Democrats have been saying for a long time that the House could be in play in 2012, and now some Republicans are starting to join them.
“For Democrats to take 25 seats, they will need a wave,” former congressman Tom Davis wrote in an op-ed in The Hill recently. “Continued polarization and obstruction could create such a wave.”
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While Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad has become a political football, an actual campaign ad aired during the game is also causing controversy.
Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (R) aired his first campaign ad of the cycle Sunday night, and Asian-American groups are crying foul.
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Forget dieting dogs and Ferris Bueller — or Mario Manningham’s clutch catch for that matter. As far as Washington was concerned, the biggest moment in last night’s Super Bowl was that Clint Eastwood ad touting Chrysler.
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There was one perfect candidate in the GOP presidential race, says Michele Bachmann.
And that candidate was Michele Bachmann.
The Minnesota congresswoman, who dropped her White House bid after placing sixth in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, told Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt in an interview that aired over the weekend that GOP primary voters had their chance, but they missed it.
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Four years ago, Mitt Romney swept Minnesota’s GOP caucuses with 41 percent to Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 22 percent.
Will the former Massachusetts governor win just as handily when Minnesota votes tomorrow?
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A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.
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More than a third of the advertising tied to the presidential race has been funded by nonprofit groups that will never have to reveal their donors, suggesting that a significant portion of the 2012 elections will be wrapped in a vast cloak of secrecy.
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It’s a family affair.
Last month, Jon Huntsman’s post-campaign plans began to come into clearer focus when the Huntsman Cancer Foundation announced that the former Utah governor and ambassador to China would succeed his father, Jon Huntsman Sr., to become the organization’s new chairman.
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LAS VEGAS — Rick Santorum is starting to receive the Newt Gingrich treatment.
With polls showing Santorum the more serious threat in two states voting on Tuesday, Minnesota and Missouri, Mitt Romney’s campaign on Monday unloaded on the former Pennsylvania senator the way it did on Gingrich in the run-up to last month’s Florida primary.
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