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