Something's going on in Virginia that I think is worth taking note of. The gubernatorial race there is all over but the voting and Dem...

Things are going very, very badly for the GOP right now. Their poll numbers aren't falling, so much as crashing in a precipitous fashi...

It's not well-remembered -- mostly because the media didn't do much with the story -- but earlier this year the Republican State L...

At first, the story about the NSA's massive domestic surveillance program was actually working in President Obama's favor. A Pew ...

There’s an Associated Press story out there today that may reinvigorate the Generals in the Republican War on Voting. It seems that a cer...

With the retirement of Sen. Joe Lieberman, it looked like the era of Three Amigos might be over. By joining up with John McCain and Linds...

I'm not a big fan of the headline Mother Jones chose for Kate Sheppard's piece on the GOP's ongoing attacks on reproductive f...

One of the more overlooked hurdles to the big Republican Party rebranding project is the fact that the base loves victims. Sarah Palin per...

Good news, at least one poll shows that Democrats are poised to take the House of Representatives and with it John Boehner's gavel. In...

There's been a wave of Senate Democrats announcing retirement lately, with South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson being the last. That all these...

At our core, Republicans have comfortably remained the Party of Reagan without figuring out what comes next. Ronald Reagan is a Republican ...

Last month, Nate Silver took a look at Republican chances to win a majority in the Senate. The verdict: maybe, but probably not . Of course,...

This ought to turn out well for them. Roll Call reports that the National Rifle Association plans to spend big to bring down Democratic se...

It's a problem that Republicans simply cannot ignore. In order to win a Republican primary, a candidate has to be acceptably insane. But...

In terms of votes cast for candidates to the House of Representatives this year, my home state of Wisconsin was close to evenly split. The e...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the entirely predictable GOP civil war is moving forward nicely, with those who see the demograp...

Thursday, a Fox News poll showed that the public believes -- by an extremely wide margin -- that Pres. Barack Obama would probably be reel...

When I look at polling, I tend to use myself as a model. I look at the question and think about how I'd answer it. Maybe that's not ...

Welcome to Russconsin. When Sen. Russ Feingold lost to Tea Party frootloop Ron Johnson just months ago, it appeared that the Democratic Part...

The Paul Ryan economic trainwreck budget plan is dead. While not killing it outright, Senate Republican leadership have all but abandoned i...