become the October surprise of this year’s midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans doing battle over everything from restrictions on travel to the disposal of a victim’s remains.” ABC followed
WSDU News 6 reports on a controversial ad airing on several radio stations in Louisiana, one aimed at Democrat Mary Landrieu and perhaps Democrats as a whole. The ad claims that one in three babies aborted in America is black,
Perhaps in keeping with his self-proclaimed status as “Obama’s best friend,” or maybe thinking that the last thing the GOP should do before an election is show any real leadership from the one branch of government they actually do control,
Two new ominous polls for Democrats have both the party’s and the president’s numbers tanking just as we head into the stretch run for the November mid-terms. A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Wednesday has Obama’s job approval down to 40%,
The Washington Post headline may not say it all when it comes to the Senate race in Kentucky but it certainly says plenty. Alison Lundergan Grimes and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day Not only did the DSCC
In what’s shaping up to be a hotly contested race in New York’s 1st Congressional District – polls have the candidates tied, and even Speaker John Boehner traveled to NY to raise money for Republican Lee Zeldin – in an opening statement, Zeldin
As the GOP continues to struggle – more than many believe it should have to – to take control of the Senate this year, it’s worth remembering that goal was actually closer to realization in 2012 and today’s establishment GOP
According to ABC News, Gabby Giffords “has stepped squarely into the spotlight, appearing in campaign ads, becoming a talking point in debates and, at times, overshadowing the candidates themselves” in the battle for her former district. And that’s just her
Facing a tough election with an unpopular Democrat in the White House and an already less than motivated base, Democrats have now taken to blaming pollsters, a move that may be one part wishful thinking and twpo parts trying to
One would think that with a tough election battle between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Raymond Buckley, would want college-aged voters upbeat and focused, as that bracket of
While not completely turning on the Democrat in the White House, in an interview with Salon, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren wasn’t exactly raving about his performance in the White House, either. In 2011 Vanity Fair suggested Warren had been “pushed
“2014 voters are hawkish,” according to J. Ann Selzer, after conducting an Iowa poll for The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics. That can’t help but be more good news for a Republican Party as we move toward the November elections.
A funny thing happened on the way to the Governor’s mansion for Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s wife, Cylvia Hayes. While Hayes told Kitzhaber about two previous marriages, she failed to mention a third. And it looks like it was a
They tried to pass off Mary Landrieu’s last minute camapign shake up as just a bit of fine tuning. If that were true, it seems to have backfired, leaving her campaign off balance, with others left trying to hit the right
The media may be reporting the quote verbatim, but Jeanne Shaheen’s message to barack Obama as she’s fighting to keep her Senate seat there couldn’t be more clear. Stay out of New Hampshire, Barack! Shaheen to MSNBC on whether or a
Kansas Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate Greg Orman may not say much about precisely how he’ll vote if elected to the Senate, but at a press gaggle after the recent Johnson County Public Policy Forum in Overland Park, KS, he
Mitt Romney was early in his endorsement of Iowa republican Joni Ernst, now, with a month left until election day, he’s returning to do two public events for her next week. Another recent Romney claim that he won’t be running
Some Democrats don’t want anyone named Obama anywhere near their races, according to the New York Times. “She’s awesome, but it just brings in the name Obama,” said a Democratic strategist in a state with a close Senate race, who,
It can hardly be called a ‘blitzkrieg,’ or lightening war, as Hillary Clinton has already been around forever, while showing no signs of going away; however, as Maggie Haberman points out in Politico, Hillary is upping her offense, whether you
