New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had a good week. Tuesday brought his easy re-election to a second term, leading to more talk about his enhanced place in the Republican 2016 presidential pecking order. But Tuesday night’s numbers may not tell us as much about Mr. Christie’s 2016 possibilities as some […] Read more »
Republicans need to pay attention to this poll on gay marriage in South Carolina
There’s a fascinating new poll number out of South Carolina that tells you everything you need to know about where the politics of same-sex marriage in the country are headed and why Republicans need to be very careful with how they handle the issue in the coming years. The number […] Read more »
Republican senators Graham and McConnell should win their primaries
Many pundits like to think of the Republican primary voter as one who craves orthodoxy. Any Republican politician who doesn’t toe the conservative line can be eliminated in a primary quicker than a dog will bury a bone. Thus come the obvious primary challenges to senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky […] Read more »
The Deep South and Medicaid Expansion
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid so that it can provide health insurance to a larger pool of low income uninsured adults, including adults with no children and whose incomes are below about $16,000 a year. … In the Deep South states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South […] Read more »
Sanford Joins ‘The Underachievers’
In winning his special election victory on Tuesday night, incoming Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) joined a dubious but sizable bipartisan House caucus: The Underachievers. … Sanford is in the club because he won about 54% of the vote in the special election, but Mitt Romney won about 58% in the district […] Read more »
Mark Sanford’s political redemption
When he left office two years ago, it seemed unlikely that Mark Sanford’s future would hold another successful bid for elected office. Since 2009, when the former governor of South Carolina admitted that his absences from the state to allegedly hike the Appalachian Trail were, in fact, trips to Argentina […] Read more »