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May 09 2024
Headline Roundup
Biden Administration to Unveil New Asylum Change
The Biden Administration is preparing to publish a new rule to more quickly reject the asylum claims of some migrants after they cross the border - targeting migrants who are considered national security risks.
Key Details: The rule, which could be published as soon as today, would allow border control officials to bar migrants from asylum within days, even hours, of them illegally
Axios
International Business Times 
Newsmax (News) 
May 03 2014
News
Inside Politics: When it comes to midterms, 'It's the economy, stupid'
The biggest worry -- and potential opportunity -- for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats this midterm election year came into full focus this past week, and it had nothing to do with the latest Obamacare numbers or newly released White House emails about Benghazi. Sure, those issues matter now and will undoubtedly factor into the final six months of Campaign 2014. But to borrow a
CNN Digital
Oct 08 2014
News
Court Decisions on Voting Rules Sow Confusion in State Races
Just weeks before elections that will decide control of the Senate and crucial governors’ races, a cascade of court rulings about voting rules, issued by judges with an increasingly partisan edge, are sowing confusion and changing voting procedures with the potential to affect outcomes in some states.
Last week, a day before voting was scheduled to begin in Ohio, the United States
New York Times (News)
Oct 06 2014
News
Harry Reid hits a new high in the eyes of Americans — in unpopularity
The leaders on Capitol Hill have long been unpopular with voters nationwide, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s favorability rating has taken a steep plunge this election year, showed a new poll released Monday.
The Gallup poll found that the favorability score for Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, dropped from 27 percent in April to 21 percent today.
“Reid’s image has consistently
Washington Times
Oct 04 2014
News
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton plans midterm blitz
Hillary Clinton has mapped out much of her political schedule through Election Day, an itinerary that focuses on helping Senate candidates and includes trips to a half-dozen states, including Kentucky and presidential early states Iowa and New Hampshire, according to details obtained by POLITICO. The plan, which could see adjustments and additions as races hit critical points in the coming
Politico
Oct 21 2013
News
John Boehner must go, say 60 percent of Americans: poll
Fully six in 10 of Americans participating in a new poll say House Speaker John Boehner should leave his post in the House. The survey, a CNN/IRC International poll conducted between Friday and Sunday, at the tail end of the government shutdown, also revealed that 54 percent of respondents aren’t happy that the GOP controls the House — a dire sign for the Republican Party, as the country
Washington Times
Aug 19 2019
Opinion
How Much Damage Have Republicans Done in the States?
Turns out making cuts to public services to fit an ideology of small government and traditionalism is just not very popular.
The 2018 election marked at least a temporary end to Republicans’ rise to power in many states. With full control of 26 states, Republicans had built a sustained opportunity to transform American subnational government.
Liberals certainly feared the worst.
Guest Writer - Left
Jul 09 2013
News
Honey, I shrunk the Obama data machine
You’ve heard the legend of the Democratic data machine: the vast apparatus constructed by dozens of analytics wizards in Chicago and funded by Barack Obama’s billion-dollar campaign that gave the president’s party a dominant edge in political intelligence last cycle. Now, heading into the 2013 and 2014 elections, Democrats face a different kind of challenge: taking the campaign tools they’ve
Politico
Jul 08 2013
News
McCain: Cut Foreign Aid to Egypt
Members of Congress are divided on what to do with Egypt's $1.5 billion in foreign aid as U.S. law requires the suspension of taxpayer funding to countries where a democratically elected government is deposed by a military coup.
Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee told "Fox News Sunday" that funding should continue, and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said he is not
Newsmax (News)
Sep 30 2014
News
What to Watch in the Third-Quarter Senate Fundraising Race
Tuesday marks the end of the third fundraising quarter—the last round of campaign-finance filings that candidate committees are required to file before their pre-election disclosures—and candidates and party committees have been furiously fundraising in recent days in an effort to give their numbers a last-minute boost.
While committees aren’t required to submit their disclosures until
Wall Street Journal (News)