Politics

Republicans have landed their favored candidate to run against Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.), who the GOP recently targeted as a possible party-switcher. .

The GOP challenger is former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino, who told a Pennsylvania radio station this morning that he was definitely running and is making his official announcement...

It's hard to imagine Gov. Charlie Crist deciding to make another public appearance with President Barack Obama, after his poll numbers began to crater with Republicans not long after his infamous man-hug with the president last February.

But Obama may not have seen the last of Crist, according to the Palm Beach...

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) got his first dose of good news in a while after the Justice Department ended its lengthy investigation of his personal finances and earmarking practices.

“For nearly four years, in the face of a politically motivated assault on my character, I have continued to fight for jobs and the working...

It’s been a very good day for Marco Rubio: First, he takes the lead over Gov. Charlie Crist in a Quinnipiac poll, and now he comes within striking distance of the well-funded governor’s fundraising in the most recent quarter.

Rubio announced he raised $1.75 million in the last three months of 2009, making him...

President Barack Obama is playing a starring role in an Illinois campaign advertisement — but in a Republican attack ad against a GOP gubernatorial candidate who endorsed him in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Republican Andy McKenna is up with a devastating ad against state Sen. Kirk Dillard, featuring footage of Dillard’s glowing testimonial of Obama —...

Despite a late recruitment push from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) announced he won't be challenging Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) this year, and will instead seek re-election to the House.

Republicans have grown increasingly bullish on their chances at winning Bayh's Indiana Senate seat in light of the worsening...

Even as Democrats look down the barrel of a menacing election year that promises to dramatically cut into the size of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority, there’s one bulwark that promises to limit the losses—the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s piggy bank.

The DCCC announced it raised $3.8 million last December, capping off a successful...

Marco Rubio, who began last year as a total unknown, has pulled ahead of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in the  Florida Senate Republican primary for the first time, in a new Quinnipiac poll released today.

The poll shows Rubio leading Crist by three points, 47 to 44 percent – a lead within the...

Embattled Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced that she raised an impressive $1.3 million in the fourth quarter, and begins the new year with $5 million in her campaign account.

"This will be a tough campaign, and I am grateful for the support of so many Arkansans," Lincoln said in a statement. "After another strong...

NRCC looking to scare Spratt into retirement.

Chris Coons, considering Senate campaign against Castle.

Flashback: Castle led Coons by 12 in October.

Oscar Goodman, not running for governor.

Kos poll: Reid is toast.

Sestak goes after Harry Reid and his party’s...

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