News Source: Seattle Times
| 14 days ago
Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's...
News Source: Napa Valley Register
| 15 days ago
Ed Rogers, White House staffer to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush: The biggest losers were Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A big portion of the Democratic congressional caucus just became a lot more nervous and...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 15 days ago
Published: November 4, 2009 Tuesday’s vote particularly the election of Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia has produced heated predictions about the revived power of Republican social conservatism and the declining fortunes of...
News Source: The Nation
| 15 days ago
It is certainly fair to search for signals in the results of off-year elections, and that goes double for off-year elections held at so volatile a moment as this...Races for mayoralties and governorships tend to fit the "all politics are local"...
News Source: Napa Valley Register
| 16 days ago
Politicians, pundits and partisans are still debating whether Tuesday’s gubernatorial massacre of Democratic candidates in Virginia and New Jersey was a backlash against President Barack Obama’s governance or not. The GOP, itself a tattered group...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 16 days ago
Even before voters went to the polls this week, moderate congressional Democrats were anxious. Would the swing voters who coalesced around Barack Obama almost exactly one year ago stay with the Democrats or defect to the Republicans? The answer came...