Sep 30, 2010 – The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported … He is furious that an unsophisticated electorate might not return congressional Democratic majorities in 2010. … Note that few Democratic candidates are running on the health-care bill they passed, promising at the time that it would be appreciated…

Oct 17, 2010 – “Elections,” as one very wise Democratic strategist reminds, “are always won in the middle.” … Democrats, in their presidential defeat of 2004 and their victory of 2008, captured the identical percentage of Democrats but 3 percent … “The party candidates have to fashion a different image for themselves than that of the president,” Rozell explains.…

Oct 8, 2010 – and those who are members of minority groups, especially blacks and Hispanics, turn out in larger-than-usual numbers for a non-presidential … percent -- because a larger proportion of them are under 18 years of age or are not citizens.Hispanics have traditionally voted Democratic … , but various Republican presidential candidates have been able to make substantial inroads into the Hispanic vote.…

Oct 24, 2010 – All this spending, said presidential adviser David Axelrod, "is a threat to our democracy." … As more than half of all political candidates discover every election year, such efforts often fail. … In 2008, candidates for the U.S.…

Nov 5, 2010 – Republicans faced a similar problem in Colorado, where Democratic Sen. … Hispanics generally vote Democratic -- but they are not monolithic voters similar to African-Americans. … In six of the presidential elections since 1972, Hispanics have given Republican candidates 30 percent or more of their votes.…

Nov 2, 2010 – My point is simply that Americans don’t elect presidential candidates with records and backgrounds this extreme—but they did on November … figure, from the far left, who understood what happened is Mark Rudd, the 1960s radical communist who spearheaded Students for a Democratic…

Nov 1, 2010 – You might know Johnson as the Republican running against Democratic Rep. … "We've got some exceptionally strong candidates from the top to the bottom. I'll be shocked if they don't win." … Their efforts for Johnson, Boccieri, and Space underscore the importance of Ohio as a bellwether for the presidential race just two…

Oct 29, 2010 – Despite daily assaults from the Democratic machine, liberal media and Hollyweird -- not to mention the stray fraggings from Beltway … When Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell challenged Democratic opponent Chris Coons in a constitutional debate … But these same smug mockers have spent the past two years deriding Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov.…

Oct 28, 2010 – div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The Democratic … Committee formally has asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential … candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the…

Nov 16, 2010 – By those signs, the curtain is set to rise on the 2012 GOP presidential campaign. But what about the candidates? … Barack Obama, then just a junior senator from Illinois, stirred Democratic hearts during a December trip to New Hampshire. … A quick rejection by GOP candidates of the presumptuous declaration of inevitability by Politico.com and NBC that they would be in…

Nov 12, 2010 – Mark Warner (Va.), who has a national profile and fundraising base because of his 2008 presidential ambitions, would take the job.  … Other Democratic senators whose names have been floated as candidates for the job have also said no. “Sen. … Michael Bennet has decided against chairing the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2012 election cycle, according to sources…

Nov 11, 2010 – Bush also scored higher on his verbal SAT than did Rhodes scholar and "brainy" presidential candidate Bill Bradley. … Democratic former President Lyndon Baines Johnson famously quipped that Ford, who played football for the University of Michigan, " … Palin, if she decides to run, faces a grueling series of challenges -- just like the other candidates.…

Nov 10, 2010 – Two months ago, The New York Times reported that "Democratic officials" believed "corporate interests, newly emboldened by regulatory … Responsive Politics, Democrats and Republicans each shelled out $1.6 billion during this election cycle, including spending by candidates … The amount of independent spending was more than in any previous midterm year and nearly as much as in the last presidential election…

Nov 10, 2010 – The biggest Democratic success stories involved re-elected Sens. … Rand Paul in Kentucky, and many other youthful candidates bringing fresh, conservative perspectives to high office. … , what younger generation Democratic star could plausibly succeed Obama?…

Nov 22, 2010 – Many people in the Republican Party wonder why the majority of Jews continue to vote Democratic. … The last time Jews preferred a Republican Presidential candidate was 1972. … Last month, a prominent temple in Los Angeles decided to open its doors to the four candidates running for Governor and U.S.…

Dec 1, 2010 – Senator George McGovern from the sparsely-populated state of South Dakota became the Democratic nominee in 1972 but went on to lose … Yes, the GOP might follow the occasional Democratic example and select from an array of appealing and promising fresh faces in 2012 … But Huckabee’s 2008 presidential run, powered by his formidable communications skill, suffered consistently from limited financial…

Nov 29, 2010 – business of genuine "hate," instead pose a direct threat to the advancement of postmodern secular-socialism generally - and to the Democratic … Moreover, the FRC and AFA play host to presidential candidates, lawmakers and top conservative leaders from around the world at Washington's…

Nov 29, 2010 – Senate Democrats may have finally identified a member willing to take the reins at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for … This task has proven challenging for party leaders, as a cavalcade of possible candidates have demurred in the face of a harrowing … Nothing has been finalized yet, these Democratic sources cautioned.…

Dec 15, 2010 – According to the tally by the Washington Post, she endorsed a total of 64 candidates in the course of the campaign; 32 of them lost … The actual state-by-state results from 2008 show that in a strongly Democratic year, voters actually rewarded rather than punished … Averaging all five of the GOP presidential candidates of the last 20 years, McCain’s performance counted as slightly better than the…

Dec 20, 2010 – Next month the Republican National Committee will elect a chairman to lead their party into the 2012 presidential election. … chairman Michael Steele, who has been a source of controversy throughout his two year tenure, is being challenged by a number of candidates … , Hispanic voters played a key role in defeating Sharron Angle in her challenge to Harry Reid in Nevada, and a large Hispanic Democratic…

Dec 17, 2010 – The divide among conservatives is mirrored in the split among likely GOP presidential candidates. … Other Republican candidates will weigh in in the weeks and months ahead and their disagreements will be about tactics, not substance … They know the new House can send over a thousand bills but that the Democratic majority can turn them all aside.…

Dec 31, 2010 – Candidates across the country ran TV ads that highlighted the benefits of embryonic stem cell research without mentioning that the … At one point in the fall of 2004, Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards told a crowd that if presidential nominee John…

Dec 31, 2010 – A Senate dominated by two dozen endangered Democratic incumbents should help bring the out-of-control EPA to heel. … The president's willingness to indulge and indeed encourage such radical behavior should be a huge issue in the 2012 presidential campaign … The GOP presidential candidates who help stop the EPA will also greatly improve their standing across the political spectrum, including…

Aug 4, 2011 – But leading from behind is also a description of what most of the declared and all-but-declared Republican presidential candidates … there's a history of presidential candidates casting cheap-shot no votes on debt ceiling bills (e.g., Barack Obama in 2006). … But it may be weakening the Republican Party in 2012 by demanding that its presidential candidates take positions that no president…

Aug 2, 2011 – Perry sees the momentum that put the House back in Republican control and also narrowed the Senate Democratic majority carrying over … Conservatives are nervous about whether any of the announced GOP candidates can defeat President Obama, who continues to slip in the … Thompson, the former Tennessee senator, who was a late addition to the 2008 presidential race, never seemed to have the stomach for…