Obama and the Tea Party: BFFs?
The left says President Obama needs to stand up to the Republicans more. The Tea Party says it wants less power in the federal government, Wall Street...
The left says President Obama needs to stand up to the Republicans more. The Tea Party says it wants less power in the federal government, Wall Street...
David Helfenbein | Posted 05.25.2011
From 2006-2008, I studied political polarization in great detail at the University of Pennsylvania. My final research project can be found online here...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
In 2008 Obama won 53%; in 2010, the GOP won 54%. Now what?
Posted 05.25.2011
In her new book, The Family Dinner, Laurie David talks about the importance of families making a ritual of sitting down to dinner together, and how fa...
Jim Neal | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a silver lining for the president. The heat's off. It's now the Republicans' economy to fix and it's the Republicans' responsibility to create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
Posted 05.25.2011
As millions of Americans filled out their midterm ballots, they had difficult decisions to make about K-12 education policy in their respective states...
Posted 05.25.2011
The 2010 election will be endlessly analyzed for weeks on end: Why did the Democrats lose the House? What was the significance of the Tea Party? Will ...
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama would be very smart to begin calling on some of the people he has been distant from and who could give him the smart counsel he has until now stayed away from. Bill Clinton would top my list.
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
The Blue Dog caucus was literally cut in half yesterday, from 54 to 26 members. Now people can argue whether that is good or bad -- but no serious political observer can say the strategy worked.
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011
The tea party is now in the awkward position previously occupied by the Obama hope crusade of having to deliver and will suffer a similar political fate if it fails to deal with the economic crisis.
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The fate of the Democratic Congress was put before voters Tuesday in midterm elections that drew Americans to balloting stations starti...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans are confident they are poised to build a wave as large as the one that swept them into power in 1994. Yet, just as in 1946, the party is poised to regain the majority while still weak, and without a strategy for going forward.
Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm a businessman. Want more jobs? Treat our workers as if they're Chinese!...
Carl Jeffers | Posted 05.25.2011
Usually, the party out of power is counting on its continuing momentum leading them to victory on Election Day. This time, the party out of power is hoping to freeze momentum right where it is today.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.25.2011
If these dysfunctional Democrats fail to vote this Midterm, they will only have themselves to blame for the chaos that will ensue to the detriment of the American people.
Norman Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011
A Democratic electorate is demoralized and dispirited from keeping the dirty talons of Republicans from the throats of America. It looks like the end of the Empire.
Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...
Politics Daily | Bruce Drake | Posted 05.25.2011
The number of Americans who identify with the Democratic Party has fallen steadily since 2008 and the result is that states considered to be in the "s...
Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats, stop worrying about the Republicans slamming you for increasing the debt or for burgeoning socialism. Otherwise, the have-nots, in their inchoate anger, will once again sweep the haves to power.
Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011
At some point up in Sacramento, the people's representatives got together and decided, "Sorry guys, we just don't have room for healthy families anymore."
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011
In the months to come you will continue to hear about 2010 as a Republican year. But over the last few weeks, the political landscape has started to shift in ways that may completely upend the conventional wisdom.
Dave Maass | Posted 05.25.2011
Recently, for San Diego CityBeat, I interviewed Nick Popaditch, a retired Marine, Republican and the Tea Party favorite to replace Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) in Congress.
fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 05.25.2011
For some time, I've been part of the doom-and-gloom brigade when it comes to Democrats' fortunes at the midterm elections this November. As early as l...
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been widely reported that House and Senate leadership are likely to include President Obama's plan to overhaul the student lending system in the...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
According to the Murtha for Congress Committee, Joyce Murtha felt it was "too soon" after her husband's death to be campaigning. Mr. Murtha, a Democra...
Paul Tullis | Posted 05.25.2011