... doubt” that McDaniel’s voters will show up again, so he stressed that Cochran needs to expand the field of voters he’s appealing to, like teachers “who may not typically vote in Republican primaries.” People around Cochran will do so by reminding voters that McDaniel said he would be ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — New laws requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls were enforced in two Southern primaries on Tuesday, but with mixed results. In Alabama, there were few hitches, but the count in a U.S. Senate race in Mississippi was slowed by provisional ballots cast by ...
... announcing Tuesday that 9,800 troops would remain in Afghanistan through 2014, be halved in 2015, and completely out, save an embassy security force, in 2016, Mr. Obama declared it was “time to turn the page after a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on ...
... that is, of course, that many of those Blue Dogs were targeted in 2010 by Republicans because they were in conservative districts -- not because of primaries like on the Republican side.) Brookings has a great interactive on how things have changed in Congress since just before the Civil War. And ...
... a campaign from the right against Cornyn without strong tea party support. Roll Call’s David Hawkings writes that the real takeaway from the Texas primaries shouldn’t be about the GOP; it will be about Democratic turnout and how soon the state will turn purple. LINE ITEMS McClatchy reports ...
... results of two major off-year gubernatorial contests are still giving the political parties plenty of food for thought ahead of midterm elections and the 2016 race for the White House. With Democratic Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe forging ahead to craft his transition team in Virginia -- with several Republicans at ...
Terry McAuliffe supporters in Tysons Corner, Va., cheer after he is declared the winner of the governor's race Tuesday night. Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe will become the next governor of Virginia, the coda to a campaign marked by nastiness from the start...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images House Democrats are getting a debrief on the health care law Wednesday, following a series of problems with the rollout of an insurance exchange website and as the GOP steps up its criticism in the aftermath of a shutdown fueled by the...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, easily defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn in the latest contest where President Donald Trump sought to oust an incumbent he saw as insufficiently loyal.
Louisiana Republicans will nominate a candidate for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff Saturday, six weeks after denying Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy a shot at a third term.
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