Freshman Rep. Mark Critz (D) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught in Pennsylvania, a tidal wave that swept out five of his Democratic colleagues from the state’s House delegation, flipped a U.S. Senate seat and handed full control of the state government to the GOP. Critz, who took the seat More…
Lawmakers from at least 25 states have pledged to pass copycat laws to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. There are a number of reasons these plans might not succeed — other legislators might want to focus on economic concerns, or might be deterred by the Justice Department’s lawsuit More…
Haunted by memories of the 2008 Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, Minnesota is bracing for yet another contentious recount, this time to determine the state’s next governor.
Just as the drawn-out recount in 2008 had national implications — for months, Franken was prevented from becoming the More…
Mark Kirk, the Republican senator-elect from Illinois, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 29 due to special circumstances regarding his seat, which used to belong to President Obama but was handed over to Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) when Obama took office. Kirk will serve in the More…
I’ve been covering anonymous campaign spending and concerns about the possibility of voter fraud or vote suppression in the lead-up to the midterm elections for quite some time, but what percentage of Americans have been listening? It turns out the number, according to a new Pew Research Center Poll, More…
As the dust settles from Tuesday’s midterm elections, Latino and immigrant rights groups that worked to register Latinos and newly naturalized citizens to vote this year said they are now looking at how they can influence the elections in 2012. Their central message: Latinos, already the largest and fastest-growing minority More…
With write-in ballots — the vast majority of which are presumed to be for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) — garnering nearly 41 percent of the vote in Alaska’s Senate race, compared to 34.3 percent for Republican nominee Joe Miller, why are both sides lawyering up in anticipation of the More…
Exit polls indicate that jobs and the economy were the top issues on the minds of voters on Tuesday when they trotted off to the polls. While climate change and energy issues played a role in a number of campaigns — with environmentalists running advertisements in key districts criticizing Republican More…
A quick dive into Arizona state politics: State Sen. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, was selected as president of the Arizona Senate Wednesday after Republicans gained super-majorities in the state House and Senate in the elections. The new title will make Pearce even more powerful — More…
Republicans may have won the House, but immigrant advocacy groups are quick to point out that the party was fairly unpopular among Latinos, who helped Democrats win in major races in California, Colorado and Nevada. The Pew Hispanic Center released a report last night on Latino More…
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