In North Carolina’s gubernatorial race, Republicans wanted to take on the incumbent. For months, Gov. Bev Perdue (D) struggled to gain any traction and GOP strategists saw the Tar Heel State as a ripe takeover opportunity. Now that the governor announced she wouldn’t seek a second term,…
More than two months after the race for the Republican nomination began in Iowa, the contest remains stuck. That’s both good and bad news for the leader in the Republican race.
No one in the GOP contest is able to overtake Mitt Romney, but the former Massachusetts governor seems incapable of…
Republican cartographers guaranteed that one incumbent would lose in Tuesday’s primaries in Ohio when they drew two Democratic Members into the same district. But few people expected Republicans to lose one of their own.
In the 9th District, Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur handily defeated her…
There is no single “right” way to handicap a race.
You can evaluate where the race is at a particular moment and “rate” what you see. Or, after noting the candidates’ current standing, you can make an informed projection about how the race will play out, changing your rating if and when events…
Has the Republican race reached a tipping point, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney re-establishing himself as the solid favorite for the Republican nomination and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) slipping awfully close to the “long shot” category?…
Latinos are growing into a powerful voting bloc, but there is the real possibility that the U.S. Senate won’t have any additional Hispanics next year.
Last year, a handful of Latinos had an opportunity to get elected and join Florida’s Marco Rubio and New Jersey’s Bob Menendez as the only…
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