+Special Elections | 258 days ago

New York’s Special Election: Looming Upset Would Be a Rebuke to Obama

By Alex Altman

Back in May, Democrats pulled off an upset in a special election in Western New York, snatching a House seat in a Republican stronghold. On Tuesday the GOP appears ready to exact its revenge.

Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive, holds an edge over Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin in the special election to replace Anthony Weiner in New York’s Ninth Congressional District, according to recent polls. The district has been in Democratic hands since 1923. But surveys conducted by Siena College and the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling show Turner, 70, on the verge of snapping that string.

+Campaign Finance | 339 days ago

American Crossroads and the Ascendant Super PACs

By Katy Steinmetz

The leaders of American Crossroads, the conservative super PAC formed last year under the watch of Karl Rove, sat down with reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in D.C. this morning. The subject of the discussion was, of course, money: the role deep-pocketed super PACs will play in 2012 and the specific spending plans [...]

+Democratic Party | 385 days ago

Could Democrats Retake the House?

By Alex Altman
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Updated: May 10, 2011, 2 p.m. E.T. Six months after suffering a shellacking in November’s midterm elections, Democrats believe they can pick up the 25 seats they need to snatch back the House. Mapping out a path to 2012 may be a fool’s errand this far out. But political momentum and the topography of the [...]

+Uncategorized | 1578 days ago

Fraud at the NRCC

By Jay Newton-Small

It’s been six months since the last congressional corruption scandal (ahem, Senator Stevens?). So for those who might have be thinking the Abramoff era was coming to an end, today’s statement out of the National Republican Congressional Committee should perk you up. From NRCC Chairman Tom Cole: 

”As part of our ongoing efforts to institute [...]