Too Much Is at Stake in Virginia for a Blackout in Coverage
With just over a week to go, will we rise to the occasion and help Virginia Democrats keep control of the State Senate?
With just over a week to go, will we rise to the occasion and help Virginia Democrats keep control of the State Senate?
B.D. Gallof | Posted 05.25.2011
We change now for change's sake, hoping that somehow it is not insanity for us to repeat ourselves but that one of these new leaders will provide anything besides rhetoric and/or going through the motions.
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
The New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections. The Massachusetts special election. The Utah Republican party conventions. The Mollohan party upset in West Virginia. Yesterday's results. How many wake-up calls do politicians need?
B.D. Gallof | Posted 05.25.2011
Tom Suozzi's supposed easy ride to a third term blew out in embarrassing fashion as many voters were not seeing change or results.
Ben Tribbett | Posted 05.25.2011
If this election serves as a reminder that pandering to right wingers is not a successful electoral strategy -- then Deeds will have done even more good for Democrats than if he had won today.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress should be America's representative body, yet too many of its members bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent.
Peter Connolly | Posted 05.25.2011
For Democrats who value their Congressional majority, the 2009 Election results might suggest a need for caution in pursuing major new liberal initiatives until the deficit is brought down.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Karl Rove wasn't too happy about the way the White House dismissed the Most Important Off-Off-Year Elections In United States History, and amid a weir...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Arianna joined Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, on The Joy Behar Show tonight to discuss Rush Limbaugh slamming President Ob...
Geoff Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?
The Denver Post | Jessica Fender | Posted 05.25.2011
The Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts will continue to operate in aging, asbestos-filled buildings. Aurora will close four of its seven librar...
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
It is the fundamental failure to make the economy the central issue of this Presidency that has left the door open for the Republicans. It is also a door that it easily closed next year by the President and his team.
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
While the Democratic Party certainly has its problems right now, these contests do a better job of illustrating severe Republican weakness than anything else.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Much has already been said about Politico editor John F. Harris's recent idiotic "7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told" article. Matt Yglesias mak...
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as the results from actual, live campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey roll in, the political and media establishment is fixated on the anniversary of Obama's election.
Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011
When even old George Will thinks Mary Jane is riding the Freedom Express, you know that national legalization can't be too far away.
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.25.2011
At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...
Page Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011
The Rising American Electorate now constitutes a majority of the voting-eligible population in America. And it goes without saying that if they stay home in 2010, the chances for progressive reforms will drop.
Washington Post | Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
A rebounding Republican Party savored victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Ch...
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans, conservative Democrats, and corporate lobbyists are all eagerly lining up to spin the losses as evidence that Democrats should go slower. That is the worst possible thing they could do right now.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Tuesday's elections are local races -- not measures of President Obama's ability to deliver or a referendum on the president's popularity, according t...
Deborah Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011
Corzine has weeks to seal his legacy, and the Democratic legislature has to push through its most powerful members' agenda items as well, before it faces unknown terrain with Chris Christie.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.01.2012