Stories by Steve Peoples:
April 12, 2011
Democrats cheered new polling released Tuesday that showed independents appear to have swung dramatically in their favor since flocking to the GOP in November.
April 11, 2011
The first GOP presidential debate following the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary has been planned for Florida.
April 11, 2011
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will make his first New Hampshire appearance later this week, checking off the last of the must-stop early presidential primary states as he creeps closer to a White House run.
April 11, 2011
Adam Hasner hasn’t made his candidacy in Florida’s Senate contest official, but the grass-roots conservative favorite has already been targeted in an ethics complaint.
April 11, 2011
First-quarter fundraising reports due Friday are the first stretch of the 2012 Senate horse race, offering an early indication of who is jumping into the lead and, in general, how the 2012 Senate landscape is shaping up when control of the chamber is on the line.
April 11, 2011
The Democrats have some fun with the anniversary of Mitt Romney’s health care program.
April 11, 2011
Republicans dominated New Hampshire’s state and federal elections in the 2010 midterms, but polling released Monday suggests that the state’s two GOP House freshmen could be in trouble next year.
April 11, 2011
Maine Republican raised nearly $900,000 in first quarter.
April 8, 2011
Union officials in Wisconsin are calling for thousands of ballots to be immediately impounded and recounted following the revelation that a county clerk’s computer error tipped the state Supreme Court election in conservative Justice David Prosser’s favor.
April 8, 2011
Democrats want to put pressure on GOP Senate candidates.
April 8, 2011
Friction continues among tea party groups as GOP nominee gets endorsement.
April 7, 2011
Conservative Justice David Prosser surged ahead of his left-leaning challenger Thursday in the unusually high-profile race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court after a counting error was discovered, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
April 7, 2011
The Minnesota Republican is heading to the Granite State.
April 6, 2011
Former Rep. Melissa Bean will not run for her old seat in Illinois, admittedly disappointing Democratic Party leaders, including incoming Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
April 6, 2011
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ascension to the top post at the Democratic National Committee has won resounding praise from House Democrats, who now have a colleague leading the DNC for the first time in decades. But the shift also creates a set of challenges.
April 6, 2011
Rep. Christopher Murphy (D) — a Connecticut Senate candidate — raised $1.1 million in the first quarter of the year, according to figures released by his campaign Wednesday.
April 6, 2011
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election that became a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) crackdown on public employee unions remains too close to call.
April 6, 2011
A former FBI agent has joined to race to replace Senate candidate Rep. Chris Murphy in Connecticut’s 5th district.
April 5, 2011
Former Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) formally entered the Senate contest Tuesday, announcing his intentions in a Web video that blasted Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson as “a big part of the problem.”
April 5, 2011
Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.), who is among Democrats’ top targets in 2012, raised $1.7 million in the first quarter and will report more than $8.3 million in cash on hand when he files his campaign finance report later in the month.
April 5, 2011
Likely GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has donated $45,000 to national Republican campaign organizations, according to a statement released Tuesday.
April 5, 2011
The Donald ranks second. But ignore that.
April 5, 2011
Women’s group EMILY’s List is expected to release its top political targets later Tuesday, which include five House Republicans believed to be vulnerable to female challengers in 2012.
April 5, 2011
Democrat won’t run in primary to challenge Sen. Scott Brown.
April 4, 2011
The nation’s top Republican presidential prospects have joined the fight against Planned Parenthood, issuing near unanimous opposition this week to the use of tax dollars to help fund the women’s health organization that provides abortions.
