United States Senator from Louisiana
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores President Obama’s curious response to legislation that would approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The new Congress was not yet two hours old…
• Two North Carolina House members got their chance Tuesday to grill controversial former Obama administration health care consultant Jonathan Gruber: Reps. Patrick McHenry, R-10th, and Mark Meadows, R-11th. Meadows’ encounter…
• A preview of the 2016 campaign for governor? Republican Gov. Pat McCrory (at right) has chided his likely challenger, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, for refusing to represent the…
• With the defeat of Kay Hagan, NBC News says Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is the only Democratic senator from the “Deep South.” And Landrieu may be on her way…
Jim Gergahty, who will speak to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society later this month, probes for National Review Online the latest numbers on Republicans’ prospects for retaking control of…
Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu is fighting for re-election against Republican Bill Cassidy. The legality of aborting babies shows a difference between the candidates, reports Politico. “Nothing on this subject is…
Sen. Kay Hagan, playing by the rules as they’re written: The McCutcheon ruling frees joint campaign committees to collect checks as big as $3.6 million from a single donor, watchdogs…
Jim McTague devotes his latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s to an interesting historical pattern involving the stock market and midterm elections. Buzz cut, anyone? This is a midterm-election year,…
• A new SurveyUSA poll for Time Warner Cable News offers little good news for incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. Half of the respondents disapprove of her performance and only 38…
If actions speak louder than words, then Wall Street Journal editors might be on to something. Suddenly ObamaCare is a roaring success, happy days are here again and liberals are…
Eliana Johnson shares with National Review Online readers some of the history surrounding a series of anti-Obamacare advertisements funded by groups with ties to the libertarian Koch brothers. In one…
Michael Barone delves into more polling data for his latest Washington Examiner analysis of 2014 election contests. The precarious position of Democrats in their battle to hold onto a Senate…