Unresolved House races at a glance

11-14-2006 • AP

Details on the 10 House races in which the outcome remains undecided:

McCain to Form Committee To Explore White House Bid

11-12-2006 • Washington Post - Dana Milbank

Sen. John McCain of Arizona said he will form an exploratory committee as the first step toward a possible run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. (Get ready for Jeb Bush VP spin)

Out-of-Work GOP Aides Face Tough Road Ahead

11-10-2006 • Roll Call

The hundreds of Republican staffers [in D.C.] who will lose their jobs in the next few weeks are going to face a hostile marketplace on K Street as unemployed Republicans flood the market. [Perhaps they can enlist in the Army?]

The Wreck of the War Party

11-10-2006 • by Doug Bandow (AntiWar)

The wild, drunken neocon joyride is over. After running as the candidate of national restraint and humility, George Bush metamorphosed into a modern Alexander the Great, promising to bring civilization and democracy to both the known and unknown worl

CNN tells YouTube to pull down video outing GOP party head Ken Mehlman

11-10-2006 • AmericaBlog

I just got a cease-and-desist letter from YouTube, see below, regarding my CNN footage I posted. The footage, you'll recall, was from Larry King Live last night in which Bill Maher outed Republican Party chair Ken Mehlman as gay.

Mehlman Won't Seek Another Term as Republican Party Chief

11-10-2006 • Washington Post

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who guided President Bush's reelection campaign to victory in 2004 and saw his party suffer the loss of the House and Senate, will not seek a second term as party leader, informed sources said l

R.I. senator may leave Republican Party

11-10-2006 • AP

Two days after losing a bid for a second term, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican.

Republicans in dilemma over "Religious Right"

11-9-2006 • Reuters

Thumped in Tuesday's elections, the Republican Party faces a dilemma as it prepares for 2008: trying to claw back support in the center while keeping loyal conservative Christians happy.

Hispanic voters punish Republicans in US elections

11-9-2006 • Reuters

Hispanic voters irked by the Republican hard line on immigration policy turned out in force and helped Democrats win in U.S. congressional elections, according to exit polls and analysts.

Republicans' Angry Factions Point Fingers At Each Other

11-9-2006 • Washington Post

After minutes upon minutes of soul-searching, Republicans are now in recrimination mode. And the GOP's various factions all agree: This wouldn't have happened if the party had listened to us.

Alien Autopsy: Fall of the house of kitsch

11-9-2006 • by Sidney Blumenthal (Salon)

The Bush administration and the Republican Congress could not defend themselves on their public record and urgently needed to change the subject. They required new fields of combat -- not the Iraq war, certainly not convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff,

Richard Viguerie Says: Message to Republican Congressional Leaders: You're Fired!

11-8-2006 • Press Release

"This election," Viguerie said, "was also a referendum on the so-called 'neoconservatives' -- the Big Government Republicans who took us into a nation-building war while they busted the budget and enriched Big Business and its

War Weary Voters Demand Change

11-8-2006 • AP

Weary of war and angry at the president who started it, Americans vented their frustration at Washington's power structure. A clear call for change aimed at President Bush and a Republican Congress that marched in step behind the commander in chi

Mitchell ousts Hayworth for U.S. House seat

11-8-2006 • AP

Voters ousted Republican incumbent J.D. Hayworth from his seat in Arizona's 5th Congressional District. With 79% of precincts reporting, Mitchell had 52%, Hayworth had 45%, and Libertarian Warren Severin had 3 percent.

Wednesday, time for Presidential campaigns to start

11-7-2006 • McClatchy News

But for one very small, very elite and supremely confident group, the last several months were just a warm-up. For 20-plus potential candidates for president in 2008, the presidential campaign starts in earnest Wednesday.

The GOP must go

11-5-2006 • The American Conservative OpEd

The meaning of this election will be interpreted in one of two ways: the American people endorsed the Bush presidency or they did what they could to repudiate it. Such an interpretation will be simplistic, even unfairly so. Nevertheless, the fact tha

Scandals Alone Could Cost Republicans Their House Majority

11-2-2006 • Washington Post

Indictments, investigations and allegations of wrongdoing have helped put at least 15 Republican House seats in jeopardy, enough to swing control to the Democrats even before the larger issues of war, economic unease and President Bush are invoked.

Middle-income group feels squeeze in election

11-2-2006 • Reuters

David Hicks will still be paying back his student loans by the time his children, now aged 10 and 12, are in college, and he plans to refinance his modest home to help pay for their schooling.

Political Ad leads to firing of Wal-Mart consultant

10-29-2006 • New York Times

After infuriating Canada's ambassador to the US and offending black voters in Tennessee, a Republican TV commercial mocking Rep. Harold E. Ford has become a political liability for an unlikely third party: Wal-Mart. Under pressure from black le

GOP buying votes with taxpayer's stolen dollars

10-29-2006 • LA Times

The most significant element of Rove's effort to help 4-term Rep. Thomas Reynolds keep his job occurred behind closed doors meeting with a federal disaster relief official contemplating how to respond to the storm. 4 days later, Reynolds announce

Poll: Evangelical support for Iraq war slipping

10-28-2006 • Reuters

A new poll shows support for the war in Iraq is slipping among white evangelical Protestants, previously a key pillar of support for President George W. Bush's conduct of the conflict.

Poll: Middle class voters abandoning GOP

10-28-2006 • AP

The 2006 election is shaping up to be a repeat of 1994. This time, Democrats are favored to sweep Republicans from power in the House after a dozen years of GOP rule. Less than 2 weeks before the Nov. 7 election likely voters overwhelmingly prefer De

A Return to Triangulation

10-25-2006 • National Review (kudos Steve A.)

In our analysis of data from Pew, Gallup, and American National Election Studies, we find that the terrorism issue has masked an otherwise large swing of independent voters away from the Republican party from 2000 to 2004.

Two Wings of One Bird of Prey

10-26-2006 • The Dreyfuss Report

An article in Mother Jones co-authored by me and Jason Vest, called "The Lie Factory," is being cited by the Republicans in a race involving Chris Carney, the Democrat, who reportedly served in the forerunner to the Pentagon's Office of

GOP Congressional Candidate in Calif under investigation

10-24-2006 • TPM Muckracker

Ever since the LA Times reported that Tan Nguyen, the Republican challenger in California's 47th District, was under investigation for attempted voter suppression, he's been doing what he could to salvage his already failing challenge.

Calif. GOP candidate urged to exit race by GOP

10-20-2006 • LA Times

Orange County Republican leaders called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.

Alarm Bells for G.O.P. in Ohio

10-18-2006 • NY Times/CBS poll

The bellwether state of Ohio appears to have become hostile terrain for Republicans this year, with voters there overwhelmingly saying Democrats are more likely to help create jobs and concluding by a wide margin that Republicans in the state are mor