Jan 25, 2010 – won the Massachusetts seat in the US Senate that had been held by the Democratic Kennedy dynasty since 1952. … candidate and poor planning by the national Democratic Party apparatus. … Today, it seems likely that many Democratic lawmakers will refuse to fall on their swords for Obama.…

Feb 17, 2010 – Bayh is the fifth Democratic senator who is not running in this year's midterm elections, handing the GOP one more vulnerable open … On Capitol Hill, Democrats were shaking their heads in disbelief at the number of Democratic incumbents and potential candidates who … And five more Democratic seats are considered toss-ups, at best, or leaning Republican: Arkansas Sen.…

Feb 11, 2010 – The problem is the president and the congressional Democratic leadership wants to expand government controls and raise taxes, while … Republican candidates for the House and Senate are ahead in polls in many states. … Second, they must find a strong presidential candidate who will bring experience and a realistic worldview to the problems that confront…

Feb 24, 2010 – Spontaneous, grassroots uprisings are exhilarating and the tea parties and health care townhalls last year helped flatten the Democratic … “Their trick is to ask, ‘What do we do to force Republican candidates or any candidates to earn our support?’” … Reagan in 1976 ended up remaking the GOP, and then they incorporated the Christian conservatives awakened by Pat Robertson’s presidential…

Mar 11, 2010 – WASHINGTON -- The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state … The decision neither overturned "a century of law" nor conferred an entitlement on foreign corporations to finance U.S. candidates. … Nevertheless, the Democratic donkeys arrayed in front of Obama leapt onto their hind legs and brayed in unison, while the six justices…

Mar 8, 2010 – His point was that the big government policies of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders are resented and fiercely … No one would include Perry on a list of serious presidential candidates, including himself, even in the flush of victory. … Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to reduce the power of the Democratic-union combine with referenda was defeated in 2005 when public…

Mar 5, 2010 – To demand that Republican candidates toe the Tea Party Line - or else. … candidates how to gain ballot access in the 30 - 40 Districts which the Ds think are in most peril. … Republican incumbents won't lose to Tea Party candidates.…

Mar 17, 2010 – Had he taken the opposite position – raising his voice as the Democratic presidential nominee to block the federal rescue of the banking … admired Presidential nominee of his party, Senator Obama easily could have shifted that support and doomed the bailout. … That experience helped persuade additional Democrats, and 91 of 199 Republicans, to go along with both presidential candidates and…

Mar 30, 2010 – strategy for Republicans given the long trajectory between now and the November election, and the even longer one before the 2012 presidential … And it is a tribute to the power and capability of the Democratic Party and the incompetence of the Republican Party -- it's a dual … Q: You have experience when Democrats were in the majority, as they are now, and with taking it back from a Democratic majority in…

Mar 23, 2010 – In those 28 years, the GOP share of the presidential vote fell from 40 percent to 23 percent. … Richard Nixon and Reagan carried California seven times on presidential tickets. … If California, New York and Illinois are moving out of reach for GOP presidential candidates and the party is being annihilated in…

Apr 1, 2010 – Naturally, there was talk of disputing the election results and disqualifying some of the winning candidates to reverse the outcome … Remember the Long Count in Florida that marked this country's presidential election in 2000? … Given an election in which the division between the leading candidates is smaller than the margin of error, trouble ensues.…

Apr 19, 2010 – Candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton lobbed brickbats at each other over who was and wasn’t likeable, with Obama commenting … If the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee can apply the likeability test to his top challenger surely Tom Coburn can invoke … What about current Presidential chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel? Mr.…

Apr 12, 2010 – Mike Pence, head of the House Republican Conference, told me from Arizona, where he had gone to campaign for GOP candidates. … there for repeal, and even if there is, and the whole thing passes Congress, Republicans won't have enough votes to override a presidential … That's one glaring vulnerability in the Democratic strategy to pass national health care now but push its enactment years into the…

Apr 21, 2010 – Some 68% of American adults are overweight and more than 30% are obese, but none of the serious presidential contenders in recent years … In the past, American voters cheerfully supported candidates of size: Grover Cleveland weighed 250 pounds when he won his first term … His Democratic opponent, scrawny jogger Jon Corzine, even aired some ads showing his portly opponent struggling to get out of a car…

May 9, 2010 – Bush's 44 percent in the 2004 presidential contest. Obama helped kill that bill, and he won 67 percent of the demographic. … In 2003, the Democratic California Legislature passed a bill to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. … And: California Democratic Sens.…

May 5, 2010 – With a record number of black candidates seeking Republican nominations in upcoming congressional races, the GOP may finally make … projections for 2012 suggest that self-identified whites will comprise 70 percent or, at most, 72 percent of those who cast presidential … him the GOP candidate would need to win an unimaginable 65 percent of all white voters -- whose numbers include such stalwart Democratic…

May 20, 2010 – And candidates with ties to either better beware. … and Democratic leaders disappeared late Tuesday." … In Arizona, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain finds himself in a primary dogfight against former Rep. J.D.…

May 14, 2010 – Democratic presidential candidate John F. … Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater lost support by voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. … In presidential elections, Hispanic support can swing widely. In 1996, Bill Clinton got 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.…

May 12, 2010 – nonprofit corporation, from using cable Video on Demand to distribute a documentary -- "Hillary: The Movie" -- during the 2008 Democratic … presidential primary season. … accepted, would empower the government to prohibit newspapers from running editorials or opinion pieces supporting or opposing candidates…

May 26, 2010 – After all this 2-1 Democratic district voted for Al Gore over George Bush by a staggering 55 percent-44 percent in the 50-50 presidential … Also, Democratic turnout was very high because loyal Democratic Party voters came out in droves to punish the top of the ticket turncoat … For those Democrats who hope to negatively caricature tea party candidates this fall, Harmer will be a difficult target.…

Jun 8, 2010 – Before the emergence of Barack Obama on the national presidential scene, lots of Democrats felt that Davis would eventually become … Therefore, he essentially used the same methodology in his race for governor as he did in the 2008 primary presidential contest for … Unfortunately after being ignored in 2010 just like they were in 2008, black Democratic leaders in Alabama did the unthinkable.…

Jun 8, 2010 – On this matter of offering federal jobs to potential candidates to induce them not to run against Senate Democratic incumbents … Second, as columnist Byron York reports, members of Congress are not permitted to sit on presidential boards. … But the report says "efforts" were made to determine if Sestak would be interested in serving on a presidential board "in June and…

May 31, 2010 – In the 2006 and 2008 congressional elections, the Democrats' campaign chairmen Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel fielded candidates well … Looking back on all the presidential contests held since Obama as a Columbia undergraduate was parroting leftist criticisms of Ronald … Democratic victories in 1992 and 2008 were indictments of the two George Bushes for incompetence and in 1996 an endorsement of the…

Jun 18, 2010 – This language was a carryover from the presidential campaign, when all of the Democratic candidates bemoaned the Neanderthalic "Republican…

Jun 16, 2010 – In 1992, the feminists in the media rejoiced at what they called "The Year of the Woman," when 10 Democratic women (and one Republican … In 1992, the evening newscasts aired 29 stories exclusively devoted to women Senate candidates. … In 1992, the morning shows interviewed women Senate candidates on 26 occasions. In 1990, there were zero interviews.…