For good reason, many Republicans are worried about the prospect that Donald Trump could end up winning the Republican nominee, but they don’t seem to have a plan to stop him.
The GOP “establishment” isn’t planning to take on Donald Trump directly and instead relying on Republican primary voters to come to their senses. They may be waiting for something that will never happen.
Different criteria than in the past, but there may not be much of a change in the participants.
A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.
Once the Republican frontrunner, Jeb Bush is now floundering and dealing with donors worried that they may be backing the wrong horse.
Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus suggested that Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn’t get used to their place at the top of the primary calendar. He’s right, but fixing the crazy system that put them there isn’t going to be easy.
More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.
A trial court Judge in Oregon is the latest public official to refuse to do his job.
The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.
Scott Walker is flip-flopping on immigration again, while his poll numbers sink like a stone.
The POLITICO gang report that a “Joe Biden strategy for [a] White House run [is] taking shape.”
Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.
The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.
Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.
A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.
As much as I wish it were otherwise, Iowa and New Hampshire are not losing their influence over the Presidential primary process.
Billionaire wunderkind Elon Musk has had a lot of help from taxpayers.
Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.
Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.
Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.
A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.
In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.
A bill pending in Louisiana seems likely to become the next national focus in the debate between marriage equality and claims of ‘religious freedom.’
Harry Reid made outlandish claims about Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. He probably knew they were lies when he made them. And he doesn’t care.
After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.
Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]
The Republican National Committee is trying to bring some sanity to the Presidential debate process, but there’s no guarantee it can succeed.
The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.
The Court holds that Federal Law does not require employees to be paid for the time waiting to get through mandatory security screening.
It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.
Based on the available evidence, there’s very little evidence that Voter ID laws had a significant impact on the midterm elections.
An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.
The Keystone XL pipeline bill is dead until the next Senate. Mary Landrieu’s political career, on the other hand, is basically dead for the foreseeable future.
After the 2010 elections, several newly Republican state legislatures flirted with the idea of changing the way their state allocates Electoral Votes. The outcome of last weeks elections raises the possibility that this could happen again.
Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.
Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In addition to gains at the national level and in Governor’s races, the GOP also saw more gains in state legislatures around the country.
2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.
Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie picked an odd issue on which to start his closing argument to Virginia voters.
Not surprisingly a Federal Judge has blocked New Jersey’s latest effort to legalize sports gaming. As a matter of policy, though, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be legal to place wagers on sporting events.
All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.
Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.
The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.
