What is expected to be a crowded Democratic race for the right to challenge embattled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett next year might get a little more cramped with the possible candidacy of Scott Conklin, a four-term state representative from Centre County. According to PoliticsPA, the […]

Ashley Judd’s long-rumored challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) next year won’t be happening.  Long considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, the actress announced her decision to skip the race in a message on Twitter yesterday. “After serious and thorough contemplation, I […]

Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr is expected to declare his candidacy later today for the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 11th congressional district seat currently held by right-wing Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta). Barr’s hat tossing, which will occur this morning at Adventure Outdoors, a popular firearms and sporting […]

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced on Friday that she will not seek the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Carl Levin. “Friends, thanks for all of the encouragement on the Michigan Senate seat, but I’m not going to run,” Granholm wrote on Facebook late yesterday. A visiting professor […]

Promising “a different Pennsylvania,” Max Myers, a former minister with the Assemblies of God church, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Pennsylvania yesterday. In announcing his candidacy at the capitol rotunda in Harrisburg as part of a three-day, five city tour […]

The theme Governor Rick Scott chose for Tuesday’s State of the State Speech was “It’s Working.” The Peace and Freedom Party agrees.  It (Florida’s government) is working — for the privileged 1%.  For the other 99% of Floridians, not so much. Governor Scott brags that […]

While Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling of Virginia ponders a possible independent bid for governor, another independent candidate — one who is arguably better known than the lieutenant governor — is already busy collecting the 10,000 valid signatures necessary to appear on the November ballot against […]

Two years after Gov. Chris Christie’s administration approved a $261 million package of tax incentives for the Revel Casino, the glittering centerpiece of an ambitious plan put forward by the governor to revitalize Atlantic City, the city’s newest casino announced earlier this week that it plans […]

Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr., received the endorsement of the Independence Party last night in his long-shot bid to become New York City’s first Latino mayor. The endorsement guarantees the former head of the White House’s Office of Urban Affairs and one-time regional […]