The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.
As the open U.S. Senate race in Florida heats up, the record of incumbent Governor Charlie Crist is rightly being examined by the news media, conservative activists and Florida voters.
Thanks to the fact everyone wants to be on a winning team, Democrats have a full roster of fresh, smart, appealing candidates. Unfortunately, there are only so many seats available.
While Linda McMahon's announcement of her candidacy for the Senate was certainly a surprise, no one could have expected the shocking response from Senator Chris Dodd. Take a look.
We are no more insulated from a financial crisis today than we were one year ago. Congress has not changed a single rule, habit or practice to stop this economic calamity from happening again.
No one in the race has the resume, experience or heft required of a U.S. Senator. In fact, the bench in Illinois is pretty weak right now, among both Democrats and Republicans.
Let's have the balls, brains and humility to learn how other countries went from the concept of universal health care to functioning systems that cost half of what the status quo does in America.
I am running for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent David Vitter. I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors.
David Vitter has not answered to his constituents or to the law for his criminal acts, his dishonesty, his hypocrisy, or his shudder-inducing cowardice.
If Richard Burr agrees with the birthers, then he is a crackpot, too. If Richard Burr agrees with common sense, he risks alienating his birther base.
Fighting for the dignity of humanity is at the core of the politics of empowerment. It is exercised by protecting the right of every eligible person to vote with fairness, equality and respect.
A big problem for the Arkansas GOP is that several of the 2010 candidates for U.S. Senate in Arkansas have recently made racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise bigoted comments.
By positioning himself as a centrist removed from the scandalous Blagojevich years, Mark Kirk has a betting chance to wrestle away a Senate seat in a purple state that has trended blue.
As harsh as this may seem, maybe it is time for Ted Kennedy to resign from the Senate and let the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts appoint a healthy successor.
Barack Obama is trying to lock in primary candidates in Pennsylvania and New York who, ahem, were never even elected to the position in question: Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.
Time will tell if Congressman Sestak makes his move against Pennsylvania's newest Democratic senator. But his options are disappearing quickly.
Obama won by saying it was a time for change. Spector can win in New York by saying it's a time for flexibility.
A couple of very interesting developments in the ongoing saga of the most vulnerable Senate incumbent in 2010 -- Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY).
Imagine putting a New York City comedian in a political showdown against the senior senator of New York State? Well, it may happen.
The legal teams have made their closing arguments and the trial has concluded as the three-judge panel will now deliberate for, likely, a period of weeks to determine who won the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.
In desperately clinging to the myth that votes were widely double-counted, the Coleman camp repeats the concept "one man, one vote."
