The New York Times has a fun map showing the geography of the Wednesday rsquo s U S House vote to end the government shutdown and avoid a default on the national debt The vote was 285 to 144 in favor of the Senate plan Political scientist Jeff Weintraub via Andrew Sullivan is troubled by the hol

Democrat Cory Booker beat Republican Steve Lonegan by about 10 points yesterday to win a U S Senate seat mdash or as Slate rsquo s Dave Weigel put it ldquo America rsquo s most-hyped mayor rdquo defeated ldquo one of the most entertaining jerks in American politics rdquo With 99 percent of pr

One of the more fanciful notions to come out of Washington’s Longest Month is that the Tea Party might split off from the GOP.

Polling data underscore how conservative Americans have become in recent years.

Tuesday brings a special election for a U S Senate seat in New Jersey in which Newark Mayor Cory Booker is expected to beat Republican opponent Steve Lonegan the former state director of the conservative lobbying group Americans for Prosperity One poll last week had Booker up by 12 points anoth

In Commonweal Charles Michael Andres Clark despairs that the fierce resistance to the Affordable Care Act ldquo Obamacare rdquo to the point of shutting down the federal government is part of the American political tradition Every effort to broaden the scope of ldquo all men rdquo and promo

When the Republicans kept their majority in the U S House last November the consensus was that the party would have no trouble winning again in 2014 Almost all the freshmen who won in the GOP tidal wave of 2010 made it through their first re-election campaign often the hardest and without Bara

Only a few decades ago, it was possible for either party to win U.S. Senate and governor’s races in every state.

The federal government shutdown is entering a second week with House Speaker John Boehner refusing to hold a vote on a ldquo clean continuing resolution rdquo that would reopen the government without delaying or defunding Obamacare One of the key players in this standoff is Texas Sen Ted Cruz w

As I wrote on Wednesday the shutdown of the federal government is not helping GOP change its image as a party of old white men Whether the ldquo white rdquo part will doom it in the next presidential election is a matter of much debate though I rsquo m skeptical an all-out war on Obamacare is g