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The Democratic Governors Association says it is making Connecticut one of its top priorities in the 2010 elections, hoping to pickup a gubernatorial seat there after losing New Jersey and Virginia earlier this month.

As we notedinOctober, 2008, "The Greatest Danger to the Republican Party: Sarah Palin," this nation was founded on the basis of a social compact.

If some bloviating politician tries to pump up their chest like a concussed, steroid-popping linebacker, WWE wrestler or hedge fund zillionaire and barks about "mandates from the people" this past election, take a step back, smile and offer them a breath mint.

The political revolt in New York that claimed the candidacy of moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava could have broad reprocussions for the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut.

"Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power." So writes Adam Nagourney of The Times this week, summing up the sense of many regarding an ...

After Tuesday's elections, Florida looms as the next front in a war between moderates and conservatives that's dividing a Republican Party trying to surge toward the 2010 election.

Vote Baby, Vote! November 4, 2009 10:23 PM Posted to Election 2010 The two non-voters in the race for U.S. Senate got out to the polls Tuesday and cast their ballots for local officials in Weston and Greenwich.

If you want to understand what is really happening in American politics today, the latest Rothenberg Political Report on the 2010 Senate races is an eye-opener. Barely a year after Democrats took back the White House and further strengthened their grip on Congress, President Obama's public approval score has dropped to near 50 percent or less, at ...

Are conservatives leading the Republican Party off a cliff? That's what a lot of people concluded after conservatives forced the official Republican candidate out of a congressional race in upstate New York for being too liberal.

After pumping more than $1 million into an upstate New York House race to elect the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman, the Club for Growth is on the hunt again.

It was a message of nonchalance: asked last night if President Obama was watching the election returns, a White House spokesman said he was not.

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010 .

Peter Schiff intends to vote on Tuesday. That normally would not be news, but Schiff has made it clear that he has largely avoided voting in his lifetime.

New England's moderate Republicans, shoved out of power by two Democratic waves of anti-George W. Bush fervor, are scrambling to make a 2010 comeback, making early bids for congressional seats that GOP leaders say are critical to taking back majorities in the House and Senate.

Rob Simmons, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has lined up a slate of young Republicans who will advise his campaign on youth issues.

If you ask the leaders of Connecticut's Republican party about the five-way battle for the 2010 U.S. Senate nomination, they will inform you that this is in every way a great thing for the party.

A while back I wrote : So who to root for? A Blue Dog who would strengthen the Democrats' corporatist faction, or a Republican version of a Lieberdem, who will probably be muzzled, but could -- if she remained true to her record in Albany -- be more of a Susan Collins-type Republican, a moderate in an ideologically rigid party willing to give the ...

Continuing from my last post, where I looked at the GOP's chances of adding women Governors in the 2010 election cycle.

With Senate Democrats facing a delicate moment in the health care debate, U.S. Sen.

A top U.S. Senate Democrat moved Monday to impose an immediate freeze on credit card interest rates, as congressional Democrats continue their ongoing efforts to rein in perceived industry abuses.