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.…

Jun 10, 2010 – Even knee-jerk Democratic partisans, such as Chris Matthews and Bill Press, refused to defend him. … In 2004, John Kerry spent $6.4 million of John Heinz's money on his presidential race, and still lost. … lost, generally to more experienced candidates.…

Jul 9, 2010 – President Biden recently protested that he saw no "grand debacle" coming in November for Democrats, thereby giving a name to Democratic … And Paul is now neck and neck with his Democratic opponent in a race a Republican should easily win. … So far -- in Congress, among conservative leaders, among prospective presidential candidates -- that leadership has been lacking.…

Jul 9, 2010 – In that poll, the GOP led the Democratic Party by a very moderate 45 to 43 percent, but the cincher was voter enthusiasm; Republicans … “Reality is starting to strike the Democratic caucus.” … In the top 30 most-competitive seats, the margin is even higher: Democratic candidates trail their opponents by nine points.…

Jul 8, 2010 – This same hypothesis is often applied to the political arena -- voters receive, assimilate and process information regarding candidates … The study looked at college football games played within 10 days of presidential, gubernatorial and Senate elections from 1964 to 2006 … During Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, Democratic political adviser James Carville coined the phrase, "It's the economy stupid."…

Jul 19, 2010 – from the Soviets, but from the Stalinist regime hailed to the high heavens by the Congressional Black Caucus, befriended by Democratic … Presidential candidates (“Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, a man I regard as a friend," George Mc Govern) and preparing for…

Jul 11, 2010 – positioned himself as the anecdote to the corruption of Nixon’s incomplete second term and swayed many of these voters to the Democratic … A vivid illustration of this problem emerged in the 2000 presidential election, when the “pro-family” George W. … The “war on terror,” and the radically different visions about that war held by the two major presidential candidates, apparently wasn…