With the reelection victory of Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss in a special election last week, hopes that Democrats would command a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the upper chamber next year were dashed.
The number 60 has attracted enormous attention because it represents the votes required to defeat a filibuster More…
While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the conservative establishment prefer the introspective equivalent of placing their hands over their ears and yelling, “LA LA LA LA LA More…
While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama — particularly on Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers — McCain may be driving away moderates and independents in doing so.
William Milliken, More…
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