The Brookings Institution hosted a live Web chat today with their voting guru Michael McDonald. Below are questions I submitted as well as a few other exchanges. Turnout and what prods that turnout seem, predictably, to be on everyone’s minds during these least few weeks.
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With predictions of 50-seat gains and chamber sweeps abounding, TIME took a closer look at what threats remain for the GOP. This interview with our Washington bureau chief, Michael Duffy, breaks down the dark lining to the Republicans’ silver cloud, as he sees it.
The two candidates duking out a personal battle for Obama’s old Senate seat — Democratic State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and five-term Republican Congressman Mark Kirk — took their beefs to the set of Meet the Press this morning.
Sitting in the D.C. studio, the two candidates spoke nary a word before the segment and twiddled their …
The UK has been more productive than the US in addressing climate change, legislatively at least. In 2009, the EU committed to a “20% by 2020” resolution to cut carbon emissions as a whole, a measure that allowed for intriguing means of flexibility like limiting the increase on emissions for developing (read: Eastern European) …
When you’re suffering from lack of attention—be you a speed skater in full-body Lycra, a soldier in an unpopular war or a union leader in an uphill battle—there’s one man you definitely want coming to your aid: Stephen Colbert, the newsman-satirist of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” This was a lesson driven home …
Like a deserted wife who, years after the fact, still insists her husband is due home any day, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka seems a bit out of touch. Making the traditional Labor Day rounds, his assertions about what voters will be swayed by and how races will pan out this fall just don’t jibe with the zeitgeist (or the poll …
Economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics was in the spotlight at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, where reporters quizzed him on policy and predictions, some more heartening than others. Jay and Crowley both addressed House Minority Leader John Boehner’s economic-themed speech yesterday, but below are some …
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 substance, intrigue or …
Colorado, with its funky mix of liberal college cities and rural farming towns, ritzy ski resorts and barren tracts of mountain land, is a 2010 bellwether state. The statewide races are toss-ups, and factors beyond the platforms are playing big in most races. Gubernatorial hopeful and former Republican representative Scott McInnis keeps …
The Congressional Budget Office today released its long-term budget outlook, confirming what we already know: Something’s gotta give. The report contains projections for how spending and revenue will look over coming decades. According to their number crunching, we’ve set a course toward superlatively unfortunate ratios of …
The wolf wars continue to rage in the Rockies. Ever since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in May 2009, animal-rights activists and hunting supporters (amongst others) have been howling at each other. We covered the controversy from the “hunter harassment” angle back in April, …
A new Pew Center survey on global attitudes was the subject of this morning’s Christian Science Monitor breakfast, where D.C. pundits and reporters periodically converge over coffee and sausage links. Summoned to comment were former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Senator John Danforth and Pew President Andy …
We’ve yet to see how much of the anti-establishment talk is just talk and how much incumbents should be shaking in their power suits. Political report publisher Stu Rothenberg says the doomed-incumbent narrative has been overstated. “There’s evidence of Tea Party activism, of voters being suspicious of anointed candidates. But I …
