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As I noted on Friday, the GOP could use some unifiers who can fuse the Tea Party’s enthusiasm and small-government devotion with the mature street smarts of conservative stalwarts who possess...
View ArticleThe 2010 Midterm Election in Perspective
In shifting through the fine analysis that emerged in the aftermath of last week’s midterm elections, a few data points are particularly noteworthy: Republicans picked up more House seats than in any...
View ArticleWhich Failed Leader Will Hang On?
There are parallel storylines that will tell us something about the two parties’ abilities to course correct. On one hand, we have Nancy Pelosi, who is determined to hang on past her expiration date....
View ArticleFollow the States, But Only the Right Ones
This report makes the point that, unlike the federal government, state officials have had to make hard choices to balance their books. The impression one gets listening to the mainstream media and...
View ArticleCould 2012 Be Worse?
As we’ve noted, 2012 may be another perilous outing for Democratic incumbent congressmen and senators. The number of Democratic senators on the ballot in the next cycle (23, including the two...
View ArticleWaiting for Cream to Rise to the Top
Fred Barnes writes: Why do the potential Republican presidential candidates (with one exception) seem so old, dull, and uninteresting? There are a few simple answers. Most of the candidates are a...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
What happens when the Democratic majority ends: “President Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze on federal pay, saying federal workers must sacrifice to reduce the nation’s budget deficit. …...
View ArticleThe Rangel Censure Joke
For months now, we’ve witnessed a charade when it comes to the wrongdoing of Rep. Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York. The charade came to a climax yesterday with the official vote to censure Rangel....
View ArticleThe Obama Primary Challenger Issue and Why It’s Misunderstood
With angry leftists starting to discuss the possibility of a primary challenge to Barack Obama, the general reaction from serious and clever political observers has been that the idea is a preposterous...
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Hollywood Irony Watch: Political Fantasist Sorkin Calls Palin a Fake
In the 1990s, liberals weren’t entirely happy with a triangulating and philandering Bill Clinton, but they were able to escape from that reality in a movie written by Aaron Sorkin called The American...
View ArticleReapportionment Means Obama Just Lost Six Electoral Votes
Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election so handily that losing a few electoral votes from his 365 to 173 margin of victory wouldn’t have made much of a difference. But there is every indication...
View ArticleBoehner’s Tears Seen as Sign of Strength
Members of the political left — who regard themselves as crusaders for gender equality — have an interesting habit of mocking conservatives like John Boehner and Glenn Beck for getting misty-eyed in...
View ArticleA Challenge for Smart Power
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has posted the witness statements from its January 25 hearing regarding the United Nations. During the hearing (the video is here), there was an interesting colloquy...
View ArticleDemocrats Criticize Rand Paul’s Call to Cut Aid to Israel
JTA is reporting that seven Democratic senators sent a letter to top GOP senators yesterday, calling on the Republicans to repudiate Sen. Rand Paul’s comments about cutting foreign aid to Israel: “At a...
View ArticleDemocrats Could Tip the Scales in Ohio
Mitt Romney seems to have gotten a small post-Michigan bounce in the next key primary state of Ohio, but he’s still trailing Rick Santorum by a few points in the state, according to a Quinnipiac poll...
View ArticleTide Starting to Turn in Va and Ohio
In an election that all polls show to be a tossup, the focus on the battleground states that will decide the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney is growing more intense. But two recent polls...
View ArticleWill Early Voting Help Obama Win?
Democrats are crowing today about how their early voting operation is giving President Obama a big edge over Mitt Romney. Early voting has been a priority for the Democrats who have fought hard to...
View ArticleThe Real Bellwether May Be Virginia
For most of the presidential campaign, the focus has been on Ohio. No Republican has ever won the presidency without the Buckeye State, and Barack Obama’s victory there was a crucial factor in...
View ArticleGood Signs for Romney in Ohio Early Voting?
Breitbart flags this tweet from The Hotline’s Josh Kraushaar, which suggests good news for Mitt Romney in the Ohio early voting numbers: Overall, early vote turnout OH up 2.44% in state. Down -4.1% in...
View ArticleWhat Would an Ohio Recount Look Like?
At the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin previews what a recount would look like in Ohio. Forget not having a clear winner tonight — if the election comes down to a dispute over a few thousand votes in Ohio,...
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