Education has a long tradition of bipartisanship in Washington, but a look at the upcoming midterm elections suggests that the odds that education bipartisanship will maintain its vaunted status in 2011 are looking bleak.

How reliable are poll forecasts a year before an election?

The Democrats' shellacking in the midterms doesn't mean that Obama will lose in 2012.

Ronald Reagan signed the legislation making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday in November 1983. In January that year, public opinion was divided, with 47 percent in favor of the holiday and 48 percent opposed in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. In an October 1983 Harris poll, however, 59 percent supported it.

A conservative establishment is useless if it doesn't bring the nation with it. The frustration on the right stems from the fact that none of the candidates seems up to that task.

Many political analysts may try to draw conclusions about this year's midterm elections but it is difficult to assert any great political truths based on midterm contests.

Should Republicans stoke the populist flames of their base or reach out more broadly, with a softer touch, to moderates and independents?

The best things the GOP has going for it is that despite all its disappointments, the Democrats actually pull off being worse.