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Obama heads to Maine to campaign for Democrat running for governor
President Obama, who hopes to boost the fortunes of Democratic gubernatorial candidates in some states he carried in 2012, traveled to Maine on Thursday for Mike Michaud, who...
Voting fraud frenzy threatens a core American liberty
Voting fraud is an issue that has generated a great deal of heat and very little light on the right. Fox News host Megyn Kelly recently had to backtrack from her report that voters in Colorado were being allowed to print out ballots at home and admit...
Republicans use scandal in fight for Ron Calderon's Senate seat
Even with indicted lawmaker Ronald S. Calderon unable to seek reelection, the scandal enveloping the Democratic state senator has rubbed off on the campaign to replace him. The candidates, former Democratic Assemblyman Tony Mendoza and...
In Georgia's U.S. Senate race, it's all about ... race
In the final stretch of one of the nation's most competitive Senate contests, the politics of race ? always present in this Southern capital ? are dominating the campaign. Long, festive lines of mostly African American voters...
Alaska incumbent Sen. Mark Begich avoids even saying 'Obama'
The simple question is at the top of many minds this grumpy election season, even among the 1,000 or so high school students gathered for a televised debate: "How will you work to reach across partisan lines to accomplish real goals?" Incumbent...
Calif. voters among those getting mailers in controversial political study
An unconventional voter guide -- part of a controversial political science study that caused an uproar in Montana -- also hit the mailboxes of nearly 150,000 Californians last week. The mailers, which were sent out in two congressional...
In Wisconsin campaign, Obama is asked to preach only to the choir
If there is a place in America where President Obama can guarantee a warm welcome, it should be this city's North Division High School, a polling place for a largely African American precinct. In the last two presidential elections, Obama's two GOP...
Kashkari works up a sweat, but is fighting long odds in governor race
SAN DIEGO ? After GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wrapped up his pitch to about two dozen young conservatives on the patio of a wing-and-beer joint, attorney Kerry Schlossberg had a question. The 29-year-old said she found the...
Leader or bully? Ebola response gives Chris Christie new attention
The threat of Ebola has resurrected the key question on which pivots New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?s political future: Is he a strong leader or a bully? The first could ease his way in the 2016 presidential contest he is widely...
Few Latinos 'angry' over Obama immigration policy, but support slips
Only a small minority of Latino voters report that they are ?angry? over President Obama?s decision this year to delay executive action on immigration reform, but disappointment over his deportation policies is widespread, and...
Science, politics face off in grudge match over Ebola rules
Confused by the ins and outs of how the governors of New York and New Jersey are coping with the Ebola crisis? Relax, there is an answer, but in this midterm election year, it appears that politics is trumping science. As German social...
Jonah Goldberg and the GOP's Harry Reid obsession
Times columnist Jonah Goldberg swings his rhetorical hammer Tuesday at congressional dysfunction, arguing that polarization wasn't as big a problem as politicians' eagerness for self-protection.
Rick Perry seeks Ronald Reagan mantle 50 years after iconic speech
Past and potentially future presidential candidate Rick Perry grasped for the mantle of Ronald Reagan on Monday with a scathing denunciation of President Obama that asserted the Democrat was so lacking in competence his tenure would usher in a new...
Key races may hinge on what voters distrust more: Obama or Congress
Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes brought in a couple of aging rock stars last week to boost her bid to unseat Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell. One was Jon Bauman, better known as Bowzer from the '50s-nostalgia band Sha Na Na, who sprinkled in...
The new world of voter suppression
A week from Tuesday, voters will choose an entirely new House of Representatives, a third of the U.S. Senate and the governors of 36 states. Lamentably, many qualified voters will stay home, some out of apathy or disillusionment but others because they...
Brown, Kashkari campaigns test two connected theories
California likes to think of itself as the originator and arbiter of all things meaningful. In the low-intensity November election, the cutting-edge quotient has been hard to find. Especially when it comes to the marquee race. One candidate for...
In key election states, conservative groups build a ground game
For much of her 17 years as a financial planner, Molly Vogt never imagined she'd become a political activist. But she was outraged by the financial crisis, launching an economy-focused women's group called "My Purse Politics" and ultimately taking a...
Views diverge in race for Inland Empire's 31st Congressional District
In many close election contests, candidates run to the middle. Not Paul Chabot. The Republican military veteran vying for a congressional seat in an increasingly Democratic Inland Empire district is trumpeting his conservative views. He is...
Republicans hold lead in tight race for Senate control
Republicans hold a narrow, but steady, lead in the contest for control of the Senate, according to polls released Sunday. Enough races remain extremely close that Democrats could still keep control of the chamber, but only if all the breaks...
Democrats' hope of Senate supermajority could rest with 2 districts
The Democrats' quest to regain their supermajority in the state Senate could be decided next month in an ethnically diverse section of Orange County and a large swath of farmland and rural towns about 300 miles away in the Central Valley. Those...
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