Republican Backlash Hits Tea Party Endorsee Christine O’Donnell
The nation’s 2nd smallest state is becoming the biggest battleground between the Establishment GOP and Tea Party insurgents.
The nation’s 2nd smallest state is becoming the biggest battleground between the Establishment GOP and Tea Party insurgents.
The new tea party candidate in Delaware seems to be a rather odd bird.
32 Democratic incumbents are running even or behind their Republican challengers in one or more public or private polls. At this point in 2006, when Republicans lost control of Congress, only 11 GOP incumbents were running even or behind.
Delaware’s September 14th Republican Senate Primary is shaping up to be the next battle between the Establishment GOP and the Tea Party movement.
Lisa Murkowski’s one chance at political survival if she loses the ongoing vote count in the Alaska GOP Senate Primary has gone out the window.
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held a rally on the National Mall, but at times it sounded more like an old-time religious revival than a modern political rally.
The numbers still show an exceptionally close Senate race in Nevada. They also show that a different GOP nominee would have meant a very different scenario.
Last night’s primaries continued the anti-establishment narrative we’ve seen so far this year, and put both of the statewide offices in Florida in play.
Before Sarah Palin endorsed him, most Alaskans had never heard of Joe Miller. This morning, he’s on the verge of upsetting an incumbent Senator in the GOP Primary.
Why would returning to the system of allowing state legislatures to choose Senators improve representation?
Sarah Palin’s decision to back a long-shot candidate in the GOP Senate primary in Alaska didn’t exactly work out as planned.
The Tea Party is coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday for a Glenn Beck rally and one travel guide is warning them to stay away from certain parts of the city. Subtle racism ? No, it’s common sense.
After surviving the worst of a hard-fought primary campaign against J.D. Hayworth, Senator John McCain is probably pretty pleased with himself right now.
If the response to Cordoba House isn’t basically being anti-Muslim, what is it?
Strippers didn’t attack us on 9/11. Then again, neither did American Muslims.
Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.
Harry Reid has spent the summer trying to portray is opponent as a kook. So far, it’s working.
Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.
Jon Stewart and “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore eviscerate Maxine Waters’ claims that she and other corrupt members of the Congressional Black Caucus are being investigated for ethics charges because she’s black.
Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.
Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.
What impact will Judge Walker’s decision on Proposition 8 have on politics in 2010 and beyond ?
As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.
A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.
A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.
Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.
According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.
Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.
JournoList’s archives have been making headlines at The Daily Caller, but there doesn’t seem to be any substance to the allegations of scandal.
Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.
Affluent, educated people in the DC policy community hold different views than the larger American public.
Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.
Some Republicans seem to think they don’t need to put forward any actual ideas in order to win November.
Too many conservatives forget Ronald Reagan’s dictum that “somebody who agrees with you 80% of the time is an 80% friend not a 20% enemy.”
Think Progress incorporated clips of a Tea Party video of an impostor who pretended to be a member in order to discredit the movement as a racist into a video of their own to show that the movement is racist.