Lawmakers and chiefs of staff keeping their staffs working late may want to consider this: 38% of staffers say they would leave the Hill for a job where they could better balance their work and personal lives according to a report released today from the Congressional Management Foundation and the...
About 61 million viewers watched it on cable and broadcast TV, down 9% from the first debate, according to Nielsen. At the end of it: 1. President Obama stopped the bleeding 2. Mitt Romney stayed in the game 3. Race remains competitive TAKEAWAYS (compiled from Politico) - Offense is the...
Romney won the endorsement of the Orlando Sentinel, sitting smack dab in the swing state I-4 corridor. Even more impressive, Romney won over an editorial board that sided with Obama in 2008. Obama, on the other hand, won the endorsement of The Denver Post in the Western swing state of...
A pollster's job isn't simply to tell us who’s winning and who's losing, according to a Hotline analysis. They also tell us what the electorate is going to look like. And after 3 straight wave cycles, strategists in both parties are understandably skeptical about the numbers they're seeing. What, exactly,...
The Wall Street Journal reports that “The night before [U.S. ambassador to the U.N.] Susan Rice went public with the administration's assessment that the Sept. 11 U.S. consulate attack in Libya grew out of a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Muslim video, intelligence analysts were receiving new information that contradicted the...
Throughout the country, sequestration is about as popular as smallpox. Still, there’s little evidence that many members of Congress who put it in place will pay a price on Election Day. First: With bipartisan support for its passage, the sequestration bill is an equal-opportunity albatross around the necks of both...