The most recent Democracy Corps Congressional Battleground survey, fielded just two days after Congress ended the government shutdown, reveals a nation angry with Washington, the country’s direction, and congressional incumbents. While voters withhold anger for no party or person in Washington, Speaker Boehner and the Republican Congress are at the […] Read more »
If the shutdown didn’t hurt Republicans now, what about the 2014 midterms?
There has been a lot of talk about the possible electoral consequences of the government shutdown. And while the 2014 midterm elections are still a year away, we have two elections in 2013 that can serve as test cases of sorts. In both the New Jersey special Senate and Virginia […] Read more »
2014 Midterms Could Decide Senate Majority for Years to Come
This is not going to be one of those columns that we read almost every other year proclaiming the next election to be the most important one since the Greeks developed the idea of democracy 2,500 or so years ago. It does, however, make the case that this election is […] Read more »
Opposing Obamacare: GOP’s defining issue
… For Republicans, opposition to Obamacare has become a defining issue, like antiwar sentiment was for Democrats during the war in Iraq. … What Republicans are trying to do is create a wave of public anger against Obamacare that will sweep the GOP into office, starting with next year’s midterm […] Read more »
A year after Romney loss, GOP woes run even deeper
A year after losing a presidential race many Republicans thought was winnable, the party arguably is in worse shape than before. The GOP is struggling to control tensions between its tea party and establishment wings and watching approval ratings sink to record lows. … Eyeing this troubling landscape, many Republican […] Read more »
Web site bugs or not, Obamacare will be a problem for swing-state Democrats in 2014
The news of the day is that the Obama administration has pledged to have the problems with HealthCare.gov fixed by the end of November, an announcement that will likely settle the nerves of many Democratic politicians regarding the potential political reverberations of the Web site not working as an election […] Read more »