“Ed Gillespie” on The Daily Caller

Veteran Republican strategist Ed Gillespie’s latest plan to help GOP candidates win state-level elections involves making sure they aren’t stuck with crappy campaign websites. (more)

Esteemed GOP strategist and former George W. Bush adviser Ed Gillespie told The Daily Caller Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s “only hope” for re-election is “to try and energize more Democratic voters and try to identify the non-voters from the last election and get them into the process.”  (more)

Esteemed GOP strategist and former George W. Bush adviser Ed Gillespie told The Daily Caller that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain needs to put everything on the table if he is going to stand a chance of surviving the sexual harassment allegations against him. (more)

Ed Gillespie, one of the Republican Party’s best-known strategists, says Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus “saved” the once struggling organization. (more)

The Republican-aligned group Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (better known as Crossroads GPS) is launching a nationwide TV ad criticizing unions in light of Wisconsin’s fight over collective bargaining. (more)

Rarely do down-ticket races determine the outcome at the top of the ticket. The 2012 elections could turn this axiom on its head. (more)

Washington has rushed to declare President Obama a political Lazarus based on an active and successful lame duck session of Congress that saw tax rates extended for two years, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and will likely on Wednesday add the ratification of a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. (more)

It appears that former Vice President Dick Cheney has a favorite candidate to run the Republican National Committee — and it’s not current chairman Michael Steele. (more)

Key Republicans hoping to prevent Michael Steele from another term as chairman of the Republican National Committee, who just a week ago were anxious they might not be able to stop Steele, are now confident he will be defeated. (more)

As he contemplates running for a second term, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is on the verge of losing his coalition of supporters. Even some of those closest to the controversial chairman have begun urging him to step aside. (more)

For all the talk of replacing Michael Steele at the Republican National Committee, Republicans who want him out are having a difficult time figuring out who’s the man or woman to do it. (more)

The Democrats’ donor disclosure talking point this election cycle has been something of a Trojan horse. (more)

Texas builder Bob Perry, who in 2004 funded the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” campaign targeting Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, donated $7 million to conservative group American Crossroads between September 1 and October 13, according to the Wall Street Journal. (more)

Who will be the Republican Rahm Emanuel in 2010? (more)

When I think of the influence money has had in U.S. elections, I’m reminded of that wonderful scene in the 1963 motion picture Cleopatra where Egypt, in a Senate vote, officially becomes Rome’s ally under some rather “surprising” circumstances: (more)

The GOP-aligned American Crossroads said Wednesday it has raised over $13 million since coming under attack from President Obama. (more)

President Obama on Monday dropped any mention of the charge he hurled days earlier at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the business industry group was using foreign money to finance election year TV ads. (more)

American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-backed group that has stepped into this election cycle and will play with as much money as the Chamber of Commerce and the big unions (about $50 million), has come under fire from Democrats for not disclosing its donors. (more)

A week ago, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray looked like she might be running away from Republican challenger Dino Rossi in the Washington Senate race. But that was before the GOP launched a nearly $4 million fusillade of TV advertising. (more)

Republicans in November will win control of more state legislatures than previously projected, according to a report released Thursday, which could lead to more Republican drawn U.S. House districts during redistricting next year. (more)