Politics Nov 05 Breaking down the 2014 Republican wave Last night was a huge night for Republicans. They took back the Senate, netting seven seats (so far); they could get up to 250 House seats when all the vote counting is completed, which would be the most seats for…
Politics Nov 04 Your election night cheat sheet Tune into the PBS NewsHour tonight for more than seven hours of live election coverage. You also can download our 2014 PBS Election Briefing Book and learn about which states' political parties spent the most in campaign ads in Tuesday's…
Politics Nov 03 Morning Line’s final Top 10 Senate races Over the weekend, a rash of polls were released -- all pointing to a Republican edge. There are still some key questions for Election Night. One big one -- will it end on Election Night? Republicans need to net six…
Politics Oct 31 Forget 2014, everyone wants to talk about 2016 already The presidential election has begun already, right? We are still four days from voting happening Tuesday to decide these much poured-over midterm elections. And yet, there are a slew of headlines already about the next presidential election.
Politics Oct 30 The six bellwether counties of 2014 Some of us can’t wait for Election Night. Instead of pundit talk, we get actual raw vote. There’s a lot to keep track of, especially for what to watch in the race for the Senate. There are several counties to…
Economy Oct 29 Federal Reserve ends six years of quantitative easing After six years, the Federal Reserve announced the final drawdown of its bonding-buying program known as quantitative easing, or QE, at the end of its two-day policy meeting Wednesday.
Politics Oct 29 President Obama knows where he’s not welcome President Obama largely has been missing from the campaign trail during this 2014 campaign. And the places where this campaign is playing out, where the most competitive Senate races are, are in states he lost by double-digits during the 2012…
Politics Oct 28 A week out, here are the most competitive Senate races We’ve written a lot about the top takeovers, with Republicans needing to net six seats to take control of the U.S. Senate. But what about the closest races? And a lot of them are close. Of the 36 states where…
Nation Oct 27 When refinancing helps the poor, and everyone else Economists know that lower income households most commonly refinance their mortgages and tap that equity when home values rise. But a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that when those households have extra cash on hand,…
Politics Oct 27 Watch the most memorable political ads of 2014 More than $1 billion has been spent in this campaign on TV ads. There were several that stood out this year for different reasons — from the issues they brought up to the, sometimes strange, attempts at getting attention. We…