Oct 25, 2010 – In Colorado, it’s Common Cause of Colorado, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service Employees International Union caught in an apparent scheme to foist some 6,000 shady voter registrations on the state. In Arizona, it’s illegal alien amnesty-supporting, SEIU-tied Mi Familia Vota again and One Vote Arizona...

Oct 25, 2010 – Without further ado, Townhall presents the top ten most despicable Democratic attack ads of 2010:10. …

Oct 25, 2010 – By late 2003, even the Bush White House's staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But for years afterward, WikiLeaks' newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins,...

Oct 25, 2010 – The two underdog candidates in Florida’s Senate race teamed up during a debate Sunday to try to knock down the frontrunner in the contest, Republican Marco Rubio. Gov. Charlie Crist, second in the polls by a wide margin, used the forum, aired on CNN’s “State of the Union” and held at...

Oct 25, 2010 – It's official: A week before the midterm elections, odds are that Republicans will win control of the House but Democrats will keep control of the Senate, according to the overseas bookmakers taking bets on this sort of thing. Ireland-based Paddy Power says Republicans are "hot favorites" at 1-33 odds to...

Oct 25, 2010 – VANCOUVER, Wash. — You don't have to trek far to see how bad times can rattle the political landscape. Just beyond the southern reach of Puget Sound, the two candidates vying to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Brian Baird are locked in a campaign that many analysts suspect would play...

Oct 25, 2010 – PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's initial measure of Americans' 2010 Christmas spending intentions finds consumers planning to spend an average of $715 on gifts, roughly on par with the $740 recorded in October 2009. The $25 decrease in Americans' holiday spending intentions between October 2009 and October 2010 (not a statistically...

Oct 25, 2010 – Even political junkies might not be able to identify LeAlan Jones, Shawn Moody, Scott Ashjian and Ceci Iglesias, but all four could have a major effect on the political balance of power after Election Day. They're all running as third-party or independent candidates for office. It's unlikely that any of...

Oct 25, 2010 – NPR CEO Vivian Schiller has issued an apology in the Juan Williams firing incident. The mia culpa, however, is not addressed to Williams, but to employees who are “on the front lines every day” and are dealing with the fallout. “I want to apologize for not doing a better job...

Oct 25, 2010 – Alaska lawyer Joe Miller is confident that he can close the deal with voters in the final eight days of the unusual three-way Senate contest, although the Republican’s campaign team is aware that self-inflicted wounds have added to the challenge. But Miller’s string of unforced campaign missteps might not yet...

Oct 25, 2010 – It is the day many voters thought might not come: the last debate between U.S Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway. The two are scheduled to have their last debate Monday night at Kentucky Education Television.

Oct 25, 2010 – The College Republican National Committee is launching its second-ever television ad Monday, and the GOP group is zeroing in on the same place President Obama launched his college campaign tour: the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The CRNC's latest ad will run through Nov. 2 on basic cable stations. Its...

Oct 25, 2010 – The former mayor of Carmel is "not a fan" of the current president. Clint Eastwood told Katie Couric during a CBSNews.com interview that President Barack Obama is doing what he can to stay in his job, but that he's not actually "governing." Eastwood supported Obama's Republican challenger John McCain two...

Oct 25, 2010 – Voters will do much more than decide control of Congress next week: They will determine whether the most powerful political figures in Washington are up, out or ousted from their leadership jobs. Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful House speaker in decades, is in serious danger of losing her job, either...

Oct 25, 2010 – The second edition of the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been pushed back to spring, a court spokesman said. Once scheduled for January, the start date for Blagojevich's next trial is now April 20, said Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. District Court in...

Oct 25, 2010 – Republicans are on the verge of broad wins next week for one big reason: independent voters are ready to boot Democrats from office, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll. Expressing deep dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policies and performance, independents have increasingly sided with conservatives in the belief...

Oct 25, 2010 – A political group of gay conservatives will begin airing ads against a handful of Democratic candidates on Monday, including a spot against openly gay congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts. In a statement, GOProud declares that this is "the first time ever a national gay organization is airing a television...

Oct 25, 2010 – Tiffany Hartley, whose husband was reported shot by Mexican drug bandits last month, has some words for President Barack Obama. "He should wake up and look at what's going on in our backyard," where drug cartel battles in Mexico have led to hundreds of deaths. Her husband, David Hartley,...

Oct 25, 2010 – A leading national tea-party group, anticipating big electoral gains for conservative Republicans, is laying plans to maintain pressure on new members of Congress after the Nov. 2 vote. According to an internal memorandum reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella group that says it works with...

Oct 22, 2010 – Stay tuned for exclusive Townhall reports on Sean Bielat and Jeff Perry, the Republican candidates running in the respective races.Here…

Oct 22, 2010 – On a day when U.S. Sen. Patty Murray hosted President Obama in Seattle, Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi toured a Kent aerospace company and later rebuked Murray for requesting millions in earmarks during her time in the Senate. Rossi, who is in a tight race with the Democratic incumbent, met...

Oct 22, 2010 – Striving to preserve a Democratic Senate majority, President Obama stumped in Seattle Thursday for Sen. Patty Murray, framing her re-election fight as a choice between "falling backwards and moving forwards." During a serene backyard chat at a North Seattle home and a raucous campaign rally at the University of Washington,...

Oct 22, 2010 – State Supreme Court justices Richard Sanders and James Johnson stunned some participants at a recent court meeting when they said African Americans are overrepresented in the prison population because they commit a disproportionate number of crimes. Both justices disputed the view held by some that racial discrimination plays a significant...

Oct 22, 2010 – The Obama administration on Friday urged the world’s biggest economies to set a numerical limit on their trade imbalances, in a major new effort to broker an international consensus on how to handle festering exchange-rate tensions. Officials from Britain, Canada and Australia quickly expressed support for the idea, and as...

Oct 22, 2010 – The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is likely to cost taxpayers an additional $19 billion and may cost as much as $124 billion more if the economy starts shrinking again, according to a government projection released Thursday. The rescue of the mortgage giants, which has helped keep...