Politics

With official word from the White House, Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, is the nominee to replace outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Pending confirmation by the Senate, Lynch, 55, she will become the first African-American woman to be named U.S. attorney general. Described as a low-profile prosecutor, she…

Now that the guessing game is over and everyone’s cards are on the table, President Obama has outlined the facets of his agenda that he’s willing to compromise with the Republicans on, and the one issue he’s not budging on: immigration. “In a sign of how he intends to govern under a new political order with ascendant…

Democrats who accuse low-income Republicans of voting against their own interests may be on to something. A New York Times report notes that Republicans who became insured and benefited the most under the Affordable Care Act—dubbed Obamacare—elected Republicans to their state and federal legislatures who do not support the measure. “Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia—states…

The day after Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms, President Barack Obama took to the podium in the White House East Room and acknowledged that he and his party had just taken a “shellacking.” So even though he declined to characterize Tuesday’s GOP Senate takeover at his Wednesday postmortem,…

With midterm hangover setting in, many will chatter and finger-point into next month about what happened, who did what and why. And at the center of it will be questions about the black vote. In crucial Senate and gubernatorial races where the black vote was needed most—Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina—Democrats faced…

The Republican Party’s takeover of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm election is the tip of the rather sizable iceberg that saw the GOP win governorships in the blue states of Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts. As the losses for Democrats mounted during election night, any number of pundits questioned the Democratic Party’s Obama Avoidance Syndrome.…

To hear the pundits tell it, the reason Democrats took a big hit in Tuesday night’s midterm elections was the sinking popularity of President Barack Obama. And certainly, he’s not riding as high in the polls as he was a few years ago. But whatever the political challenges that Obama and Democrats faced in 2014—the…

Political observers called it months ago, but Tuesday’s midterm elections made it official: The Republicans have captured control of the U.S. Senate. And even though this outcome was predicted, the actual numbers are making it that much more impactful. According to a CNN report, Republican candidates across the nation won seven Senate seats that were…

In 2000, Gen. Colin Powell was elected president of the United States. He rode into office on high favorability ratings resulting from his successful stint as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His core conviction was best captured in his 1996 Republican National Convention speech, in which he proclaimed that a united America…

President Barack Obama came out of hiding Sunday and campaigned for Democratic candidates in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. He’s calling these midterm elections his last official campaign—which has probably been a bittersweet experience, seeing as how so many Democrats have tried to distance themselves from the unpopular president in the past few months. “In tight races…