Wow. Who saw the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor coming? Certainly not Cantor. Or the nation’s political establishment. And not Greg Giroux, political reporter for Bloomberg News, who sat with Political Junkie host Ken Rudin and together they shook their heads at one of the more amazing primary upsets of recent times. We also hear from Kevin Broughton of the Tea Party Patriots …
It was the race the tea party wanted from the beginning. And while they didn’t completely accomplish their goal, they are thought to be on their way. In six-term Sen. Thad Cochran, tea party conservatives saw a politician from the old school, who spent a career fighting for earmarks and pork projects for Mississippi and who …
In most cases, we know the difference between a good president and a bad one. We re-elect the good ones and we send the bad ones packing. But how do historians see them? How does Harry Truman, for example, leave office with an anemic 23% approval rating and wind up as a “Near Great” president? And …
This week’s Political Junkie and host Ken Rudin try to answer three questions: What’s the matter with Kansas? Well, we learn that Sen. Pat Roberts, seeking a fourth term this year, may not have an actual residence in the state. But his Tea Party-backed opponent in the GOP primary, Milton Wolf, made inappropriate jokes X-ray images of gunshot victims on his …