With Republicans slated to vote next Tuesday on Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal to end the practice of members requesting earmarks in the Senate, Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, tells me that the group’s local chapters will be paying very close attention.
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From the perspective of many conservatives, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is doing himself and Republicans a lot of harm by fighting Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal to ban requests for earmarks among Republicans in next year’s Senate. The first reason, writes RedState’s Erick Erickson, has to do with last More…
Despite widespread public opposition to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and multiple exhortations by the president for Congress to act, Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster to pass the DISCLOSE Act, a bill requiring interest groups to name the donors behind their campaign ads, 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…
If the GOP had just run Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware, Sue Lowden in Nevada and Jane Norton in Colorado, they’d be looking at an evenly split Senate right now. At least that’s the message that establishment Republicans, frustrated with the Tea Party and its Senate cheerleader, Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), More…
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has released a crack report today called “Outside Job: Winning Candidate Enjoyed Advantage in Unregulated Third-Party Spending in 58 of 74 Party-Shifting Contests,” which attempts to make sense of what role, if any, new forms of outside money played in yesterday’s election. Measuring More…
Fresh from his victory in Nevada and operating on little sleep, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear on a conference call this afternoon that Democrats are willing to compromise with their Republican colleagues — and expect the same attitude from the GOP.
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When most East Coasters could no longer follow the returns from sheer exhaustion, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had fallen behind challenger Ken Buck (R) in his Senate race, and the momentum was not leaning his way. By morning, however, he’s regained a narrow lead in the polls: With 87 percent More…
Pundits may differ over which natural disaster analogy was most fitting — tidal wave or earthquake? — but Republicans made large gains in both chambers of Congress and various statehouses across the country on election day. And while, at the time of writing, races in several key Western states were More…
Pollsters are revising their estimates up for the number of seats that Democrats will lose in the House, but in the Senate Dems look like they’re sitting pretty. With Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) locking down their victories, Democrats can now breathe easy about their More…
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