Oct 7, 2009 – For decades, presidential candidates have promised to change the "way Washington works." … Term-limit activists have the right idea -- getting new blood in Washington -- but their remedy is anti-democratic. … than have some billionaire egomaniac who, in effect, creates or co-opts a ridiculous third party just so he can indulge his presidential…

Oct 7, 2009 – Hershey Garner (who stood on stage with Obama at the White House event): more than $10,000 in donations to Democratic candidates since … Amanda McKinney (who also flanked Obama at the White House event): $2,750 in donations to Democratic candidates since 2001. … The decidedly un-grassroots sponsors of the Doctors for America launch were Democratic Sen.…

Oct 4, 2009 – It all means that GOP congressional candidates may do very well in 2010. … “Those will be very difficult seats to hold onto,” concedes one Beltway Democratic strategist. … As examples, he points to post-Watergate 1974, 1994’s GOP revolution, and the 2006 Democratic takeover.…

Oct 2, 2009 – Obama is not, nor was he ever, the conciliatory, post-partisan figure he played on television during the presidential campaign.The … Fred Lucas reports that one of them is in the notoriously corrupt Democratic stronghold of New Jersey. … The national and state parties felt that only moderate-liberal Republican candidates could win in the Northeast.…

Oct 1, 2009 – , whose candidates were selected prior to Zelaya's removal. … The essential line that all still toe: Zelaya's removal, after time-worn Latin American fashion, violated democratic principles and … Chavez' technique in his assent to dictatorship was to gain lifelong power by subverting democratic institutions.…

Oct 16, 2009 – Here's the dirty little secret about political candidates and officeholders labeled by the mainstream media as "moderate Republicans … But as a state assemblywoman, she voted for massive tax increases, Democratic budgets and a $180 million state bank bailout. … Card check is the key to a Democratic majority in perpetuity. Big Labor bosses have said as much.…

Oct 14, 2009 – So why did he get it when there are so many deserving, suffering candidates struggling for justice, freedom and peace in Earth's most … Since the presidential election of 2008, which Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe stole, Tsvangirai has provided a global lesson in … jail and the death of his wife, he has refused to let Mugabe's "machinery of violence" stall his steady, peaceful Movement for Democratic…

Oct 9, 2009 – Discussing the plans floated by then-presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Krugman added they, “are not single-payer … “Nobody’s going to put their state into bankruptcy or their education system in the tank” for Medicaid expansion, Democratic Tennessee…

Oct 27, 2009 – , may be scheduled to campaign for Deeds today but that fact alone can hardly negate the lack of enthusiasm for Deeds and the Democratic … candidates." … Several days after that endorsement, the campaign found itself in the midst of Democratic infighting. …

Oct 25, 2009 – In New Jersey -- a state that has been Democratic for years (the last time the state went for the GOP presidential candidate was in … 1988) – the Democratic incumbent, Gov. … Voters are left wondering what happened to the candidates they voted for?…

Nov 5, 2009 – In 1993, New Jersey voters rejected tax-raising Democratic Gov. … Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine in New Jersey have refused to rule out tax increases … But a Corzine plurality win could scarcely be taken as an endorsement of Democratic policies in a state that Obama carried with 57…

Nov 4, 2009 – On election night, conservatives-eating-Republicans resulted in an 18-point landslide for McDonnell, who beat his Democratic opponent … Astoundingly, Jon Corzine, the incumbent governor of heavily Democratic New Jersey -- a state that Barack Obama won by 16 points just … When liberals take control of the Democratic Party, Democrats end up out of power for eight to 12 years.…

Nov 4, 2009 – The Times lectured the conservative movement to embrace this candidacy, since "creative ideas and candidates, not right-wing zeal, … Lamont and his backers as wild-eyed radicals who want to punish the senator for working with Republicans and to force the Democratic … In presidential elections, every time Republicans nominate the kind of moderation-embracing D.C. dealmaker the media would select for…

Nov 1, 2009 – You can get a glimpse of it in the New Jersey governor's race, which pits the slim, distance-running, Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine … But a generous silhouette was never the presidential ideal. When one White House visitor met 260-lb. … presidential race: "Where's the beef?"…

Oct 29, 2009 – Southern-accented Virginia hadn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. … Yes, the character of the individual candidates and local issues can make a difference. … Democratic Gov.…

Nov 11, 2009 – The most serious of these errors built upon gross misrepresentations of the presidential election of 2008 falsehoods repeated endlessly … Moreover, the district has been trending Democratic long before this years bitter split between the liberal Republican Congressional … The shift of a small percentage of conservative voters from the Republican candidate to the Democratic candidate didn’t seal McCain…

Nov 10, 2009 – Both candidates are extremely hopeful in a state where Democrats have a 13-point registration advantage. … “It’s going to be a rare year because of how tremendously mismanaged this state has been under Democratic leadership,” said DeVore. … She spent time at AT&T and Lucent Technologies before stepping up as John McCain’s financial advisor during the 2008 presidential election…

Nov 8, 2009 – Much will be said in the coming weeks about Sarah Palin and the Republican Party-- especially after the Democratic "upset" in the … In short, Palin is positioning herself to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee and getting involved in NY-23 was merely … If Palin wants to be considered a credible presidential candidate for 2012, she needs to not only release her book and go on Oprah,…

Nov 21, 2009 – What will become of NATO, the most successful example of Democratic Party leadership? … That’s why Ike challenged Taft and beat him for the 1952 Republican Presidential nomination. All of that is now at risk. … Many candidates do. But it also means he had not spent enough time in the corridors of power even to recognize the word.…

Nov 20, 2009 – Her influence and allure are practically unprecedented among failed vice presidential candidates. … Apparently, the overwrought sensationalism of the Denver Democratic National Convention, where Obama stood amidst faux White House…

Dec 2, 2009 – In his two presidential campaigns as Republican nominee, Reagan drew a combined percentage of 109.5 (representing 50.7% in 1980, and … McKinley), drew 56.4% of the vote against a listless, little-known Democratic opponent (Judge Alton B. … Republicans had made few inroads into Democratic control of the solid South.…

Apr 24, 2006 – -- think there's a double standard on leaking: Key Democratic legislators yesterday joined Republicans in saying they do not condone … That's not hypocrisy; that is responsiveness, especially since Kerry and his fellow primary candidates had made such an issue of White … We all wish Senator Kerry the best of luck in his primary campaign for the 2008 presidential election.…

Nov 7, 2006 – [Jim’s observation/question: If the bottom fell out for Democrats in blue states like these, how likely is it that their candidates … He called the 2004 Presidential race on the button. … And he’s shown in the last week a dramatic close by the Republican candidates for both governor and Senator.…

Jan 15, 2007 – A few more hours like this, and the New America of Democratic Prosperity will be seriously endangered. … actually supporting the reform they promised on a no-brainer of an issue: Among the Democrats siding with DeMint were possible presidential … candidates Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John Kerry, D-Mass., freshmen Jim Webb of Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, and Mary Landrieu…

Jan 25, 2007 – One fresh sign came from the Johnson County Sun, which said it would endorse virtually the entire Democratic ticket…after endorsing … Congress and the attorney general's post, witnessed a Democratic governor sail to a second term, and saw Democrats pick up some seats … Kansas Republicans have a lot at stake this Saturday -- and Huelskamp will have his hands full fending off other candidates. …