Today the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2010 findings. The decennial survey of the states found the U.S. population grew at 9.7% over the last decade to 308,745,538, the slowest rate since the Great Depression. The report cost $1.87 billion less than expected, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. But, most importantly, the census [...]
One political dynamic that’s emerging this election season is the strength of the right and the weakness of the left. While the Tea Party appears, in many ways, to be steering the ship of the Republican Party, on the other end of the spectrum, progressives may feel like their banging their heads against the wall. [...]
In the new newsstand/iPad issue of TIME, I have a story about the Republican primary for the Delaware senate seat previously held by Joe Biden. (Sign up and we will mail you a copy.) It pits the patriarch of the state Republican party, Mike Castle, against an conservative pundit riding the Tea Party wave named [...]
According to the emails I get every day from the Democratic National Committee, the Tea Party movement is a Democratic gold mine. It has helped to nominate unpopular Republicans, like Sharon Angle in Nevada, and it has split conservative vote in districts like New York-23, allowing Democrats to win even when they should not. It [...]
Tomorrow doesn’t quite rival Super Primary Tuesday, when voters in 11 states hit the polls on the same day in June, but three states—Michigan, Kansas and Missouri—are going to chuck candidates out of the 2010 race, and there are plenty to choose from. Here are a few crowded house races that, for the sake of [...]
It keeps getting better. First we have this ad from Florida, which as Jonathan Martin points out, asks a crucial question for the electorate: Does Florida want to elect a Senator who doesn’t wear collar stays? But that’s nothing compared to the wormy chocolate, don’t-vote-for-my-dad attack. Oklahoma’s KFOR has the story: To read about the [...]
I wanted to post this video yesterday, but never had time to report out the identity of its author. Thankfully, CNN’s Peter Hamby, the network’s man for all things South Carolina, did the legwork. It turns out that this is not an official campaign product of Alvin Greene, the Democratic party’s unexpected candidate for the [...]
It’s a wonder this isn’t more common: A shadowy conservative political group, called the American Future Fund, is spending more than $200,000 on an attack ad in Tennessee targeting Bill Haslam one of the Republican candidates for Governor in the upcoming August 5 primary. Here’s the spot: Did you catch that bit at the end? [...]
