As we head into Labor Day weekend, candidates’ campaigns, along with their political ads, are beginning to transform from a marathon to a sprint. Thus far the public has mainly seen issue advertisements from outside groups looking to influence the elections indirectly by harping on issues like the stimulus and More…
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) has always been a strong advocate for health care reform, but he’s getting some outsize credit from conservative groups for his role in crafting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Crossroads GPS, the conservative 501(c)4 group tied to Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, is up More…
Washington is initiating a program to help the unemployed stay in their homes: Qualified applicants will get zero-interest loans of up to $50,000 for two years to pay their mortgages while they remain jobless. But The Hill questions whether it might be banks benefiting from the More…
Most Democrats aren’t calling for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) to resign, but they’re continuing to donate the campaign contributions they received from him to charity. Yesterday, after Rangel had been charged with 13 counts of rules violations, it was Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), engaged in a tight Senate race with former More…
Amicus briefs seem to be a good way for Republican gubernatorial candidates to set themselves apart from the pack. After Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox filed an “friend-of-the-court” brief defending Arizona’s SB 1070 from its Justice Department legal challenge and urging others to join, Florida Attorney General Bill More…
Rep. Joe Sestak (D) has defeated Sen. Arlen Specter (D) for his party’s Pennsylvania Senate nomination, while the Democratic candidate won the late Rep. John Murtha’s (D) seat.
Sestak led Specter 54-46 percent in the Democratic Senate primary as of 1 p.m. Wednesday, with more than 99 percent of precincts More…
President Obama’s decision not to campaign for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) ahead of his tough primary tonight has been the subject of media chatter in the last few days. But Specter isn’t the only candidate in tonight’s primaries who has received the hands-off approach from More…
Spin it all you want, but Democrat Ted Deutch was strongly favored last night to win the race to replace Florida’s Robert Wexler. Pennsylvania’s upcoming special election, however, is already regarded by the national parties as a major 2010 battleground.
Current Federal Election Commission reports indicate that the National More…
In the final weeks of the 2008 campaign, Lt. Col. (ret.) Bill Russell got a taste of political superstardom. He’d been running against Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for a year, inspired by the congressman’s opposition to the Iraq War. In a bad year for Republicans, he’d More…
The death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) means that Congress has lost a longtime fixture and the military community has lost a prominent voice in the House, but it’s Murtha’s Pennsylvania constituents who immediately find themselves short a congressional advocate.
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