You'll probably get it just as you're sitting down to dinner: a telephone call extolling the virtues of President Obama's health care plan being derailed by Republicans like Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions. The automated and live calls beginning today are...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday he's optimistic about Republicans' chances in the 2010 elections. As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, he's charged with helping craft his party's strategy going into the next election cycle. Republicans will...
Here's a story I just posted on Tyler Republican Rep. Leo Berman's recent discussions with the Rick Perry campaign about abandoning a long-shot, anti-immigration bid for governor. Berman (at right, in photo of voter ID bill hearing) says he expects...
Seldom does one go to a baseball game and hear a heckler shout, "Go back to the agriculture committee!" but Wednesday night's 48th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park was no ordinary ballgame, where Democrats broke their...
The thesis isn't new, but journalist John Farrell offers a fresh analysis of the numbers that suggests Texas is a big-state electoral nightmare in the making for Republicans. With or without harsh GOP rhetoric over immigration to drive Latinos to...
The national script for the Rick Perry-Kay Bailey Hutchison battle royale is pretty well set -- it represents no less than the future direction of the Republican Party. Wayne Slater examined that here, and we'll have a lot more to...
A new poll says the race to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Senate has no clear frontrunner. Hutchison is challenging fellow Republican Rick Perry for governor next year. And the field is forming among those who would like to...
State Rep. Chuck Hopson says he's home free. Hopson, D-Jacksonville, says he was notified by Speaker Tom Craddick's office this afternoon that his November opponent, Republican Brian Walker, has withdrawn his election contest. "We are pleased that this election has...
In Miami at the Republican Governor's Association, Sarah Palin held her first national press conference. About 100 reporters gathered. The bank of TV camera were two-deep on the risers. And -- drumroll please -- it lasted three questions and about...
Irving City Councilman Bob Romano, who in the latest count is trailing incumbent GOP state Rep. Linda Harper-Brown by 20 votes, says he intends to ask for a recount of ballots in the tight House District 105 race. Here's the...
Maybe Barney was a little snippy about the Republicans losing big in Tuesday's election (notice he has a red leash). Or he's not happy to be leaving the White House and heading back to Dallas. Whatever it was, President...
As results trickle in from the Rocky Mountain states, the West Coast and Alaska, Democrats seem to be making gains in those areas. President-elect Barack Obama won the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, due, in part, to his...
As results trickle in from the Rocky Mountain states, the West Coast and Alaska, Democrats seem to be making gains in those areas. President-elect Barack Obama won the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, due, in part, to his...
Though all of the Texas Republicans running for statewide office were being held below 55 percent, they were still winning tonight. And that made Austin's Four Seasons Hotel perhaps the happiest spot on the planet for a demoralized elephant. "It's...
Democrats in six competitive races in Illinois were expected to benefit from hometown Sen. Barack Obama's presence on the ballot. In the 10th Congressional District, which includes the northern suburbs of Chicago, Republican Rep. Mark Kirk leads Democratic challenger Dan...
Here are the results from the House races in swing-state Ohio: In the 1st District, which includes Cincinnati, Republican Rep. Steve Chabot trails Democratic challenger Steve Driehaus, the state House minority whip, 43 percent to 57 percent, with less than...
Things are looking good for Democrats in at least two races in the state of Florida. In the 8th District, which includes Orlando and its exurbs, Republican Rep. Ric Keller is trailing his Democratic challenger, Alan Grayson, 47 percent to...
Some early congressional races in Indiana and Kentucky may indicate how Democrats and Republicans are doing nationwide. In Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District, which includes Louisville and its suburbs, Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth faced former Rep. Anne Northup in a rematch...
More House races from back east, with early numbers seeming favorable to Democrats: In Virginia's 5th District, with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Republican Rep. Virgil Goode is a little more than 1800 votes behind Democratic challenger Tom Perriello, a...
Nearly two years after the first candidates entered the presidential race and 10 long months after the Iowa caucuses, Election Day has arrived. Will it be Barack Obama by a lot or a little? Or will John McCain prove the...
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