Politics

One big Republican win in Massachusetts is already doing wonders for party recruitment.

Since Republican Scott Brown shocked the political establishment and picked up Ted Kennedy’s old seat, a slew of other leading Republican recruits from friendlier GOP confines are having second thoughts about running for the Senate.

The latest newcomer is...

Here’s the breakdown of Scott Brown’s victory, by Congressional district, from the Boston Globe.

The most striking statistic: Brown ran evenly with Martha Coakley in Barney Frank’s liberal Congressional district outside Boston, according to early estimates.

That result should send shivers down many House Democrats who represent seemingly safe seats...

The latest poll numbers coming out of Arkansas paint a dire political picture for Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who looks like the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection this year.

The Mason-Dixon survey shows Lincoln losing to her leading Republican opponent, state Sen. Gilbert Baker, by 4 percentage points, 43 percent to 39...

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee was raking in the dough, it turns out, even before Scott Brown's shocking victory Tuesday in Massachusetts.

The NRSC announced that it raised $4.1 million in the month of December — its second-best monthly total of 2009 — and handily outraised the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. I The NRSC began...

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.V.) may be running for reelection, but he doesn’t have much campaign cash to spend as he faces his toughest race in decades.

Mollohan reported raising only $136,000 in the fourth fundraising quarter, and began the new year with only $65,000 in his campaign account — a total that hardly gives...

GOP businessman Steve Welch says he won't drop out of Pennsylvania's sixth congressional district race and will challenge Rep. Jim Gerlach in the Republican primary, according to PoliticsPA.

Gerlach abruptly ended his gubernatorial campaign earlier this month and re-entered the race for the district he first captured in 2002. Two other GOP candidates folded...

Per the Philadelphia Inquirer:

A new Rasmussen poll shows Republican Roy Blunt pulling ahead of Democrat Robin Carnahan in the Missouri Senate race, leading 49 to 43 percent. It’s the first time Blunt has led in the Rasmussen poll, another sign of the souring national environment for Democrats.

President Obama’s approval rating in the Show-Me State...

Former California congressman Tom Campbell, who just dropped out of the state’s governor’s race to run for Senate, now looks like the early frontrunner to take on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), according to a Field poll released today.

The  poll shows Campbell leading former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina by five points, 30 to...

Take a look at this blistering new ad against Gov. Pat Quinn (D-Ill.), accusing him of releasing a violent criminal from prison who went on to commit further crimes.

The ad is from his Democratic primary opponent, Comptroller Dan Hynes, who has been attacking the governor for his budget-cutting program giving certain convicts...

While Republicans are looking to make Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) the next Martha Coakley, the liberal California senator is showing no signs of taking her re-election for granted.

Boxer raised $1.8 million in the fourth fundraising quarter, giving her $7.2 million in the bank at the end of last year – the most she’s...

The National Republican Congressional Committee landed its favored recruit to run against Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.) today.

Businessman Richard Hanna, who won 48 percent of the vote against Arcuri in 2008, announced that he will be seeking a rematch against the second-term congressman. He announced his decision on his new campaign website...