There are few things one can take solace in when you're on the losing end of a wave election. One of the few items of comfort is in knowing that wave elections tend to create golden opportunities for the next time around.
The rationale for this is rather simple to understand. Wave elections tend...
Not to get too nerdy on you this close to the big day, but the following 68 districts have something in common:
AL-02...AZ-01...AZ-03...AZ-05...AZ-07...AR-01...AR-04...CA-11...CA-20...CA-47...CO-03...CO-04...CT-0 4...CT-05...FL-22...FL-25...GA-02...GA-08...HI-01...ID-01...IL-08...IL-14...IL-17...IN-09...KY-06... MD-01...MA-10...MI-01...MI-07...MI-09...MN-08...MS-02...MS-04...MO-04...NV-03...NH-02...NJ-03...NJ-0 6...NM-01...NM-02...NY-04...NY-19...NY-20...NY-22...NY-23...NY-24...NY-25...NC-08...ND-AL...OH-06... OH-16...OR-05...PA-07...PA-08...PA-10...PA-11...RI-01...SD-AL...TN-04...VA-02...VA-05...VA-09...WA-0 2...WA-03...WA-08...WA-09...WV-01...WI-08
All of these, without exception, is a district in which a poll was released (either public or partisan) since October 1st showing one...
Come January, fewer women will be seated in the House and Senate, the first decrease in their numbers in Congress since 1978. Most, possibly all, of those losses will be Democrats. At the same time, Blue Dog Democrats may see their coalition in the House cut by a third, or deeper, with possibly more than...
Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly has noticed a distinct deflation of Republican electoral expectations as of late:
For the last several months, congressional Republicans acted as if taking the majority of at least one chamber was practically a foregone conclusion. The question wasn't whether the House GOP would be in the...
Filed under: Emily's Post
Apparently the revelation of President Obama's secret plot to destroy Christmas was the straw that broke the camel's back, because House Republicans will no longer sit back and allow heathens (and secular humanists) to spit on the reason for the season -- meet House Resolution 951:
Whereas Christmas is a national...
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05) and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC-06) are offering a resolution disapproving of Wilson's outburst, expected on the floor right now.
Here's the text of the Wilson resolution:
RESOLUTION
Raising a question of the privileges of the House.
Whereas on September...
Little has been more encouraging over the last few days than Rep. Anthony Weiner's appearances all over cable news shows. Strong, articulate, reasonable and smart, Weiner makes a very strong case for why the public option is so critical--we don't get cost containment without it. Here he is, actually succeeding in making his point, even...
With the House over one hurdle--all three committees reporting legislation out, with Energy and Commerce bringing up the rear--the week ahead will be a little less frenetic than the one that just passed. You could call it the week of the Blue Dogs.
By doing what they do best, throwing hissy fits...
The House finished all its homework before recess, with an achievement that was messy, contentious, complicated, but at the same time historic--all three committees with jurisdiction have now passed reform legislation, E&C finishing their work last night, with minimal dissent from Blue Dogs, and of course no Republican votes.
in an unusual...
