Country music legend Willie Nelson has endorsed Republican Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, for president, according to POLITICO. Johnson, who had once admitted to smoking pot for medicinal purposes, received Nelson’s endorsement — and that of his recently-formed “Teapot Party” — precisely […]

Conservative businessman Craig Huey, a political newcomer who invested $515,000 of his own money into what many believed was a long-shot bid for California’s heavily-Democratic 36th congressional district seat formerly held by Rep. Jane Harman, appears to have exceeded all expectations by qualifying for a […]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter hardly broke a sweat in sweeping past his lone rival T. Milton Street, the brother of former Mayor John Street, in yesterday’s Democratic mayoral primary. Nutter’s primary victory all but assures that he will serve another four years as mayor […]

In what is believed to have been the closest mayoral race in Jacksonville history, Democrat Alvin Brown led Republican Mike Hogan by 603 votes on Tuesday evening with all 256 of the city’s precincts reporting. Unofficially, Brown received 95,580 votes to Hogan’s 94,977. The officials […]

Republican David Williams has jumped out to an early, but not commanding, lead over Louisville entrepreneur Phil Moffett in Kentucky’s Republican gubernatorial primary. With 12 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, Williams had 8,037 votes, or 45 percent, to Moffett’s 7,264 votes, or 41 percent. […]

Marcy Winograd, an antiwar candidate who waged spirited primary campaigns against U.S. Rep. Jane Harman in 2006 and 2010 — polling an eye-opening 41 percent of the vote against the wealthy nine-term congresswoman in the latter contest — is likely to find that the third […]

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan announced earlier today that he would not be seeking the U.S. Senate seat now held by retiring Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl. Ryan, whose budget proposal calls for more than $4 trillion in cuts in federal spending over the next decade, told […]

Though Senate President David Williams is heavily favored to win tomorrow’s Republican primary for governor in Kentucky for the right to take on Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, who is running unopposed for his party’s nomination, Tea Party activist Phil Moffett believes a major upset is […]

Long-shot presidential aspirant Fred Karger of California told supporters in an e-mail earlier today that there is one less candidate in the Republican presidential race and he couldn’t be happier. “I know Mike Huckabee is supposed to be a nice guy, but his hateful words […]

A key supporter of Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign in South Carolina said today that he will back Jon Huntsman for the Republican presidential nomination if the former Utah governor and ex-ambassador to China enters the race, according to several sources. Mike Campbell, the son […]