For some reason, Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul never gets called the “frontrunner” in that race. Secretary of State Trey Grayson, seen as the favorite of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), still receives that title. But it’s another day and another poll — this one from Magellan Strategies — More…
Former congressman John Kasich, running for governor of Ohio after a solid decade of local Republican pols begging him to make the plunge, is seen as one of the party’s best candidates in a blue state. At CPAC, 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell beamed with confidence when I asked More…
The new Public Policy Polling numbers on the Texas gubernatorial primary have first-time candidate Debra Medina surging against Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), from nowhere to 24 percent support.
Medina is clearly riding the wave of discontent with the Republican establishment. Among primary voters
His son Rand’s campaign for Senate in Kentucky is going better than anyone could have expected — every Kentuckian I met at the National Tea Party Convention backed him — but Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is drawing three primary opponents for his own re-election bid. Ironically, all three More…
Democrats have dodged a bullet in Illinois after Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who concealed a history of drug use and domestic violence until after he won the primary for lieutenant governor, dropped his bid. The Sun-Times story on his withdrawal — which happened at a Super Bowl party More…
NASHVILLE — The author and Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan — one of very few African-Americans present at the National Tea Party Convention — used a short dinner speech to basically announce a bid against Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.). “I can’t announce it now,” she said, but on Monday, More…
Ryan Frazier, one of the crop of strong African-American Republican candidates I spoke to for this piece, out-fundraised Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) in the final quarter of 2009. According to Federal Election Commission reports, Frazier–who switched from a Senate run to a House bid late last year — More…
Foes of Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) are pouncing on this interview, in which host Jimmy Cefalo gives the governor a chance to distance himself from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) — an early endorser of Marco Rubio, Crist’s primary opponent — and Crist whiffs. But it’s not as bad as More…
The new Quinnipiac Poll has Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican who’s ridden a wave of good press in his Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.), surging into the lead. Powered by a big lead with self-identified “conservatives,” Rubio leads Crist by three points. The trendlines, since October: More…
Before Ryan Hecker presented the Contract from America to his Sunday night audience — 63 activists huddled inside of a meeting room in the Washington, D.C. office of FreedomWorks — the free-market think tank’s spokesman promised great things.
“You watch,” Adam Brandon told TWI. “This is the idea that’s going More…
rss