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September 2, 2010, 8:17 AM

Congressional Democratic incumbents are faced with a peculiar predicament in 2010. A highly publicized memo, leaked to and published in Politico on August 19th, urged incumbent Democrats to avoid talking about their signature legislative accomplishment of the 111th Congress, namely health care reform. In the search for new issues to run on, Democratic incumbents and challengers have an attractive alternative in the “extreme positions” that the new wave of GOP nominees have adopted...

September 1, 2010, 10:35 AM

September 1, 2010, 9:05 AM

On Tuesday night, President Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the second time in his presidency. In his first year, the President was criticized for overexposing himself, but he has, to his credit, treated the Resolute Desk as a commodity to be used sparingly and only to impart gravity...

August 30, 2010, 12:18 PM

The Democratic Party has a lot of ground to cover before November. With many incumbent Democrats in states with venerable Democratic traditions, the DSCC is forced to spread itself out farther than it may like to in a midterm year...

August 27, 2010, 1:20 PM

For months, the news for Democrats on the domestic front has been mostly bad. The merits of the sweeping reforms that Democrats engaged in are not resonating with the public. As the midterm elections edge closer, the polls indicate a historic repudiation of Democratic politicians at the polls. The allure of success abroad is tempting for the Obama Administration, starved for an unarguable policy triumph...

August 25, 2010, 12:59 PM

As a barometer of the national mood, Florida has a lot to offer. A large and diverse state, dotted with small and large media markets across widely divergent geography and population dynamics, Florida is an electoral microcosm of the nation...

August 24, 2010, 1:43 PM

If you were told in the summer of 2008 that, in two years time, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain would utter the words, “I never considered myself a maverick,” would you have believed it?

August 23, 2010, 1:53 PM

What the press has taken to calling “silly season” has arrived in force. August, usually a slow month with most newsmakers on vacation, is often dominated by a single news story that, in retrospect, does not add much substance to the national debate. That story comes and goes and, after a month or so, is usually considered a distraction from the more important issues...

August 20, 2010, 2:31 PM

This week, the National Republican Campaign Committee committed to $22 million in television ad buys for a purely offensive push in 40 competitive U.S. House races across the country. Here is a breakdown of those races by district...

August 19, 2010, 2:05 PM

This week, the National Republican Campaign Committee committed to $22 million in television ad buys for a purely offensive push in 40 competitive U.S. House races across the country. Here is a breakdown of those races by district...