Shira Toeplitz
Bio:
Shira Toeplitz covers redistricting and political campaigns for Roll Call.
Toeplitz has worked in Washington as a political reporter and writer since 2005. She was formerly a staff writer for Politico and for National Journal’s the Hotline, where she covered campaigns from Alaska to New Hampshire and almost everything in between.
During her tenure at Roll Call, Shira was the first national reporter to interview Sen. Al Franken after his election and the last to do an extended interview with Sarah Palin before she was selected as the GOP vice-presidential pick.
A frequent guest on cable news programs, Shira has offered commentary on politics and campaigns for ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and FOX. She has been a featured speaker at her alma mater, Northwestern University, as well as at American University and the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.
Shira hails from Pittsburgh and is an avid Steelers fan. She currently lives in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood.
Stories by Shira Toeplitz:
May 19, 2012
If Mitt Romney wins the presidency, J.T. Jezierski will be the most connected man in the 16 blocks between the White House and Capitol Hill.
May 18, 2012
A federal court will take up the new Kansas Congressional map May 29, while the Republican-controlled state House will make a last-ditch effort to rescue the mapmaking process.
May 17, 2012
National conservatives have officially set their target on a rare contested primary for North Dakota’s open House seat.
May 16, 2012
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will not seek a House seat in Washington state this year after losing a primary to a fellow Democratic Member in March.
May 16, 2012
Crossroads GPS will launch a massive $25 million issue ad campaign on Thursday to run for the next four weeks, kicking off its largest buy this year in these 10 targeted states.
May 15, 2012
Rep. Tim Walberg (R) will not have a top challenger for his re-election race this November, leaving Democrats with a major recruitment hole in the Michigan map.
May 9, 2012
Kansas lawmakers are hours away from their deadline without a new Congressional map in sight, virtually assuring a court will take over the process for the first time in history.
May 9, 2012
The first meeting between Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock and the Club for Growth was a disaster — so it wasn’t necessarily a given that the organization would end up investing $1.7 million and playing such a pivotal role in the conservative challenger’s GOP primary victory over six-term Sen. Dick Lugar.
May 9, 2012
Since Richard Mourdock’s resounding victory Tuesday, Rep. Joe Donnelly and his fellow Democrats have been bullish about their prospects for putting the Indiana Senate seat in play. But Republicans balk at the idea, pointing out that no Democrat not named Bayh has won a Senate seat in Indiana since 1970.
May 8, 2012
Updated 10:13 p.m.| Luke Messer, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, won the crowded primary for Rep. Mike Pence’s (R) eastern Indiana seat.
May 8, 2012
Dick Lugar spent almost his entire Senate career trying to make the world safer from the specter of nuclear war. But as it turned out on Tuesday night, Indiana Republicans weren’t motivated to vote for the longtime statesman’s foreign policy bona fides, and he lost his party’s nomination to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock by about 20 points.
May 8, 2012
Updated 9:06 p.m. | Sen. Dick Lugar was defeated in a blowout in Indiana’s Republican primary on Tuesday, capping a 36-year Congressional career punctuated by foreign affairs accomplishments and potentially putting the Senate seat in play for Democrats.
May 7, 2012
Local GOP leaders selected four candidates to vie for the nomination on May 19 to replace retiring Rep. Timothy Johnson on the GOP ballot.
May 7, 2012
Sen. Dick Lugar’s uphill re-election battle is the marquee race on the GOP ballot today in Indiana, where primary voters are headed to the polls to decide the six-term Senator’s political fate.
May 4, 2012
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) trailed his primary opponent by 10 points in a new independent poll released today.
May 3, 2012
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) reached a new milestone in his recovery today, when his family announced that the first-term Senator would move home to continue his recuperation from a January stroke.
May 2, 2012
House Democrats have purchased a total of $473,000 in ad time for the June 12 special election for Arizona’s 8th district, a committee official confirmed to Roll Call today.
May 2, 2012
Barely a week after the Pennsylvania primary, the National Republican Congressional Committee kicked off the 12th district general election with an advertisement blasting Rep. Mark Critz (D).
April 30, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — In the age of modern campaigns, Sen. Dick Lugar’s political obituary could have been avoided.
April 27, 2012
Updated | 5:41 p.m. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin threw her support behind Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s (R) bid to unseat six-term Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) today.
April 26, 2012
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Outside groups have made almost $3.5 million in independent expenditures so far in the competitive Indiana GOP Senate primary, according to online data from the Federal Election Commission.
April 26, 2012
It’s the one call that attorney Matt Cartwright, theDemocratic nominee in Pennsylvania’s 17th district as of this week, wished his cell phone would have picked up. Instead, Vice President Joseph Biden had to leave his fellow Scrantonian a voice mail Wednesday.
April 25, 2012
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called them “orphan districts” — Congressional races in states without a marquee contest at the top of the ticket, including the presidential race. There are a lot of them this cycle.
April 25, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said no one should ever turn down an offer for the vice presidential nomination,which is why he hopes no one ever asks him to join the national ticket.
April 25, 2012
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s new TV spot targets Sen. Dick Lugar’s longevity in Congress, with less than two weeks before the GOP primary.
