One by one, they have fallen. Bob Bennett in Utah. Richard Lugar in Indiana. Mike Castle in Delaware. Longtime pols, all of them, with long records in...
WASHINGTON -- Outside of the Tampa Bay Times Forum, where the Republican convention is taking place, independent conservative groups huddle in strateg...
Politicians in Washington hardly let a few minutes go by without mentioning how broke the government is. So, it's a little surprising that they've cre...
GEORGETOWN, Del. — After their bruising U.S. Senate battle, Democratic senator-elect Chris Coons and his defeated Republican opponent Christine ...
A workable centrism needs to develop from ordinary people, not political insiders. Unfortunately, most people who succeed, or even survive, in politics do so by becoming insiders.
The pattern is a familiar one. Purist conservative challengers in GOP primaries start out as asterisks in early polls, but in the final week or two...
In the last turn of a tumultuous primary season, former New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte narrowly won her state's Republican Senate primary...
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), one of the GOP's rising stars who is pointed to as a model for Republicans in the Northeast, sharply...
WASHINGTON — Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who rode voter anger to office in New Jersey last year, is endorsing Mike Castle's bid to win the G...
Of all the many lessons we can draw from this election, the one that looms out for me is that wanton attacks on another candidate's gender don't win v...
It's been easy for the Republicans to spend the last two years demonizing and obstructing the president. Well now the GOP has a share of the power, and they can no longer just sit back and throw rocks.
How have your would-be lawmakers responded to today's tough circumstances? With the most infantile, substance-free campaign in memory. 
There once was a girl named Christine She babbled quite like a pre-teen
I understand the frustrations of women voters, but there is simply too much at stake to sit these elections out. The message for progressive women is clear: Elections are tough. Get out there and vote like a girl.
As economists warn against the danger of a monopoly of industry in distorting and destroying an economy, our two party monopoly on government is causing similar effects on our political system.
Last month I rashly wrote that since Obama was starting the month on an upswing, he had a good chance of posting largish gains in September. This didn't happen.
Stomach-punched into depression by that bruising Republican primary for Delaware's open U.S. Senate seat, Rep. Mike Castle (R) chewed on an independen...
Christine O'Donnell's main strategy? Hope voters are just plain stupid and will vote for her in an unprecedented knowledge vacuum.
DOVER, Del. — Longtime Republican congressman Mike Castle has ruled out a write-in campaign in the U.S. Senate race in Delaware. Castle is also...
Republicans and the fossil fuel industry are doing their level best to give the phrase "cap and trade" politically toxic connotations. Ed Chen, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, attacked the messenger.
Democrats are enjoying sitting back with their popcorn buckets as they watch the GOP Civil War get nastier by the minute, making it even more likely that the left will have another two years at the controls.
Coons' advantage among women is helpful if he faces O'Donnell, but not Castle. The absence of favorable support among women in the Castle-Coons' matchup may speak volumes about what Castle's next move could be.
Top GOP senators rebuked Delaware Congressman Mike Castle Thursday for considering a write-in campaign after his surprise loss to Christine O'Donnell ...
(AP) - Delaware Congressman Mike Castle says he's stunned by his Senate primary loss to Christine O'Donnell and isn't ruling out the possibility of a ...
The country is in desperate need of moderate Republicans, nowhere more so than here in New York. The GOP has morphed into the Tea Party, an amalgam of the very angry and the apparently inept.
