Oct 26 Washington Post: Candidate Spending May Exceed $2 Billion By David Chalian For Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., ice cream might be inexpensive, but he and other candidates are on pace to exceed $2 billion in campaign spending this election. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. A lot of attention has been paid this… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch GOP Leads Among Independents, Poll Says According to a new poll released by Politico and George Washington University, independent voters are more likely to vote for Republicans than Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections by at least 14 percentage points. NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian discusses… Continue watching
Oct 25 New Diversity Districts Appear Safe for Democrats, at Least for Now By Victoria Edwards Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., speaks during a DNC news conference in July; Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call via Getty Images If Democrats are looking for safety this year, they have it in the New Diversity districts that dot… Continue reading
Oct 25 The Morning Line: Independents Poised to Swing to GOP in 2010, Poll Shows For all the talk this election season about tea parties and the enthusiasm gap among partisans, Republicans are poised to make big gains in next week's elections thanks in large part to support from independent voters who have… Continue reading
Oct 22 The Doubleheader: Shields, Brooks on Anita Hill's Voicemail and NFL Tackling By Hari Sreenivasan Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the newsroom for yet another edition of The Doubleheader. We talked about Anita Hill and the latest developments in a saga that began, oh so many… Continue reading
Oct 22 Largely Overlooked Nationally, N.C. Senate Race Offers Voters Clear Choices Political reporters are like Willie Sutton in at least one respect: legend had it that he said he robbed banks because that's where the money is (he actually didn't say that); we gravitate to the most competitive political… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch U.S. Offers New $2 Billion Aid Package for Pakistan Amid recent tensions between the two nations, the United States announced $2 billion in military and security aid to Pakistan Friday on the final day of strategic talks . The move was designed to smooth relations with the U.S.'s strategic… Continue watching
Oct 22 New WikiLeaks Cache Reveals More on Iraqi War Deaths, Detainee Abuse Analysis of a new cache of secret documents pertaining to the Iraq war surfaced Friday via the WikiLeaks website. Nearly 400,000 documents were obtained by the WikiLeaks organization and provided to several media organizations, including The New York Times,… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch In Ohio, Job Losses May Sway Election Choices As campaigning enters the home stretch before Election Day, job losses and the economy remain dominant issues in races across the country -- especially in the former manufacturing powerhouse of northeastern Ohio. Special correspondent Betsy Stark reports on one of… Continue watching
Oct 22 NPR's Firing of Juan Williams Reignites Ethics, Public Media Funding Debates NPR's firing of Juan Williams this week for remarks about Muslims on Fox News has spawned numerous side discussions among journalists, commentators and politicians about media ethics, views of Muslims in the U.S. and… Continue reading