Matt Vespa Democrats are using the tragic shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this month to mobilize black voters ahead of the midterm elections. It could impact the races in Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas, where black voters represent a significant part of the electorate. African-Americans represent thirty percent of eligible voters […] Continue reading → 
Although it is still early, it is starting to appear that Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton are the frontrunners for their respective party’s nomination to run for President in 2016. Hillary tends to lead most polls about potential candidates, mostly due to name recognition, but Rand Paul is only slightly behind, and actually beats her […] Continue reading → 
Allahpundit, Now we know for sure that he doesn’t read Vox. I don’t know whether to take this as a sign that O’s having second thoughts about a mega-amnesty or if it’s just lip service he’s paying to enumerated powers as he gears up to rewrite America’s immigration law, but the seeds of the counterargument […] Continue reading → 
Five things to know about Thursday’s primary elections and other ballot issues in Tennessee: ___ 1. RACES TO WATCH The U.S. Senate primary has brought some of the sharpest duels. Tea party-backed candidate Joe Carr is seeking to upset Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who appears to have a clear edge but certainly cannot ignore the […] Continue reading → 
Jackie Gingrich Cushman Georgia’s U.S. Senate race between Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue, it will all boil down to turnout — who turns out to vote. While the Republican candidates are being fair when they tie the Democratic nominee to the Obama administration, they must do more than hope that Democrats can’t persuade […] Continue reading → 
Predicting the effect of debate performances on political races is always tricky, but there aren’t too many observers who doubt that Republican Ed Gillespie handily won the first debate against incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Warner in Virginia this weekend. Warner is currently ahead by 10 points in the polls, which isn’t an overwhelming lead for […] Continue reading → 
Allahpundit, I’m honestly surprised. I knew most Republican pols would disagree with her simply because of the politics involved, but I thought there’d be a few tea partiers in the House who sided with her on principle. As it is, unless I’ve missed something, not a single member of Congress is willing to say that […] Continue reading → 
Jazz Shaw, Say, do you remember Wendy Davis… the Texas state senator who performed a filibuster while wearing pink sneakers, immediately becoming a Democrat national icon? Well if you do you’re apparently in the minority. After that jackrabbit quick start on a run for governor in the Lone Star state, recent reports indicate that her […] Continue reading → 
Hillary Clinton could become the first female President of the United States. That reality alone has been the primary driver of Hillary’s political existence. She rode her husbands coattails all the way to the US Senate. She ran in New York, of course, because the long-time Arkansan would be given a clear path to victory […] Continue reading → 
Michael Barone The 2016 presidential election is shaping up as another close race, like the last four. From 2000 to 2012, both major parties’ nominees received between 45 and 53 percent of the vote. Historically, that’s a narrow range, not seen since 1880-1892. It suggests something close to parity between two highly competitive parties. Polls […] Continue reading → 
Ukrainians were set to give a resounding endorsement to the overthrow of their last elected leader by voting on Sunday for presidential candidates promising close ties with the West in defiance of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. But the absence of over 15 percent of the electorate, in Russian-annexed Crimea and two eastern regions where fighting with […] Continue reading → 
Pro-Russian insurgents have prevented at least half of the election districts in the embattled east of the country to prepare for Sunday’s presidential election, a Ukrainian official says. Volodymyr Hrinyak, chief of the public security department at the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said Saturday that 17 out of 34 district election commissions in the Donetsk and […] Continue reading → 
Voters in six states will choose candidates on Tuesday for some of November’s top congressional election races, including another round of crucial U.S. Senate primaries between the Republican establishment and Tea Party favorites in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon. Tea Party candidates are fighting an uphill battle in all three U.S. Senate contests, which could be […] Continue reading → 
The national media continue to tout Georgia’s soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat as one of just a few “swing” states that could end up going Democrat in a year that otherwise seems to look great for the GOP nationally. And the current outlook for the May 20 Georgia contest might tell us a great deal not […] Continue reading → 
To avoid upsetting her husband, Urmila Devi told him she’ll heed his request to pick India’s ruling Congress party when their 50-family village votes this week. Once inside the polling booth, she plans to ignore him. “I’ll vote for a different party,” Devi, 26, said on May 1 outside her one-room house in Galanodhan Purwa […] Continue reading → 
2016 Polls Show No GOP Frontrunner In less than two years, Republicans will likely know who the Republican nominee for President is. Democrats seem fine with Hillary Clinton. Minus a surprise challenger or a decision by her to not run, the primary for them is seemingly decided. But on the Republican side it’s hard to […] Continue reading →