On Sunday’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, political panelist Cokie Roberts discussed Nate Silvers predictions, which he said there is a 60 percent likelihood the GOP will win majority control the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections: Follow
Statistician Nate Silver believes the Senate is trending toward Republicans. On ABC’s This Week, Silver projected that Republicans have a 60% chance to win the six seats they need to take back control of the Senate in November. His data
Statistician and ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver, known for the accurate political predictions, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” the Republicans have a 60 percent chance of wining the U.S. Senate in 2014 midterms and could possibly pickup as many
A concerted effort to attack the Koch brothers is being mounted by the Democratic Party in their desperate attempt to keep control of the Senate in 2014. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the point man as the party has
Fox News reports on the unpopularity of Obamacare and how the Republican party believes it has made a number of Democrats vulnerable in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. Washington Republicans say they are now competitive in more than a dozen
You have to love the fact that Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats have been taken off message, and are are now forced to attack the Koch Brothers, instead of trying to defend their indefensible support for the
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his Statehouse office and home as part
Conservatives have been frustrated that their elected representatives from conservative states often go to Washington and abandon everything they promised to do while on the campaign trail. Oklahoma Senate candidate T.W. Shannon believes his record will convince Oklahomans that he
Thousands of Republican grassroots activists are gathering across Texas in Senate District (SD) and county conventions to continue the process that began in their local precincts on March 4th, of building the new 2014 Republican Party of Texas platform. Delegates
Pro-gun legislation which would allow “teachers, parents, and school visitors to have guns concealed and locked in their cars in school parking lots” is awaiting Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s (R) signature. Speaking in support of that measure, State Sen. Brent Steele
President Obama delivered his weekly address this morning, following up on the themes of last week’s: namely, pressuring Congress to raise the minimum wage. This week, however, the president insisted that the minimum wage was a women’s rights issue, because
On his Friday “Real Time” program on HBO, host Bill Maher lamented that the differences between Republicans and Democrats were too subtle and pointed to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) Democratic challenger’s Alison Grimes embrace of firearms as not
Reeling from controversy over her ill-fated radio interview with Laura Ingraham, Rep. Renee Ellmers is claiming she has the “same position” on immigration as Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee. But a review of her position – and
Science is rife with corruption, incompetence, dishonesty and fabrication–and now, thanks to a frank resignation letter by the US’s top scientific misconduct official we have a better idea why. David E. Wright, a respected science historian, has just quit his
Republicans are celebrating the 4th Anniversary of Obamacare as they look forward to an expanding electoral map that could see them retake the Senate this November. Though the official anniversary doesn’t happen until Sunday, Friday afternoon RNC Chariman Reince Priebus
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police officers have urged lawmakers to keep an exemption in state law that allows undercover officers to have sex with prostitutes during investigations, touching off a heated debate. Authorities say they need the legal protection to
On March 20th the Florida House passed warning shot legislation 93-24. This would allow citizens under attack to fire a warning shot instead of retreating and instead of shooting the attacker immediately. According to Bradenton.com, bill sponsor Neil Combee (R-Auburndale)
A Tea Party candidate became the first ever state senator in Pennsylvania to win as a write-in candidate on Tuesday in a special election that showed how dissatisfied voters are, even at the local level, with both organized political parties.
Henry Holt & Company, which will be publishing Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) new autobiography, A Fighting Chance, on April 22 through its Metropolitan imprint, made no mention of her discredited claims of Native American heritage in the description of the
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two days after Illinois Republicans chose a multimillionaire as their candidate for governor, the powerful Chicago Democrat who controls the Illinois House proposed a tax on millionaires Thursday to fund the state’s financially strapped education system.
Yesterday, the Department of Justice denied Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s request to have a special prosecutor look into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative groups. Cruz, concerned that the DOJ investigation was compromised due to the political
vSen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) confirmed on Wednesday evening that he is still unaware of the five-year-old Tea Party movement that has rocked U.S. politics, including the U.S. Senate in which he has served for 36 years. “I said I didn’t
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America’s tolerance for
Conservative Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse, who has been surging since being labeled the anti-Obamacare candidate, has released a “Constitutional Madness” bracket to highlight the lawlessness of the Obama administration. “Which is President Obama’s worst constitutional violation?” the bracket says.
Avid Common Core supporter and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) met in Nashville Wednesday with U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN), for a roundtable discussion that was sponsored by the pro-Common Core Tennessee Chamber of Commerce
