By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 18, 2013, 12:02 p.m.
Last year, Rep. Brian P. Bilbray lost re-election in California’s redrawn 52nd District, but GOP strategists are upbeat about their chances of taking it back just two years later.
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 18, 2013, 12:01 p.m.
It may look as if Democrats are seeking a creative new way to fumble away California’s 31st District, but they aren’t in as bad a shape as it might seem.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| June 18, 2013, 6:03 a.m.
Minutes after Gabriel Gomez was declared the winner of his party’s special primary on the evening of April 30, I tweeted that Gomez’s victory assured that the Massachusetts Senate special election would be “interesting.” And it has been.
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 14, 2013, 1:12 p.m.
Open seats are supposed to be opportunities. Without longtime incumbents on the ballot, these districts should be easier to takeover. But six months into the 2014 cycle, that just isn’t the case on the House side.
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 12, 2013, 6:02 a.m.
Election Day is still more than a year away, but Illinois Republican Bruce Rauner is already deploying a popular campaign weapon: the barn jacket.
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 10, 2013, 2:01 p.m.
Just the name, Stewart Mills III, sounds like a stereotypical Republican, but the shoulder-length hair is evidence that he might be a different type of GOP candidate.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| June 10, 2013, 11:56 a.m.
Is the nation suffering from a national case of hypochondria, or are Americans rightly worried about the country’s future?
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 7, 2013, 6:02 a.m.
A cattle rancher and a university president get into a Senate race. Sounds like the opening of a bad joke, but it could describe the new political terrain in Nebraska.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| June 6, 2013, 2:34 p.m.
Republican strategists who monitor media activity in Massachusetts say the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has purchased TV time, starting tomorrow, to help Rep. Edward J. Markey in the special election for Senate.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| June 5, 2013, 1:15 p.m.
Politics is a rough-and-tumble business, with campaigns bringing whatever resources they can to the table. But are there limits to what consultants, particularly pollsters, should do for their clients?
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 5, 2013, 6:01 a.m.
Rep. Gary G. Miller, R-Calif., is one of Democrats’ top takeover targets in the House. But to hold his seat, GOP strategists might consider finding another Republican to run against him.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| June 3, 2013, 3:01 p.m.
Democratic prospects of taking back the House in 2014 may be remote, but two Democratic congressional challengers I interviewed recently have the potential to knock off GOP incumbents next year. At the very least, their races are worth watching.
By
Nathan L. Gonzales
| June 2, 2013, 6 p.m.
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee completed his trip across the partisan spectrum when the now-governor of Rhode Island officially switched to the Democratic Party.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| May 30, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
That’s the next to the last paragraph in a very fine story written by Roll Call political reporter Emily Cahn about GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann’s retirement from Minnesota’s 6th District.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| May 30, 2013, 5:04 a.m.
Republican strategists both associated with and independent of GOP nominee Gabriel Gomez’s campaign are growing increasingly frustrated by what they see as the unwillingness of establishment donors and conservative activists to get fully behind the candidacy of the first-time candidate for Massachusetts Senate.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| May 28, 2013, 5:03 a.m.
Former Nebraska Treasurer Shane Osborn is likely to announce his candidacy for the Senate within the next few days, according to usually reliable GOP insiders.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| May 24, 2013, 6:02 a.m.
The National Republican Congressional Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each blasted the other side after a near party-line vote on the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, which passed the House on Thursday, 221-198.
