Sen. J. William Fulbright, who helped to rally opposition to the war in Vietnam from his powerful perch on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was overwhelmingly defeated in a bid for a sixth consecutive term in the U.S. Senate on this day in 1974. Fulbright, […]
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, the conservative, guitar-playing Michigan congressman who briefly sought the Republican presidential nomination before withdrawing from the race last September, may suddenly find his congressional career in jeopardy. McCotter, who dropped out of the GOP presidential sweepstakes after a disastrous showing in […]
Maverick Mayor Peter F. Flaherty of Pittsburgh narrowly squeaked by Herbert S. Denenberg to win the Democratic nomination for the right to face popular Republican Sen. Richard Schweiker in the general election on this day in 1974. Campaigning as “Nobody’s Boy,” the 49-year-old Flaherty defeated […]
Harold E. Stassen, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and frequent candidate for the presidency, easily captured the Republican nomination for mayor of Philadelphia on this day in 1959, pitting him against immensely popular Democratic incumbent Richardson Dilworth in the general election. Running […]
Paul Simon of Illinois, the rumble-voiced, bow-tie wearing former newspaperman who unseated longtime Republican Sen. Charles H. Percy only three years earlier, announced his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination on this day twenty-five years ago. “I seek the Presidency with a firm sense […]
“Well, it looks like they pulled the plug on the rabbit,” Buddy Roemer told Uncovered Politics moments after Americans Elect announced that it was ending its nominating process. “I feel like a guinea pig, but I understand why they did it,” explained the former Louisiana […]
Wayne Morse, the three-term Oregon senator whose long-shot quest for the Democratic presidential nomination baffled party leaders and pundits alike, came up short in the Maryland primary on this day in 1960, losing to front-runner John F. Kennedy by a lopsided margin of 201,789 to […]
In an e-mail to supporters earlier today, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio ruled out a possible bid for a seat in the U.S. House from the state of Washington. A number of the eight-term Ohio congressman’s friends and supporters in Bellingham, Olympia and Seattle […]
In what promises to be a closely-watched, high-stakes U.S. Senate race this fall, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska easily won the Democratic nomination for his old job and will square off against Republican Deb Fischer — a surprise come-from-behind winner in the GOP primary […]
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, who had stunned the Democratic establishment by polling a whopping 42% of the vote in the crowded March 14 Florida primary and finishing a strong second in the Wisconsin and Pennsylvania primaries the following month, was shot and critically wounded […]
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