Plagued by persistently low approval ratings, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett undoubtedly breathed a sigh of relief late yesterday afternoon when Montgomery County Commissioner Bruce Castor announced that he wouldn’t challenge the increasingly unpopular governor in next May’s Republican primary. A former Montgomery County District Attorney […]

Leading by more than thirty points in the polls, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign war chest is overflowing with cash, his campaign announced on Monday. Christie’s campaign has raised a total just shy of $6.2 million and reportedly has $3.4 million on hand as […]

Erasing a 9-point deficit, disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford (R) has narrowly pulled ahead of Democratic rival Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina’s widely-watched special congressional election, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey released Sunday night. Conducted on May 4 and 5, the […]

Regarded by some as an almost prohibitive favorite in the special election to replace now-Secretary of State John Kerry in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey could be in for a much tougher race than anybody imagined. According to a Public Policy Polling survey of […]

According to POLITICO, a wealthy financial executive from Minneapolis is expected to declare his candidacy for Democrat Al Franken’s U.S. Senate seat sometime next week. The challenger, Michael F. McFadden, is a co-chief executive officer of Lazard Middle Market, a division of Lazard Ltd., one […]

U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a favorite of the Tea Party crowd, tweeted a message to supporters Friday evening saying that he has decided not to seek the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin in 2014. “I will not run for Senate in […]

While Democrat Leticia Perez and Republican Andy Vidak are receiving the lion’s share of media attention in California’s 16th State Senate District special election, at least one of three long-shot candidates in the race is running like a man on a mission, one who doesn’t […]

Trailing by double digits in most public opinion polls, Congressman Stephen F. Lynch bravely predicted a come-from-behind victory in his long-shot quest for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination against U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey in Massachusetts on Tuesday. Lynch, who also forecast a 23 percent […]

The Libertarian Party of Virginia nominated Robert C. Sarvis for governor in a special state convention held Sunday afternoon in Waynesboro. Though not quite a household name, the little-known Libertarian is an impressive candidate by almost any measure. Raised in Northern Virginia, the 36-year-old Sarvis graduated from […]