Mar 5, 2012 – Obama will attend only one fundraiser each for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign … Committee, and as of now, will not be making any appearances at individual candidates' events. … candidates up and down the ballot.”…

Mar 5, 2012 – of the last 25 years providing explanations and excuses, one of which is that there typically have been few Jewish Republican candidates … Senate seat – because Ohio will also be a bloody battleground between the presidential candidates. … feels that his Jewish background and his name recognition in the county will help negate the strength Brown might expect in this Democratic…

Mar 1, 2012 – Toomey went on to win the next election, as Specter switched parties and lost in the Democratic primary. … There is a reason why presidential candidates rarely come from Congress. … They were directed into Democratic households, urging Democrats to vote in the Republican primary against Romney since Romney opposed…

Mar 1, 2012 – This year’s presidential election will be a contest between truth and lies. Don’t think it’s that stark? … Friess with the kid-glove treatment they gave North Carolina Democratic Gov. … Obama is counting on them to skate over his prevarications and instead apply a microscope to the Republican candidates, including jokes…

Mar 20, 2012 – As the Republican presidential primary drags on, 27 debates later, with no candidate yet obtaining 50% of the delegates, speculation … Delegates would be permitted to change their votes at the convention and support anyone, even new candidates. … Instead of a mostly democratic process of electing the nominee, the nominee would be chosen by political hacks.…

Mar 19, 2012 – And voters in Democratic California approved a ballot measure turning redistricting over to a nonpartisan commission. … Big Hispanic population increases in Texas and Florida forced Republicans to create new Democratic districts. … candidates give parties different images.…

Mar 13, 2012 – As a Democratic staffer explained to The Wall Street Journal reporter who questioned the marriage penalty written into Obamacare, " … Democratic consultant Tony Podesta has cooked up 83 bills to increase handing out more taxpayers' money to single moms. … Most Republican presidential candidates, as well as conservative think tanks, publications and PACs, have presented proposals to "reform…

Mar 27, 2012 – No good idea ever made its way unimpeded and unscathed through the democratic political process. … voters, carried out from a leather chair on the Budget Committee, is easily greater than any performed to date by certain actual presidential … candidates who shall be discreetly nameless.Just in case, though, let's remember the nature of great presidents, which is in part…

Mar 23, 2012 – Democrats did it), Jim Crow laws (Democrats did it) and other historic abuses heaped on black Americans in our country by the Democratic … Since its founding, the Democratic Party has always tried to generate racial strife; it just uses a little different strategy today … Herman Cain is not only wildly popular; for awhile he was the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination.…

Mar 22, 2012 – His Senate counterpart, Democratic Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, tends to agree. … The Republican presidential candidates seem more amenable. … Ryan knows far more about the budget than any of the presidential candidates.…

Mar 21, 2012 – Sapphire's CEO, Jason Pyle, has donated exclusively to Democratic campaigns, candidates and committees -- and his company's website … Candidates." … Solazyme's ties to the White House and the Democratic establishment in Washington are myriad. As blogger J.E.…

Apr 9, 2012 – Time for a postmortem on the race for the Republican presidential nomination. … They've voted increasingly Democratic over the past 20 years, turning target states into safely Democratic states. … Affluent voters like articulate candidates and dislike impulsive ones. George W.…

Apr 7, 2012 – It's the health reform John McCain proposed during the last presidential election. … Just as most Democratic candidates don't want to talk about ObamaCare, Republicans don't want to talk about the McCain plan either.…

Apr 6, 2012 – Typically, both candidates poll in the mid-40s, while 10 to 12 percent remain uncommitted to either side. … Romney has struggled to win over these voters in his primary contests, and Obama lost them to Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic … Given the public mood, it is almost beyond comprehension that neither party could come up with a presidential candidate opposed to…

Apr 3, 2012 – The presidential "education" goes on:   They keep telling us that if we convert more of our investment in education, research … But here's the solution proposed by Republicans in Washington and embraced by most of their candidates for president. … *UPDATE - A thoughtful reader suggests that if it's fair to blame irresponsible Democratic excesses for contributing to the housing…

Apr 3, 2012 – Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential … primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot. … Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.…

Apr 14, 2012 – As the White House scrambled Thursday to prevent "mommy wars" damage done by a Democratic advisor, one expert cautioned that politicians … need to learn to communicate with women voters, who factor strongly in this presidential election. … "I don't have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates," Obama said.…

Apr 26, 2012 – Vice presidential candidates, though commonly thought to be politically important, rarely make a discernible difference.Dan Quayle … In 2000, when Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be the first Jewish running mate, the Democratic share of the Jewish vote soared to 79 … Who fares best among the possible candidates according to these criteria?…

Apr 24, 2012 – That's what an outsider looking at the country's first-round presidential voting results might have been led to believe. … The weekend vote knocked out all but the two candidates long expected to square off in the May 6 final: Socialist Francois Hollande … marginalize people who don't adhere to the increasingly prevalent culturally Marxist views that drives them to seek out and support democratic…

Apr 24, 2012 – whether the GOP presidential nominee should run as a conservative or more of a centrist.How often have we heard both Democratic and … The first problem with this is that it implicitly suggests that all presidential candidates are first and foremost politicians who … Yes, that was three decades ago, but Republican presidential candidates can still successfully run as mainstream conservatives; they…

Apr 20, 2012 – By that standard, what do the people of France, in the final weeks of their presidential election, wish to hear from their candidates … She calls for an "Arab Spring" in France, a democratic revolution, yet sounds statist with her pledge to force down oil and gas prices…

May 8, 2012 – Last week, I showed how the Republican Party likely would lose the presidential election in November if it were to use conventional … The past GOP presidential competitors were and are a unique blend of gifted and talented people. … For too long, too many of our politicians (especially presidential candidates) have expected us to sacrifice our political preferences…

May 6, 2012 – Indeed, presidential candidates have been picking at the income-inequality scab since at least 1840. … "In a democratic, capitalist society, gaps in income are inevitable," write Peter Wehner and Robert Beschel Jr. in the current issue … "Yet it is worth noting that democratic capitalism has done far more to create wealth, advance human flourishing, and lift people out…

May 6, 2012 – For, you see, most of these candidates were not and are not “good.” They may be “better” in some sense than the Democratic alternative … Indeed, bad Republican candidates — “big-government”/neo-conservative/made-on-Wall Street/“compassionate conservative” candidates — … The best candidates for our attention do not scuttle the good. They scuttle the bad. That is our history.…

May 6, 2012 – is doubtful that President Obama can take any credit for it since his promised cap-and-trade plan did not make it through the Democratic … The issue of costly climate change mitigation schemes is about more than just our presidential candidates. … than a carnival fortune teller, scientific misconduct, and harsh economic impacts don’t add up to a strong foundation for a presidential…