When Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) unexpectedly announced that he planned to resign his seat in early 2013 to become president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, he set in motion an odd American political occurrence: the double-barreled Senate election. This is when there is both a Senate special […] Read more »
History Favors a 2014 GOP Comeback
It’s hard to pick up any publication or watch any television program oriented toward politics and not be reminded of the problems facing the Republican Party. … The point of all this is not to pile on Republicans (although plenty of people are doing just that these days) but to […] Read more »
2014 Senate Preview: Can Republicans Finally Turn Potential Into Reality?
… At first blush, the 2014 Senate map presents some promising opportunities for Republicans. Of the 33 seats that will be contested in November 2014, Republicans only have to defend 13 while Democrats have to defend 20. And the Republican seats … are almost entirely situated in deeply Republican states. […] Read more »
Image Problem
After back-to-back disappointing Senate elections in 2010 and 2012, Republicans (and others) are looking at 2014 and wondering not just how similar, but perhaps, how different, they could be. … Republicans will still face the same obstacles they have had to contend with in the last two cycles: first, getting […] Read more »