Rich Iott, a 2010 Ohio candidate for the U.S. House who drew national attention for participating in Nazi reenactments where he dressed as a member of...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A congressional candidate criticized for dressing in a Nazi uniform during World War II re-enactments is facing questions from hi...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A congressional candidate criticized for dressing in a Nazi uniform during World War II re-enactments has lost his election bid i...

David King is running for a statewide constitutional office that is second in line to the governorship after the lieutenant governor. And he's accused of rape.

Whatever else tomorrow means, it will not mean that the country wants its leadership to engage, above all else, in the demonization of people who are different and downtrodden. Long-term, the GOP strategy is unsustainable.

The Republican Party could regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in next Tuesday's midterm elections for the first time since losing pow...

Focusing on the effect the Tea Party will have on the Republican Party on Nov. 2 and beyond misses the point because it falsely suggests that the Tea Party and the Republican Party are different entities.

Regardless of the outcome of the 2010 elections, the Tea Party has already made history by spawning the craziest crop of political candidates America has ever seen.

House Minority Leader John Boehner gave more than $2,000 than previously reported to Rich Iott, the Ohio Republican Congressional candidate who fell o...

If there's one thing that we've learned from our periodic examinations of the 2010 campaign's self-funders, it's that self-funding your own campaign is a pretty bad idea unless your name happens to be Michael Bloomberg.

If you see this weird, paranoid, fundamentalist, bigoted crowd, funded by the most reactionary of corporate interests, as somehow doing something better for the nation, then you're either a fool or one of them.

If candidates like O'Donnell are elected, they will likely continue to embarrass and begin to isolate the Republican Party through their extremist views and will also almost guarantee the failure of that party to accomplish anything.

The fact that the more and less authoritarian now find homes in opposite political parties has made our politics almost impossibly acrimonious.

House Minority Leader John Boehner's political action committee -- Freedom Project -- has reportedly contributed thousands of dollars to the campaign ...

With just three weeks left until primary elections, no punches are being pulled in the push to pick up vital last-minute votes. West Virginia Governo...

HuffPost founding editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Monday night to talk about Rich Iott, the GOP House candidate from Ohio who has ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Republican congressional candidate from Ohio, countering criticism from a House GOP leader, said Monday that he did nothing w...

As Coach Bill Parcells said, you are what your record says you are. And the Republican record says that their slate is filled with out-of-the-mainstream, clearly unqualified, Tea Party-influenced candidates.

An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congre...