We're about to enter a very long campaign in which where an apparently squeaky clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile, Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.

Nothing excites the base of the Democratic Party—or gets more free media—than wildly implausible hysterics over racism, even when there's so little evidence to support the claim.

Senator Olympia Snowe's dwindling support reflects the growing influence of the Tea Party in the Maine GOP and her constituents' desire for a more conservative candidate.

Whoever is in power to draw new district lines will shape congressional majorities in the next decade.

Voters in the eight largest states are supporting candidates in the gubernatorial races that favor smaller government and limiting spending.

Even with few questions on the nation’s fiscal position and foreign policy, most of the Republican candidates performed pretty well. If that’s the way the Republican primary voters and caucusgoers see things, the result may be to tighten the race for the nomination.

Whyhave we seena decline in the number of governors in the Senate?

Detroit lost 25% of its population in a single decade--a decline second only to hurricane-devastated New Orleans.