Eight years after the country watched Republicans use every procedural trick possible to stack the deck in their favor during the Florida recount, Republicans in Mississippi are doing the same thing by trying to bury a hotly contested U.S. Senate contest at the bottom of the ballot where thousands of...

Last night the DSCC's Road to Victory series caught Barack Obama backstage just before he made his dramatic surprise appearance at the convention. Obama talks about how important it is to elect enough Democratic Senators to pass his agenda in 2009 (and note him whispering to the camera while you...

Exxon Mobil announced a staggering $11.7 billion in second quarter profits today, the largest quarterly profits of any corporation in history, and the latest in a string of record-shattering profit announcements from the industry. Record-high oil prices may be squeezing Americans at the pump, but it's obviously good business...

Republicans desperately searching for someone to run against popular New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg appear to have come up with a new candidate today, and it's a novel choice: a New York nightclub owner who was fired from his last job and then sued by his own family members...