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Markos Moulitsas leaks (on Twitter) the results of the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, which has Marco Rubio surging against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in

Alexander Bolton has an important story in the The Hill about conservative division -- polite so far -- over whether the party’s stalwart Senate minority should

A loss in Massachusetts has damaged the prospects for comprehensive health reform legislation and left Democrats wondering how to galvanize the electorate.

Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet. Gregg, of course, withdrew his

With the Senate race in West Virginia between sitting Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and businessman John Raese in a virtual dead heat going into the final week,

Just in across the transom: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced a press conference with

Fox News continues its drumbeat on the rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue of voter fraud with a story about Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick

U.S. Rep. Steve King and four additional Midwestern lawmakers have penned a letter to President Obama, requesting that he also make time to tour the historic flooding along the Missouri River when he visits Iowa next week.

State Sen. Jerry Behn (R-Boone) will serve as the Senate Republican leader, the caucus decided after a closed-door meeting Thursday.

New Mexico has a major stake in the current No Child Left Behind overhaul underway in the U.S.

Health News Florida is reporting that the state’s health department has released information that shows local health departments have suffered significant layoffs and service cuts due to the state’s budget cuts for public health. # Health News reports : # Some counties are laying off a dozen or more employees, while others are not eliminating personnel at all, instead ending certain services, such as flu clinics. The lists – one for state employees , the other for those on temporary contracts – don’t include some counties, since they reflect layoffs of personnel accomplished or identified as of Aug

Counties across Colorado are gearing up for the next major oil and gas boom, scrambling to draft local regulations for everything from visual impacts to physical setbacks of drilling equipment.

The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees: Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh

I was on the phone during Bob Gates’ first presser since being reappointed as defense secretary by President-elect Obama, but my man Matt DeLong kept me covered

Charles Johnson catches the Tea Party activist with the infamous N-word sign getting taken seriously by The Washington Times, which quotes him as a founder of

This weekend, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that it was too soon to say whether the Obama administration might revive

As someone who’s lived almost my entire life in Virginia, this election means a great deal to me, as it does to most voters in the state. For the first time

There’s good reason to be confused about the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, which showed that the nation’s jobless numbers rose by 11,000 last

The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung reports that after a tense week, the Obama administration believes neither a Taliban takeover nor a military coup is in

About 50 Occupy Minnesota protestors listed off why they wanted to risk arrest at Steve Payne’s teach-in on Saturday. Some said their goal was “to end capitalism.” Others said they protested “because the Federal Reserve and banks stole trillions.” Or for others, the end result was “to make a change” or “to stop just talking about a revolution.” Those broader grievances, though, were tied to a more specific one on the ninth day of Minnesota’s nascent spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept the nation: the desire for shelter to continue protesting in the face of Minnesota’s frigid weather.

Moments after Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) voted for the Democratic health care bill, countless anti-Cao Twitter feeds, Web forums, and Facebook pages were born.

The first meaningful Republican debate of the 2011-2012 primary was held in New Hampshire yesterday, and the candidates had much to say on how they would handle