This year, the DCCC had the worst roster of candidates I’ve ever seen. Their red-to-blue program was absolutely putrid— and most of them...

Anyone Who Imagined DeBene Would Be Better Than Maloney Must've Been High For most Democrats in Congress— not all— the election is either...

Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...

Looking At A Slice Of California Through That Lens Ralph Vartabedian could have just as easily written “How Texas Became a New Center of...

The DCCC Has One Thing Going For It: Republicans Are Worse In New York State, 2020 saw Biden beat Trump 60.9% to 37.7%— not as good as...

Blue Wave Headed This Way? Yesterday, James Rainey reported something that isn’t exactly earth shattering: Kamala and Tim are building a...

Rudy Salas & Adam Gray Were The Worst Dems In Sacramento— They Want To Be The Worst In DC California may not be all that progressive, but...

L.A. Times Coverage Doesn’t Include Candidate Quality Yesterday, L.A. Times political staff writer Julia Wick noted that “While...

I’m not really that familiar with Melanie Mason’s reporting. I’ve seen her stuff at Politico and I have no impression that she is...

The any-blue-will-do drumbeat has begun— from the DCCC and from the DCCC-minded. Most of the candidates in the DCCC’s Red to Blue program...

The San Joaquin Valley’s 22nd congressional district should have been a Democratic seat. A majority-Latino district, it includes most of...

The New Red To Blue List Is Mostly Shit Late last week, the Washington Post ran a pointless puff piece on the latest DCCC chair, Suzan...

CA-22 is a fairly safe blue district in California’s Central Valley, parts of 3 counties— Kern, Tulare and Kings. Biden beat Trump by 13...

Did I Mention Their Dysfunctional Leadership? Extreme right House Republicans in safe hillbilly districts— to use Gym Jordan’s parlance—...

The DCCC leaked/planted a memo with former Republican Jennifer Rubin and she got all excited about it, although it’s a version of the...

Establishment Democrats have so little faith in what the party is supposed to stand for that they count on a lesser of two evils approach...

Here Are Their Names This year’s Courage Campaign ratings of all the California legislators just came out. It’s important to mention that...

It shouldn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that especially bad candidates are more likely to lose elections than especially good— or...

One of the most unexpected wins to drop into the Democrats’ lap was in southwest Washington state where a thoroughly red seat was won by...

A new USAToday poll by Suffolk University shows Trump’s presidential bid in 2024 has cratered among Republicans. “By 2-1, GOP and...