At a campaign event on Tuesday, Democratic senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes responded to rhetoric from “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd calling into question her candidacy earlier this month after refusing to answer questions about if she had voted
Despite the incessant lectures from the mainstream press, establishment Republican politicians, and consultants about the need to pass amnesty legislation to appeal to Hispanic voters, two recent studies of the Latino electorate suggest that Republicans can oppose amnesty and still
Western Kentucky University’s 2014 Big Red Poll released on Monday shows that incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leads Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes by 3 points, 45% to 42%, among likely voters in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race. The poll,
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis will be appearing on stage alone Tuesday evening in what would be the fourth debate and final televised debate of the cycle. The incumbent, Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) declined to participate in the debate,
Democratic Senate candidate Allison Grimes (KY) is campaigning for higher wages for Kentuckians while her family’s restaurant, Huge Jass Burgers, “pays some tipped staffers minimum wage.” And Republicans in Kentucky are shining a light on this discrepancy. CNN reports that
Greg Orman, the Independent who is running against Republican incumbent Pat Roberts in Kansas’ U.S. Senate election, has made it clear that he is not tied to any party. He is a man of principle whose votes in Congress will
Tuesday during the daily press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama has not even considered strategies for the possibility of Republicans taking control of the U.S. Senate because of midterm election wins. When asked if
Louisiana’s Democratic incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is beating GOP candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in the latest poll in the state, leading him 36 percent to 32 percent. The Tea Party-backed Col. Rob Maness trails both candidates with just
With just two weeks until the midterm elections, polls suggest many Senate races remain within the margin of error. While momentum seems to have shifted to Republicans, the party is still struggling to lock-in victories in a number of states
Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has opened up a real lead in his effort to unseat Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR). A new poll released Monday by Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College finds Cotton with an 8 point advantage over
Over the weekend congregants at Kingdom Impact Global Ministries — a predominantly African American church in Fayetteville, NC — were party to an unusual political flier on their vehicles after Sunday services. “Kay Hagan doesn’t win! Obama’s impeachment will begin!
A new Kaiser Health tracking poll finds that even after four-and-a-half years of being the law of the land, Obamacare remains a mystery to most of the nation’s uninsured. The poll found that two-thirds (66%) of the uninsured say they
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
As has been previously reported, in 2009, after Democrat U.S. Senator Kay Hagan vigorously supported President Obama’s $800 million-and-change stimulus package, a company co-owned by her husband, JDC Manufacturing, received $390,000 in federal grants and green energy tax credits. The
During the “Inside Politics” on CNN’s Tuesday broadcast of “New Day,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier pointed to leaks by the Obama White House as a tell-tale sign that the Democrats are gearing up for a big loss in next month’s
A new SurveyUSA poll shows House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leading by only one point – two weeks before the midterm election. McConnell earned 44 percent in the poll, leading his Democratic opponent Alison Grimes at 43 percent. The Libertarian
Former President George H.W. Bush is not pleased about his image being used in a political ad that Georgia Senate Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn is broadcasting around the state. In an attempt to counter the claim that she will not
BOGALUSA, La., Oct. 20 (UPI) —The Louisiana Senate race may be decided by a matter of feet. That is, 36 feet, or the width of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s home in Washington, D.C. At a campaign stop in Bogalusa, La., on
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former Sen. Scott Brown, who’s running an aggressive campaign against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), is attacking her over her support for an energy tax he says would cause energy rates to spike. “For New
SEABROOK, New Hampshire — New Hampshire’s GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown ripped President Obama’s planned executive amnesty and said the administration’s quiet preparation to issue up to 34 million green cards and employment permits shows the president is willing
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) plans to introduce a bill that he says would ban visa issuance to people from Ebola-stricken nations in West Africa. “While Ebola’s deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many
A draft solicitation for contractors that are able to produce millions of new immigrant IDs confirms that President Obama is in the process of moving forward with executive amnesty, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions. “This revelation provides startling confirmation of
Voters need to be aware that the wheels are already moving on the Obama administration’s expected executive amnesty, Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) reacted Monday to the recent draft solicitation for millions of new immigrant ID cards. “I think it’s very
On Monday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that a report that the federal government issued a draft solicitation for vendors to issue ID cards “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements” was proof that “all kinds of
Republican state House Speaker Thom Tillis slammed the Obama administration for picking a “political operative” instead of a medical expert as its ‘Ebola Czar.’ “President Obama is making it clear that he is more concerned about political optics than he
