When all its candidates for statewide office lost in last fall's election, most by large margins, it was easy to presume that the California Republican Party was left with no "bench," no corps of promising potential future candidates from which to draw in future votes. But the conventional wisdom may be wrong on this count, as it often is. For California's political system is in for a major shakeup in the next two years. That's partly because the new congressional and legislative district lines to be drawn by a citizens commission are likely to throw many current officeholders into new and competitive districts, often with two or three incumbents forced to compete against each other.
WASHINGTON - The new Republican Party chairman's celebration may be short-lived. From the get-go, Reince Priebus, who comes to the post from leading the Wisconsin GOP, faces a ton of tough tasks in the wake of Michael Steele's troubled tenure.
BY OFFERING up their joint recommendation for balancing the budget, the co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's fiscal commission didn't solve our deficit problem once and for all, or clear a path through the political thickets facing would-be budget cutters. But Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson performed a valuable public service nonetheless: The reaction to their proposals demonstrated that when it comes to addressing the long-term challenges facing this country, Democrats, too, can play the party of no. Last week's media coverage sometimes made it sound as if Bowles and Simpson were taking the same amount of fire from left and right. But the reaction from GOP lawmakers and the conservative intelligentsia was muted, respectful and often favorable; the right- wing griping mostly came fr...
HAMILTON -- There's a new party in Butler County. The Butler County Libertarian Party filed its bylaws with the county board of elections last week. The small party is seeking members and anticipates to have a strong presence come the 2012 election year.
Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo took his campaign for governor to Harlem's 125th Street subway station Monday, and for good reason. Shaking hands with commuters in the capital of New York City's African-American community ranks as a priority in the face of a new minor party that feels Democrats and Republicans have taken minorities for granted.
Who is running the Justice Department? WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit on March 9, 2011, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain records detailing contacts between DOJ and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over a voter intimidation lawsuit filed against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Kristen Clark, a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, reportedly met with representatives from DOJ to discuss the lawsuit just prior to DOJ's decision to drop the case.
It's amazing!" alternate delegate Joanne Morrissey tells SFR via cell phone from the convention floor on Labor Day. "There's a huge screen with the red, white and blue of the American flag flying right in front of us. There are the ubiquitous balloons that are always at conventions above our heads. All you can see are people with smiling faces and McCain-Palin buttons. People are being interviewed all over the place. It's just a very exciting time. "I was wondering what's good about being a 'swing state,'" delegate Barbara Damron of Santa Fe tells SFR. "And-by George!-we're just right up front!" "We're a nation that is so blessed with a mixture of people and if you look at the breakdown between men and women, there's a heck of a lot of women and we do outnumber the men," Morrissey say...
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