High-Risk Primaries Could Cost Republicans in 2014
The impending retirement of Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa creates the opportunity for Republicans to pick up a seat that Democrats have held since 1985. But if they aren’t careful in selecting their...
View ArticleThere’s an Actual Tea Party vs. Establishment Matchup in Mississippi
It’s primary day again! Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota are all holding elections Tuesday. But of those, the Republican primary for U.S. Senate...
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The Eric Cantor Upset: What Happened?
In a shocker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District to a relatively unknown college professor, David Brat. Brat spent little money...
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Population Shifts Had Nothing to Do With Cantor’s Defeat
I warned you to be suspicious of novel theories about the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in his Republican primary last week. It probably had something to do with Cantor’s identification...
View ArticleA Conservative Showdown in Oklahoma
There’s another round of primaries Tuesday, and most of the attention will focus on Mississippi’s Republican Senate runoff (which we’ll look at in later story). But there are a number of other...
View ArticleHistory Really Was on Cochran’s Side in the Mississippi Runoff
Political junkies analyzing Sen. Thad Cochran’s triumph in Mississippi’s GOP primary runoff can learn many lessons about the state of politics today. Those lessons include how the Mississippi result...
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The Polls Were Wrong in Georgia’s Senate Runoff, But Don’t Blame Turnout
To say that the public polls missed the mark Tuesday night in Georgia’s runoff election would be an understatement. The four public surveys conducted in July had Jack Kingston leading David Perdue by...
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