Republican hopes for attracting more Hispanic voters suffered another setback on Friday when the House passed a bill to effectively end President Obama’s program to defer deportations of undocumented children. Yet the vote is unlikely to deal a severe blow to the party’s chances in November’s midterm elections. Hispanic voters […] Read more »
74% of Voters Say Congress Has Been Unproductive
Nearly three-quarters of voters say that the United States Congress has been unproductive this year, including 50 percent who say it’s been very unproductive, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
Obama’s role in fall midterms: Walk a fine line
… Obama is not welcome in many states with competitive Senate races. He has never been welcome in most of them, not in 2008 when he was the aspirational candidate and not in 2012 when the country was deeply polarized around his presidency. Embattled incumbents will run with that weight […] Read more »
How House Republicans Sabotage Their Presidential Candidates
House Republicans’ bill to undo one of President Obama’s immigrant protection programs will never become law. But it could still cause the GOP trouble in the next presidential election. … After the 2012 elections, Republicans declared with great urgency that the party must broaden its appeal to women and racial […] Read more »
Foreign Crises Fade on Congressional Campaign Trail
Crises in Gaza, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine have dominated the news this summer and even grabbed the attention of many Americans who are usually indifferent to international affairs. Yet the events might as well be in a parallel universe for all the notice they are getting in this year’s congressional […] Read more »
The Lessons of 2010
In real estate, the three most important things are said to be “location, location, and location.” In politics, it might well be “timing, timing, and timing.” As we approach the 2014 midterm elections, the Senate’s Democratic majority is teetering on the edge, but the House is just an afterthought, with […] Read more »