Palin-Backed Candidate Leading Senator Murkowski in Alaska
Joe Miller, a political unknown supported by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, is leading Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary by 3 points. With 84 percent of precincts reporting,...
View ArticleTea Party Candidates Threaten GOP Prospects
Today is primary day in several states across the nation. Among them are two highly important Senate primaries in Delaware and New Hampshire. Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell led the more...
View ArticleTea Party Candidate Leads in New Hampshire
Early results out of New Hampshire are shaping up well for the Tea Party: Lamontagne – 52.9% (5,584) Ayotte – 31.7% (3,346) Binnie – 7.7% (814) Bender – 6.6% (694) Lamare – 0.7% (76) 5% of precincts...
View ArticleDelaware and New Hampshire GOP Senate Primary Results
9:10 p.m. (9/15): Lamontagne has conceded the race for the GOP’s Senate nomination. In other news from yesterday’s primaries, a new poll out of Delaware shows that Democrat Chris Coons leads Republican...
View ArticleJohn Thune Passes Up Presidential Bid
Senator John Thune of South Dakota declared on Tuesday that he would not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2012. The “rising star” in the Republican Party, as he is often called,...
View ArticleThings Turn Negative in South Carolina
After a moderately tame primary season things are starting to heat up. Newt Gingrich decided to not go negative in Iowa after being nuked with vicious ads from Mitt Romney paid for with secret donors....
View ArticleMitt Romney Wins Florida, But Will Lose the South
Mitt Romney’s win tonight doesn’t say much about what will happen in the rest of the South. North Florida went for Gingrich and is more in line with places like Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. This...
View ArticleRecapping the GOP Primary
New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann has a great piece this week on the GOP primary race thus far. He writes about the rightward drift of the Republican Party, the struggles that “front-runner” Mitt...
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Rick Santorum’s Path to the Nomination
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum accomplished two important wins in the Deep South on Tuesday – one in Alabama and the other in Mississippi – that denied front-runner Mitt Romney the...
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Dick Lugar Falls to Tea Party Challenger
The state of Indiana has lost a statesman today. Voters went to the polls to unseat incumbent Senator Dick Lugar, who has served in the Senate since 1977, in a low-turnout primary where fewer than 20...
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