GOP Head Into Midterms
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Poll: GOP Leads in Midterm Races as Obamacare Drags Down Democrats
Republicans are in the lead in the most competitive House and Senate races for the 2014 midterm elections, a reflection of President Barack Obama's low job approval rating and disenchantment with Obamacare, a new poll has found.
In a poll by Politico conducted May 2-13 of 867 likely voters, 41 percent of respondents said they would choose a Republican compared to 34 percent who said they would choose a Democrat.
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McConnell, Other Republicans Lead Primary Challengers From the Right
A much-anticipated conservative revolt against incumbent Republicans never fully materialized here in Kentucky, allowing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to build a commanding position ahead of Tuesday's GOP primary by fully embracing his role as a Washington power broker.
A McConnell victory over Louisville businessman Matt Bevin, which is considered likely, would send a resounding signal to Republicans elsewhere that incumbency and deal-making are no longer the millstones many conservatives claimed them to be as the tea party gained strength in recent years.
Tuesday's primary here in Kentucky, along with...
From the Left
GOP’s insane Georgia primary: Why party’s establishment will never be the same
Where oh where does the spring-long whirlybird tour of “Tea Party vs. establishment false primary narratives” land this week?
The drama long ago ran out in Kentucky’s once-hyped race between Sen. Mitch McConnell and businessman Matt Bevin, the latter of whom will remembered in political comedy history for attending a cockfighting rally and giving a speech about cockfighting and then saying afterwards that he had no idea he was at a cockfighting rally.
What a truly resounding, who’da-guessed-it win for the establishment: The well-funded minority leader of the United States...
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