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President Obama is not a popular politician in Colorado but, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey , Obama would defeat in a landslide Republican Newt Gingrich, whose star has risen of late but who boasts laughable negative numbers with voters here and is despised by the state’s enormous percentage of independent voters. Gingrich, however, is the latest in a revolving list of candidates who have floated to the top of the party’s primary contest as an alternative to effective frontrunner Mitt Romney. PPP recently reported Gingrich leading Romney among Colorado Republicans 37-18 , partly due to the fact that Gingrich is drawing the lion’s share of Herman Cain supporters left in the lurch when their man dropped out of the race in the wake of horrifically managed spiraling sex scandals.

Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them

In May, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released an audit revealing that the FBI’s terrorist watchlist -- the list used at border

Suggesting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leave the room in the debate over end-of-life counseling, conservative Washington Post columnist Charles

The Obama administration is pretty much resigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai winning reelection next month. The administration considers Karzai to be

Michael Mukasey, the highest legal official in the land: "the Vice President is obviously one of the close advisers to the president and is within the

It turns out the special ethics committee meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. has, like so many Washington events, been pushed back, at least temporarily. House Ethics

The 2011 legislative special session begins today in Santa Fe to deal with the once-per-decade process of redistricting, but Gov. Susana Martinez has demanded lawmakers repeal driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and end social promotion for third-graders, among other provisions. The legislature will take up the redistricting of congressional and legislative districts.

Remember how I wrote yesterday that the next round of Afghanistan/Pakistan/U.S. trilateral talks would be held in Washington on May 5 to 7? According to a

This morning, the Labor Department released an incrementally improved report on initial jobless claims. The number of Americans filing fell for the third

Ahh, the wisdom of Congress controlling the federal purse strings ... The House today is poised to pass legislation creating a special 11-member commission

Here is David Axelrod (PDF), speaking with CBS’s Bob Shieffer this weekend: BOB SHIEFFER: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse now we find that

Roland Burris, the scandal-plagued accidental senator from Illinois, will not seek his own term in the Senate. The Chicago Sun-Times has the scoop: The

ProPublica and NPR’s Planet Money are up with a great investigation into how banks sustained demand for risky mortgage-backed securities, even as the housing

I wasn’t able to join yesterday’s briefing with two U.S. officials who commented on James Risen’s big story about geologists’ estimate that Afghanistan

Lest you should think that Sen. Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) no vote on the Environment and Public Works Committee’s climate bill signaled his opposition to

Somehow, the 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court earlier today in Ricci v. DeStefano has been turned into a 9-0 ruling against Supreme Court nominee Sonia

Republicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory.

Ben Smith points us to the lawsuit that original Barack Obama Birther Phil Berg has filed against ... well, not everyone in the movement, but pretty close.

Via Climate Progress, E&E News reports that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to