Getting into a contest with President Obama over who is a better friend of business is not the winner some might think. The water will get very muddy very quickly if Romney campaigns on who is business' BFF, especially when you consider that one of the things Romney did at Bain Capital was take businesses apart.

NASCAR is a daredevil sport. It's all about risk-taking and nerve. Not unlike President Bush's Iraq policy, and his tax cuts and his plans to remake Medicare and Social Security.

Every election year, some pollster discovers a new constituency that supposedly is the key to victory; this year it's"NASCAR dads."

As Virginia is becoming less Republican, Mark Warner has a good chance of winning a Senate seat for the Democrats.

The solitary atmosphere of the Supreme Court runs counter to Clarence Thomas's sociable nature.

In Traffic, Ted Vanderbilt explains why cars isolate us from social contact, converting us into ego machines.

For all the talk about independents and tea parties, the defining characteristic of this election is the revolt of the white working class, which may determine the outcome of the Senate election in West Virginia.

Whole blocs of "little guys"--ethnics, rural residents, evangelicals, cops, construction workers, and military veterans--have recently become Republican supporters.