If Republicans are in a pinch after November’s election, and need a few extra seats to secure a comfortable majority in the House, is it possible that conservative Democrats will be persuaded to defect and join the GOP? (more)
When Alabama Democratic Rep. Bobby Bright recently joked that Speaker of the House “might get sick and die” – preventing her from another tenure as Speaker – it was only the most outlandish instance of politically vulnerable Democrats suddenly expressing their opposition to their Party’s leadership in Washington. (more)
As high-school seniors across the country ready themselves for the grueling college application process, we at The Daily Caller have compiled a definitive ranking of America’s very best colleges. Over the next several days, we will lay out what schools made the cut. (more)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The political shooting-star otherwise known as anti-incumbency fell on Alabama, taking down a first-term congressman who switched from Democrat to Republican just last December. (more)
Democrats brought Sen. Arlen Specter into their tent in 2009, after 44 years as an elected Republican. But when his name appeared on the primary ballot as a Democrat this month, voters in Pennsylvania weren’t as welcoming as the national party leaders. He lost. (more)
In one week, former Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith will face Alabama voters for the first time as a Republican. The election comes exactly two weeks after Democratic primary voters rejected this cycle’s higher-profile party-switcher, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.). (more)
Stephen Nodine almost ran for mayor of Mobile, Ala. last summer on a platform of eradicating an out-of-control increase in crime in the coastal city. (more)
Will Tea Partiers be able to oust tax-and-spend incumbents in the House and replace them with fiscal conservatives in November? (more)
Democrats voted down an attempt Thursday by Republicans to bar them from using a “deem and pass” strategy, dubbed the “Slaughter Solution,” which would allow the House to pass the Senate health care bill without directly voting on it. (more)
Party-switcher Parker Griffith is raking in campaign cash thanks to Washington Republicans, but the congressman’s not exactly feeling the love in his northern Alabama district these days. (more)
Tea Party activists in the district of Rep. Parker Griffith, the Alabama congressman who in January left the Democratic Party to become a Republican, are not pleased that House Minority Leader John Boehner will headline a fundraiser for Griffith in Huntsville next week. (more)
Any conversation about moderates in the 111th Congress begins by focusing on the Blue Dog Democrats in the U.S. House. Although centrist Senate Democrats wield more power, the cleverly named Blue Dog Coalition gets the lion’s share of attention. And let’s face it, the House Blue Dog Democrats, those fifty or so fiscal conservatives on the right side of their party, have had a great ride. (more)
The downward spiral of the Obama-Pelosi agenda is a direct result of either a terrible misreading of the American culture or a complete lack of respect for it. Naïveté or hubris, the lesson is the same—ignore the American spirit at your own peril. (more)
These days D.C.-area football fans aren’t the only ones sorely let down. (more)
What a difference a year makes. In 2008, voters were sold a bag of goods by Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat puppets. Democrats promised a secure America, both fiscally and physically, but those campaign promises were disregarded before the first month of 2009 even ended. Now with a new decade upon us, Americans have a chance to take back their country by taking back the people’s House. (more)
