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Rand Paul has a double-digit lead over his primary opponent in the race for the GOP Senate nomination in Kentucky. As the Politico notes, “A win by Paul, a Bowling Green ophthalmologist, would represent the first true electoral success of the tea party movement,” which has adopted Rand as a leader. The neoconservatives [...]
He’s up 42 to 27 percent over Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the race for the Bluegrass State’s GOP Senate nomination, Jim Antle reports. In the Democratic race, Lieutenant Governor Dan Mongiardo has an equally commanding lead over Attorney General Jack Conway, 45 to 27 percent, according to SurveyUSA.
Read Kelley Vlahos’s profile of [...]
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The antiwar ex-congressman is outpolling former Sen. Dan Coats in match-ups against the likely Democratic nominees for retiring Sen. Evan Bayh’s U.S. Senate seat (which had once been Coats’s seat).
Here are the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 numbers. Hostettler runs at 40 percent against Brad Ellsworth (36 percent) and 42 percent against Baron Hill (36 [...]
In a very surprising announcement, Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh says he has decided not to run for re-election. Polls had him ahead of both major Republican contenders, former Sen. Dan Coats and former Rep. John Hostettler. Will Bayh’s retreat lure Rep. Mike Pence into the race? The seat looks like a Republican pickup now.
Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.
Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be [...]
Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s approval ratings have reached Bush-like depths, according to numbers from Public Policy Polling:
81% of Democrats now disapprove of Lieberman’s job performance with only 14% approving, and he’s not real popular with Republicans who disapprove of him by a 48/39 margin or with independents who do so by a 61/32 spread either. [...]
Liberal blogger Nate Silver believes it’s good news for the former Alaska governor that not a single one of 109 GOP “party leaders, political professionals and pundits” surveyed by National Journal thinks she’ll be the party’s 2012 nominee. He thinks this will reinforce what he calls the “victimization complex of Palin and her supporters” and [...]
The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
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