AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Jan 20 2014
News
GOP Poised to Retake Senate as Disillusioned Democrats Depart
Several congressional retirements and a number of vulnerable Democrats seeking re-election may give the Republicans a clear shot at regaining the Senate in this year's November elections.
"There's trouble in paradise for Democrats," Bradley Blakeman, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, told Newsmax in an interview. "Incumbent Democrats don’t like their chances in 2014.
Newsmax (News)Aug 21 2016
News
Democratic Donors Step Up Efforts on Senate, Clinton Bids
Democratic mega-donors, including George Soros and Tom Steyer, are putting millions of dollars into efforts to put Hillary Clinton in the White House and win control of the Senate. Their investment comes as Republicans worry about not only the chances of their nominee Donald Trump, but also his effect on down-ballot races.
Yet few of the GOP's biggest donors have put major money into
New York Times (News)Oct 15 2014
News
Americans' growing boredom with the 2014 midterms, in one chart
Normally, you'd expect people to grow more interested in elections as they draw nearer: the media starts covering them more, ads become more frequent, voters have to start thinking about their choices if they're undecided, and so forth. But 2014 is not most elections. Even for a midterm election, people aren't paying a lot of attention.
The stakes are real. This year's Senate results
VoxAug 10 2013
News
Debating Obamacare Strategy: Defund or Delay?
You'll recall that I spelled out my thoughts on this question in some detail last week, and yesterday I appeared on Fox News with the great Monica Crowley to debate my conclusion. Monica adheres to the school of thought that defunding Obamacare through the looming temporary budget scrap is the last chance Republicans have to stop the law. I disagree, arguing that forcing a government
TownhallNov 14 2015
News
Some See Attacks by Donald Trump as Start of His Downfall
First he compared Ben Carson to a “child molester” in a nationally televised interview. Then, at a campaign rally in Iowa, Donald J. Trump asked for someone to come try to stab him in the abdomen, twisting his own belt buckle as if to prove that Mr. Carson’s account of having knifed a friend, as a wild-tempered youth, had to have been a lie.
In the same speech — a 95-minute rant in Fort
New York Times (News)May 17 2015
News
Marco Rubio takes digs at Hillary Clinton on ‘constant scandal,’ age
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday said that voters will reject Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton because of the “cloud of constant scandal” she brings to the political process.
“Unfortunately, both under her husband’s presidency, her time in the Department of State, her campaign for the president last time and even now there seems to be this cloud of
Washington TimesJan 29 2016
News
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Clash Harshly, Filling Void on G.O.P. Debate Stage
The Republican presidential candidates competed vigorously to fill the vacuum created by Donald J. Trump’s boycott of Thursday night’s debate, with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida trading ferocious attacks on immigration and taking fire from rivals seeking advantage in the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
Mr. Cruz and Mr. Rubio, who are behind Mr. Trump in the Iowa
New York Times (News)Oct 26 2012
News
Obama struggles to be a strong voice for women; Romney gains support
With a poll showing his once-sizable lead among female voters is gone, a raspy-voiced President Obama rallied supporters Thursday in three battleground states, warning repeatedly that Republican rival Mitt Romney would roll back womens rights and repeal the health care benefits theyve been given under his signature health care law.
Washington TimesAug 16 2015
News
Trump says he’s willing to spend $1 billion on campaign
Donald Trump is willing to fork over a billion bucks if that’s what it takes to win the White House.
After the TV star and business mogul blew in via his private helicopter Saturday afternoon, he answered a battery of questions from the 100 or so reporters awaiting him at a softball field near the Iowa State Fair.
One question: Is he willing to spend a billion on his campaign,
USA TODAYAug 03 2013
News
House GOP's parting gift: Subpoenas
On their way out of town for the August recess, House Republicans had a parting gift for President Barack Obama - subpoenas. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), issued a subpoena on Friday to the Treasury Department for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, including any
Politico