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Bill Clinton factor: Can he tip Senate race to topple McConnell?Bill Clinton's campaign swing in Kentucky aims to give a boost to Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is slipping in the polls in a key Senate race.
Why political 'corruption' is goodHonest efforts to rein in backroom deals and money in politics have had unintended consequences, making governing harder and empowering the political extremes.
Tables turning on GOP, social issues now benefiting DemocratsOnce upon a time, Republicans would use social issues like gay marriage and abortion to drive voter turnout and attack Democrats. But that dynamic is shifting.
Tuesday's primaries offer important lessons in Republican civil warThe tea party failed to beat the vulnerable Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, but it did fend off an establishment challenge against two influential House members. The big takeaway: candidate quality matters.
Hillary Clinton surprise stop on 'Colbert': Will book tour never end?The inventive Stephen Colbert made the Hillary Clinton stop-by more than a boring recitation of difficult foreign policy choices. He began by 'criticizing' her new book as 600-plus pages of name-dropping.
Video of undocumented immigrant cornering Rep. Steve King is amazingAn undocumented immigrant who was brought to the US as a child and qualifies for Obama's deferred deportation program confronted immigration hardliner Rep. Steve King. The video highlights a key point of the illegal immigration debate.
Where Rand Paul's small-government credo fails: kids with autismSen. Rand Paul says 'politicians get in the way of most answers.' But autism provides a compelling counterpoint. The federal government provides the vast majority of research money as well as crucial services and legal protections.
House Republicans dooming 2016 nominee with Latino votersHouse Republicans' hard line on immigration certainly plays well to the base, but it points to potentially significant problems ahead for the 2016 presidential election.
Tea party set to lose its final two battles in Kansas and TennesseeIn all likelihood, tea party candidates will not win their primaries in Kansas and Tennessee, meaning establishment Republicans will have beaten every tea party challenger for the Senate. But that doesn't mean the tea party is going away.
Bush on Bush, and the best presidential memoir never writtenGeorge W. Bush's forthcoming memoir on his father should be worth a read, but the best memoir by a former president skipped his presidential years.
No, the Senate did not block the House border bills – yetThere's a report that the Senate has already blocked the House border bills, passed on Friday, from going anywhere. That time may come, but it hasn't yet.
Rand Paul escapes trap set by immigration activists. But what about 2016?Pro-immigration activists tried to embarrass a hardline tea party Republican eating lunch with Sen. Rand Paul Monday. Senator Paul fled the scene quickly. As a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2016, he's in a tough spot on immigration.
Most US voters now dislike own congressmen. Will they vote them out?When it comes to public confidence in US institutions, Congress has had the bottom of the barrel to itself for years. But, curiously, Americans haven't said they wanted to get rid of their own member of Congress – until now.
What's President Obama's cousin doing on the Kansas ballot?Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts (R) faces an unusual challenger in Tuesday's GOP primary: a distant cousin of President Obama's. Here's how they're related.
Here's what the 'do-nothing' Congress actually did do – and whyA few things have been accomplished since January, even though this Congress is the least productive in two decades, according to a Pew analysis.
- Five-year-old Minnesota mayor loses re-election to 16-year old
Robert "Bobby" Tufts, age 5, lost his bid for a third consecutive term as mayor of Dorset on Sunday. Eric Mueller, a 16-year-old won. The population of Dorset, Minn.: as many as 28 people.
Why the Latino vote matters in 2014 midterms: immigrationIn the battle for control of the US Senate, only one key state in 2014 has a significant Latino population. But the midterms are a dress rehearsal for 2016, and both parties see immigration as a defining issue for their voters.
Immigration legislation explains why nothing gets done in D.C.The Senate's failure to pass a border bill and the House's fumbling efforts to pass its own speak to how many different people can 'veto' legislation in American politics. That's nothing new, but the tea party insurgency has added a new levels of complexity.
House passes border bill, Senate doesn't. So why does House get the blame?All the attention this week was on House Republicans' stuttering – but ultimately successful – attempts to pass a bill to address the border crisis. Yet the Senate failed to pass anything.
Why Eric Cantor is stepping down earlyEric Cantor's early retirement came as almost as much of a surprise as the former majority leader's stunning upset in this year's GOP primary. But there are advantages to leaving early.
