The blizzard of attack ads, the waves of outside money and the phalanx of national operatives and press descending on New York’s 26th district all attest to the fact that Tuesday’s special election has taken on special meaning. …
“I made a mistake,” Newt Gingrich said Tuesday night, the latest in a series of mea culpas designed to resuscitate a campaign that conservative commentators believe to be on life support. After calling Paul Ryan to apologize for …
One of the raps against Newt Gingrich is that he lacks the discipline to sustain the rigors of a presidential campaign. And while an outburst or two was inevitable, it’s safe to say nobody expected the former House Speaker to …
The lurid revelations from the Senate Ethics Committee’s report on John Ensign’s alleged cover-up of an extramarital affair have raised a battery of questions, including why the Department of Justice and Federal Election …
The Senate Ethics Committee’s report accusing John Ensign of violating federal and campaign-finance laws doesn’t just reflect poorly on the former Nevada senator. It also highlights lingering questions about the Federal Election Commission’s ability to do its job.
Among the investigation’s findings was the revelation that Ensign, who …
This is what the guessing game has come to: I spent part of Thursday night watching a choppy feed of a banquet in Indianapolis, trying to interpret a speech given by a woman desperate to escape the klieg lights of politics. Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor and possible presidential contender Mitch Daniels, did just fine in her …
The Senate Ethics Committee released a report Thursday afternoon alleging that former Sen. John Ensign broke federal laws in a cover-up of the extramarital affair that torpedoed his once-promising career.
After a series of head-fakes and stutter steps, Newt Gingrich finally jumped in the GOP presidential race Wednesday, announcing his candidacy on Twitter and previewing his platform in a YouTube video set to soothing elevator music. The rollout wasn’t perfect: Gingrich’s website, Newt.org, still featured empty space earmarked for quotes …
A once-sleepy special election in Western New York has emerged as a bellwether of how two potent political variables could upend the 2012 campaign calculus.
New York’s 26th district is a conservative redoubt, a sprawling …
Barack Obama’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as President is the main attraction of Tuesday’s Lone Star state swing. Obama will tour a cargo facility and give a speech in El Paso, the latest effort in a push to court a …
John Boehner looked a little like a kid summoned to the principal’s office. Standing at the podium Monday night before a sea of business tycoons in New York City, Boehner was a tad shaky and plenty defiant, the reluctant bearer …
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 …
Jane Corwin has an Internet problem. The Republican candidate in the May 24 special election in New York’s 26th Congressional District — the seat vacated by the resignation of Craigslist Congressman Chris Lee — has a sleek campaign website at janecorwin.com, which touts her business background and enumerates her endorsements. But her …
