Ken Rudin A special congressional election is on the horizon, in Florida’s 13th District, which has been vacant since the October death of Rep. C.W. Bill Young. At the time Young was the longest serving Republican in the House, having first been elected in 1970. But there have been some major demographic shifts in the CD in …
In using illustrations of campaign buttons to accompany these political postings, we have often come across buttons whose origins have escaped us. Thus, every now and then we’re going to post some of these unknown items, in the hope that you can identify some of them. Here’s another selection of campaign items of candidates whose …
This was the trivia question that appeared in this week’s Political Junkie show: Ed Gillespie, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is expected to announce his candidacy soon for the Senate seat currently held by Virginia Democrat Mark Warner. Who was the last former national party chair — Democrat or Republican — who …
Two more Democratic members of the House have announced their retirement in the past 24 hours: Jim Moran of Virginia and Bill Owens of upstate New York. Add them to George Miller (D-Calif.), who made his declaration on Monday, and you have three more open Democratic seats for November. Here’s a look at the trio …
He was the man of the year, winner of a landslide re-election victory, about to head up the Republican Governors Association, his name atop his party’s presidential hopefuls for 2016. We’re not even half-way through January of 2014 yet, and his apology and contrition have been plastered over every newspaper front-page in the country. Gov. …
Don’t forget what President Obama said: If you like your ScuttleButton, you can keep it. That goes for this week’s puzzle too. How to Play ScuttleButton, as you may know, is that weekly waste of time exercise where we post a vertical sequence of campaign buttons. Your job is to take one word (or concept) …
Here is Part Three of my political obituaries for the year, those who left us between September and December of 2013. (See Monday’s post for January thru April, and Tuesday’s post for May thru August.) As I said on Monday, this list doesn’t claim to be complete, but it includes many of those who made …
Don’t put up a new ScuttleButton puzzle New Year’s week, I was told. NOBODY will be on line, and NOBODY will see it. Of course, that gives YOU a better shot at winning. How to Play ScuttleButton, as you may know, is that weekly waste of time exercise where we post a vertical sequence of …
Here is Part Two of my political obituaries for the year, those who left us between May and August of 2013. (See Monday’s post for January thru April; Thursday’s will have September thru December.) As I said on Monday, this list doesn’t claim to be complete, but it includes many of those who made our …
Politically, it was a most unsettling year. No one felt it more than the president of the United States, who began with an inaugural and lofty themes, and who ended 2013 with falling polling numbers, explaining what he meant about you keeping your own insurance plan, and trying to reassure Democrats that 2014 won’t be …