President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration ushered in a new era that sought for America to re-engage with the world. Two years later it still stands i...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Ronald Reagan got his shellacking in the 1982 midterm elections, with his party suffering big losses in the House. Twelve...
R.O. Blechman | Posted 05.25.2011
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
The traditional media loves to create sweeping narratives about elections. But little things like who actually controls Congress are decided by narrower margins than the sweeping-narrative writers like to admit.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
Whatever the shortcomings of Obama and the Congressional Democrats, anything is better than Republicans in power. If they're as successful as predicted, the country and the world will be far worse off Wednesday morning.
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 05.25.2011
Talk about anti-incumbent passion. James L. Srch used his obituary to get in one last protest against the re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Bill Maher | Posted 05.25.2011
New Rule: Christine O'Donnell has to stop saying, "I'm you" in her campaign ads. It doesn't get truer the more you say it. Because it's not a spell.
Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the influence of the Tea Party movement, the GOP actually has more House candidates who have previously held elected office running for open seats than the Democrats do.
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — With only weeks left in the campaign, some staggering Democrats have jumped back into contention in congressional and gubernatorial races ...
AP | ANDREW DeMILLO and LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — President Barack Obama doesn't go there anymore. The days of Obama traipsing around the country to states like Montana, Ind...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats will find few points of optimism in a new batch of polls, with recent surveys by Washington Post/ABC News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News b...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary when the Democratic congres...
AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011
McGREGOR, Texas — Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273...
Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans are running Tea Party candidates who are so far to the right you can't see Middle America from their porch. Some endangered Democrats will likely see victory in November from theirs if they understand the public mood and speak to it.
Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
It would seem bad news abounds for the Democrats' midterm fortunes this year. In fact, I can think of only one reason for Democrats to be hopeful: the internal chaos within the Republican Party.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service complaining that a conservative foundation spending mi...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. LOUIS — Vice President Joe Biden boldly predicted Friday that voters would reject a "Republican tea party" of extreme candidates and Democra...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Seizing on the recent creation of a Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats unveiled a new initiative on Thursday aimed at fo...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats are planning to link the tea party and Republicans, overlapping the two groups to paint the GOP as a party of extremists and the grassroots ...
The Washington Post | Dan Balz | Posted 05.25.2011
Architects of President Obama's 2008 victory are braced for potentially sizable Democratic losses in November's midterm elections. But they say voters...
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
Yes, it's less than six months before the next election, but if Obama will quickly take action with the same conviction and tenacity with which he gave us health care reform, then voters will have their faith reaffirmed that he and his administration care deeply about and will diligently work to alleviate the plight of America's workers and the middle class. With that, voters' concerns, and in some cases their outright disappointment, about what the new administration should have tackled first will recede. It will sweep away the cloud that is hanging over far too many able Democratic incumbents and preserve the Democratic majorities in Congress.
John Byrne | Posted 05.25.2011
The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by John Byrne. Forty percent of self-identified Democratic voters say they are "not l...
New York Times | JOHN HARWOOD | Posted 05.25.2011
New Jersey Republicans complain that Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, has turned nasty to gain ground in his re-election bid this year. Republicans elsew...
The Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011