RHODE ISLAND: There are several interesting Senate races in the east this year, but Rhode Island is not one of them. Democratic incumbent Jack Reed should win easily. In reality, Sheldon Whitehouse was the weaker of the state’s two Senators entering their reelection efforts and he handily won in 2012. If Whitehouse could win as easily in 2012, then Reed’s chances are even greater in | Read More »
As many here may be aware, the Republican Party is again poised to take over the US Senate in 2016. We’ve been down this road before in 2010 and just recently this year. In 2014, of the 33 seats up for reelection, twenty of them belong to the Democrats. In looking at the 13 Republican seats to be defended, it would appear that possibly only | Read More »
About half way through this series of articles, we are about to leave territory friendly to Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in general as we head into the northeast and the swing states. West Virginia went for McCain in 2010 and they will go for Romney is 2012 to a greater degree. There is a palpable dislike of Obama in this state bordering on | Read More »
This will be a rather short entry, although there is a lot of drama for such a small state and the outcomes pretty much settled. For Governor, incumbent Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin should win reelection with little problem. Meanwhile, Joe Manchin runs for a full term in the Senate after winning a special election in 2010 to complete the term of deceased Senator Robert Byrd. | Read More »
Like the races in Wisconsin and Washington, the Senate race in West Virginia has changed the thrust of the Democratic strategy this year. Instead of playing offense in states like New Hampshire, Ohio and Missouri, they are now forced to play defense in these states. And this is a “special election” to fill out the term of deceased Senator Robert Byrd and the winner will | Read More »
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