Several polls show that in the last week, incumbent Republican Senator Conrad Burns is closing the comfortable gap held for weeks by Montana Senate President Jon Tester. "The latest Rasmussen ... Read More

Six-term Congresswoman Barbara Cubin (R-WY) has a long history of controversial comments. Her mean-spirited arrogance richly symbolizes much that is clearly unacceptable about 2006 Republican candidates for Congress. In 2003 on ... Read More

We now know Karl Rove's "October Surprise": Money. Cold cash. Last-minute, Executive-directed greenback pork. Damn the issues. Where fear and oodles of smear didn't work, Karl and George ... Read More

What's not to love about a senatorial candidate, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who plainly declares: "I support rolling back the tax reductions that went to America's wealthiest individuals. I ... Read More

I say HOORAY that a handful of conservative celebrities have taped a political ad opposing embryonic stem cell research. No, I most certainly haven't changed my mind about the humanitarian ... Read More

It's official! Senator Barack Obama MUST be running for president in 2008... because yesterday, a well-connected bellwether of ultra-conservative thought has declared the senator "The Most Dangerous ... Read More

Maybe it's due to my family's generations-long love of the great American west, but my favorite political ad of the 2006 election season is this one HERE for ... Read More

Pat Tillman would've been 30 years old on November 6, 2006. But Pat died in 2004. Inspired by the President's call for patriot-soldiers to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, he ... Read More

"You have to separate the marketing from the reality. The reality is, these members are not homophobic. For the most part, they're using this marketing to play to our base ... Read More

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper's political blog yesterday: "Demonstrably False Claims" "Expect fireworks this afternoon as Sherrod Brown's campaign for U.S. Senate blasts the Republican National Committee and Sen. Mike ... Read More

"While Jim Webb and others of George Felix Allen Jr.'s generation were fighting for our freedoms and for our symbols of freedom in Vietnam, George Felix Allen Jr. was playing ... Read More

A plethora of unusually excellent and interesting political books have been published in recent months. In fact, I have a stack here of almost a dozen books to read and ... Read More

"Democratic polling numbers are simply extraordinary. We need to win six Republican held seats to take back the Senate and we have a real chance to win as many as ... Read More

I received a status report email this morning from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reporting the great news that Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. leads religious right Republican incumbent ... Read More

Below are links to recent articles by my About.com colleagues that I highly recommend. So much good writing is done here at About.com, and yet, there's so little time... From ... Read More

To the surprise of many political observers, former Virginia Governor Mark Warner announced today that he will not be a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for the presidency. At ... Read More

President Bush must have an unconscious defeat wish for Congressional Republicans in next month's mid-term elections Today, 4 weeks before Americans elect the new 110th Congress, Army officials, who answer ... Read More

I receive campaign emails daily from Democratic leaders and candidates, especially during election season. Senator Barack Obama doesn't send many such emails, and when he does, they're usually exquisitely diplomatic. ... Read More

Small waves of anxious, unspoken doubt knot my stomach each time I read a poll or article predicting an unstoppable Democratic tsumani in the November 2006 mid-term elections. Maybe it's ... Read More

"The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check ... Read More

"This is NOT how a serious Administration would approach the problem of terrorism," thundered Senator Barack Obama last week on the floor of the US Senate, after it passed Bush ... Read More

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize winner "This president has surrounded himself with ... Read More

Incredibly, I've received emails, and heard conservative cable news pundits, comparing the Mark Foley-underage Congressional page scandal with Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky fiasco. Listen up, conservatives, in case you're actually ... Read More

"What I see going on in Washington is just a deterioration of that American dream, a middle class crunch... Tuition at the University of Minnesota up 81 percent, healthcare costs ... Read More

Seems like every headline lately makes me more satisfied and grateful to be a Democrat. But even I was astonished this past week by the depth of depravity of the ... Read More