Jul 3, 2014 – big lies of U.S. political history morphed into a cliche -- that Richard Nixon used racist politics to steal the South from a Democratic … A brief stroll through Bruce Bartlett's "Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past" might better enlighten us. … The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, secession and segregation, of "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman and the KKK.…

Jul 2, 2014 – The endorsement is significant for a number of reasons. (1) While Romney has endorsed some 30 Republican candidates in recent months … The former Republican presidential nominee is set to endorse Senate candidate Scott Brown on Wednesday, campaigning publicly in New … The day is supposed to be focused on Brown's quest to defeat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen this fall.…

Jul 17, 2014 – Senate nominations began around the country earlier in the year, many pundits viewed the contests as simply a test of "tea party candidates … Make no mistake; both the primary election among a host of candidates and the ensuing runoff between Congressman Jack Kingston and … He has his endorsements as well, including one from businessman turned presidential candidate Herman Cain.…

Jul 15, 2014 – Hot Air, my colleague Noah Rothman wrote about the piece written by the Cook Report’s Amy Walter, where she describes a 2016 Democratic … Rothman noted that such a development would create “panic, mass desertion, rampant substance abuse, and night terrors among Democratic … As Walters and Rothman noted, the 2016 Democratic field has the potential to be very crowded – and possibly competitive – if Hillary…

Jul 27, 2014 – “The present era of incredible rottenness is not Democratic,” wrote Mark Twain, “it is not Republican, it is national.” … What Jindal is referring to are the candidates who made bizarre comments during the election, like Todd Akin the Missouri Republican … Obama, you remember, gave Buffett a Presidential Medal of Freedom.…

Aug 7, 2014 – After a plagiarism scandal significantly damaged his re-election ambitions, Montana Democratic Senator John Walsh … The Montana Democratic Party now will choose a replacement for Walsh to appear on the Nov. 4 ballot, along with Republican Rep. … She spoke at both the 2008 and 2012 Democratic presidential conventions. David Wanzenried.…

Aug 7, 2014 – Tennessee even holds its presidential primaries on Super Tuesday. … Yet, when it comes time to elect or nominate state or federal candidates, the Volunteer State waits until Thursday. … But how do the polls looks for their preferred candidates?…

Aug 1, 2014 – And harkening back to those anti-Iraq War Republicans, he teamed with Democratic Sens. … The 2008 Democratic primary was an anomaly, as it was fought almost entirely on the question of the justification for the war in Iraq … Presidential contenders and those vying for the ideological future of the GOP more generally will have to contend with the plans that…

Jan 16, 2013 – Unfortunately the GOP has too often put forward candidates that advocate the very policies that they criticize their opponent for. … Ericynot wrote: The other problem is that Romney was the most disingenuous candidate I've seen in 42 years of presidential voting. … Christie might as well change to being a member of the Democratic Party.…

Jan 16, 2013 – A presidential campaign can, in some respects, be likened to the government’s political R&D program. … By extrapolating P&G’s R&D budget, a presidential campaign appropriately would cost around $80 billion, arguably four times that. … And yet, the last presidential election involved, by the Center for Responsive Politics measure, only $6 billion.…

Jan 14, 2013 – Like Daniels, Pence was a conservative presidential hope in 2011, but his advisers realized he should seek executive branch experience … When he decided to run for governor in 2004 and try to end 16 years of Democratic dominance of the governor's mansion, other potential … But a voter hunger for leaders of faith and limited government is still available for the harvest by competent candidates like Daniels…

Jan 13, 2013 – Unfortunately the GOP has too often put forward candidates that advocate the very policies that they criticize their opponent for. … Ericynot wrote: The other problem is that Romney was the most disingenuous candidate I've seen in 42 years of presidential voting. … Christie might as well change to being a member of the Democratic Party.…

Jan 30, 2013 – The 1994 gun ban is blamed in part for the historic losses suffered by Democratic congressional and presidential candidates in 1994…

Jan 30, 2013 – Christie leads all of his potential Democratic opponents by 2-to-1 or more. … A growing number of governors means a deeper field of presidential aspirants. … A broader army of state legislators means more experienced candidates for the House and Senate.…

Jan 28, 2013 – Committee chose to hold its recent winter meeting in Charlotte because North Carolina was a rare bright spot in last year's presidential … Some emphasized the search for better candidates. … And on Election Day, McCrory defeated Democratic rival Walter Dalton by nearly 12 points.…

Jan 28, 2013 – parties' orthodoxies.And the perceived success or failure of those policies and programs tends to determine how the parties' candidates … than was the case from the 1950s to the 1980s.For years, white Southerners voted Republican or for a third-party candidate in presidential … elections and Democratic in congressional and state contests.…

Jan 23, 2013 – In the first two years he had Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and, if he knew as much then as he does now, he would have … Senate increased their majority, but that had more to do with dreadful Republican candidates in at least three states more than an … He will keep pushing the envelope of Presidential prerogatives, bypassing that pesky Congress altogether.…

Jan 21, 2013 – In two of those races, the Republican candidates had very close races but were snubbed by “true conservatives.” … Paton ran in a Democratic-leaning district, which became even more heavily Democratic with a 9-point voter registration edge after … The “true conservatives” hold Republican candidates to a standard that few could live up to.…

Feb 7, 2013 – But consider that under establishment-backed candidates, from George H.W. … Bush to Bob Dole to Mitt Romney, Republicans have failed to win a majority of the popular vote in five of the last six presidential … What these candidates shared, besides establishment backing, was the complete lack of a coherent political philosophy.…

Feb 7, 2013 – The Democratic Party must be cheering. … "The leadership of the Democratic Party wants to run a country," he said. … Can you hear the Democratic Party cheering even louder? More Republicans to target one another, YEA!…

Feb 7, 2013 – candidates. … After needlessly bombastic talk in the 2012 presidential primaries, they have gone to the other extreme of emphasizing amnesties instead … Democratic politicos don't want closed borders, only to see the melting pot someday turn their loyal supporters into independent voters…

Feb 6, 2013 – Bush called him -- crafted Bush's two presidential campaigns and served as a key player in Bush's White House. … This project, as the Times put it, will "recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives … She was not a legal scholar, but in 1988, at the age of 43, she had contributed to Al Gore's presidential campaign.…

Feb 5, 2013 – National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said last week, referring to his party's rigorous debate schedule in the 2012 GOP presidential … -- who won't exactly bring glory to the Democratic Party. That will be their problem. … For Republicans, there is a real determination to avoid the exhausting and rocky road the candidates traveled in 2012.…

Feb 1, 2013 – Calling Rush Limbaugh “the leader of the Republican Party” was later reported to be a Democratic strategy. … There is good reason for Obama and other Democratic politicians to go to war with talk radio, which has a history of blocking liberal … If the second were true, the last two GOP presidential nominees wouldn’t have been John McCain and Mitt Romney.…

Feb 18, 2013 – What hurts the Democrats in any districting plan is the fact that the Obama Democratic constituency is geographically clustered. … Blacks, Hispanics and gentry liberals tend to live in densely populated urban areas that are hugely Democratic. … You can find many 80 percent Democratic congressional districts. You'll have a hard time finding an 80 percent Republican one.…