A lot of pundits have drawn comparisons between the current midterm election cycle and the GOP wave year of 1994, but the University of Minnesota’s politics blog argues that an equally apt comparison could be made with the year 1934:
While self-identified Republicans may enjoy an enthusiasm gap over
From CNN:
Lincoln Chafee Monday will formally announce his bid for Rhode Island governor Monday.
In the wake of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) defection from the Republican Party, another prominent GOP moderate is expressing doubts that the party has a future on its current tack to the right. Writing in The New York Times today, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) argues that “the political environment More…
As the GOP loses the Senate seat held by Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who announced today that he’s switching allegiances to the Democrats, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island says the party has no one to blame but itself.
“The ramifications are huge,” Chafee said of Specter’s exodus More…
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