Ken Rudin The polls have made it clear that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is in serious trouble in his bid for re-election next year. An incumbent governor going down to defeat is not exactly unusual in this country, but it certainly is in the Keystone State. But Corbett has not made things easy for himself, comparing same-sex …
There is always the tendency to over-interpret election results, especially in a cycle where very little is at stake. The few statewide races that appear on the ballot the year after a presidential contest – as is the case this year – get exaggerated coverage for that very reason. But sometimes the results are seen as …
Well, the website for the Affordable Care Act may be in shambles, but theScuttleButton website is alive and well. Which is, in the words of John Kerry, good news and bad news. 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 …
This week’s Washington Post poll showing Terry McAuliffe with a 51-39 percent lead over Ken Cuccinelli for governor in Virginia is not just good news for the Democrats and bad for the Tea Party. It’s also about to end a streak that goes back to 1977. In every Virginia gubernatorial election these past 36 years, the winner has been from the party …
If there was one lesson learned that came out of the congressional battle over the shutdown, it was that Democrats were united and Republicans were not. We’ve already discussed the GOP divisions in detail. Democrats, vulnerable or not, Red State or Blue State, all stuck together. But now there may be some cracks. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a conservative …
Remember James Watson? Back in the day, he was a Republican senator from Indiana. In 1926, in a bid for a full second term, he survived his re-election bid by the barest of margins. Six years later, in 1932, a disastrous year for the national economy and the GOP, Watson lost his seat in a landslide. …
It’s been four months since ScuttleButton, America’s favorite waste-of-time exercise, left the confines of NPR.org. Since then, and perhaps because of it, America has witnessed some incredible changes, such as the breakup of Bruce and Kris Jenner. Well, your worries are over. ScuttleButton is back … in a brand new Political Junkie web site, no less. How to …
There haven’t been too many good days for John Boehner since the 2012 elections that kept him in the position as speaker of the House. In fact, the headaches were evident last January, during the balloting for speaker itself. Ten Republicans refused to vote for Boehner, who won a second term by only three votes. He had more defections than Newt …