On Tuesday, August 17, voters in California’s State Senate District 15 went to the polls to select a candidate to replace former Senator Abel Maldonado, who has been appointed Lieutenant Governor. The race was hotly contested and featured Republican Sam Blakeslee and Democrat John Laird along with independent Jim Fitzgerald and Libertarian nominee Mark Hinkle…
Sarah Palin’s former Lt. Governor, now the Governor of Alaska, is seeking to win a full term in his own right this Fall. Sean Parnell was elevated to the office of Governor when Palin abruptly announced she would resign in the summer of 2009 to focus on her family and…
The Libertarian Party’s weekly email message to supporters was a little unusual this week. Instead of asking for money or talking about a particular policy issue, the focus of this message was aimed straight at the party’s…
According to several news reports published over the past few days, Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) has urged Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana to enter the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes…
As the candidacy of former U.S. Rep. J. D. Hayworth continues to fade, a large number of Arizona Democrats remain undecided about which of their party’s four U.S. Senate candidates — three of whom didn’t enter the race until late April — is best suited to take on Republican John McCain in November.
Financier Peter Schiff fell short in his bid to stage a late come-from-behind rally in Connecticut’s three-cornered GOP Senate primary yesterday. Schiff, 47, reportedly spent close to a million dollars of his own money in his long-shot quest…
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, one of at least a dozen candidates pushing the idea of a publicly-owned bank in the 2010 mid-term elections, has captured the Democratic nomination for governor of Michigan.
Tea Party candidate Randy Wilkinson, a longtime Polk County commissioner, is polling 20 percent of the vote in Florida’s 12th congressional district, according to an internal poll released yesterday by Democratic candidate Lori Edwards…
Alfred E. Smith, the former governor of New York and Democratic nominee for president in 1928, declared his support for Republican Wendell L. Willkie for the presidency seventy years ago today…
While acknowledging that he faces almost insurmountable odds, economist Peter Schiff isn’t about to unfurl the white flag of surrender in his bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
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