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The dog days of summer? Not when there are Senate and House primaries to predict, as well as an opportunity to share your wisdom on the Political Junkie podcast! After Tuesday, August 5 — where there are contests in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington — there are ten more states holding primaries this month. And …
If you’re Sarah Palin, it makes sense to talk about impeaching President Obama. First, she may really believe in it, but let’s not discount the thought that it could also probably help her in winning subscribers to her new on-line TV channel (only $9.95 per month, or $99 a year, depending on how many months …
One thing that’s clear the moment you step foot in Alaska is that President Obama is not an especially popular guy. Turn on the TV and there are commercials — nonstop, considering the high-stakes Senate race this year and the primary coming up on Aug. 19 — telling us which candidates will unhesitatingly stand up …
In the calculations for Republicans to take control of the Senate in November, Alaska was always expected to play an outsized role. And why not? It’s a state that President Obama lost by 14 points. Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, won his seat in 2008 by the barest of margins, even though his opponent, veteran …
The death of legendary “top 40” radio personality Casey Kasem last week is the peg for this week’s Political Junkie column: The top 40 House races of 2014. We still have a ways to go before we know the nominees for all the key contests. And so this list will be updated several times before …
If you ask the tea party/conservative right, it’s clear where the fault lies for the 2012 presidential election results. Mitt Romney. Romney, the GOP nominee, ran a respectable race against President Obama, losing by five million votes out of 126 million cast — 51-47%. But, aside from North Carolina, Romney lost every swing state thought …
Here’s another opportunity not only to win one of our coveted Political Junkie buttons but to be heard on next week’s Political Junkie podcast! Seven states are holding primaries on Tuesday, June 24, including that crucial runoff in Mississippi. It’s important, I guess, who wins and who loses. But more important is that YOU CAN …
On behalf of Ken and Team PJ, I’m excited to announce that we have officially launched our all-new website for Ken Rudin’s Political Junkie! We have been working very hard for the past few months to get this new website together, featuring a fresh new look for the show, and a dramatically-improved navigation and layout …
One thing we learned this week is that it’s not easy to defeat a House majority leader in a primary. Before David Brat took out Eric Cantor on Tuesday, it hasn’t happened since … well, ever. But it has been becoming more commonplace lately to defeat Republican senators in a primary. It happened twice in …
Rewarding as it is to find campaign buttons we’ve long been seeking, it can get frustrating to come across items for candidates we’ve never heard of. How do we identify who they are? And when we see a “Smith for Congress” or a “Jones for Senator” button, well, how do we know which Smith or …