Political Crumbs

U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter’s decision to run for president – and then end his campaign less than three months later – ought not to derail his ability to win a sixth term from Michigan’s 11th Congressional District in 2012 if…

In less than two weeks, Nevada will hold its first special election to the U.S. House in state history, with 2nd Congressional District residents voting to fill the seat vacated by Republican Dean Heller who was appointed to the U.S….

Although he has been (famously) ignored by much of the media during the 2012 election cycle (vis-à-vis his relative standing in the GOP field), Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul is polling at approximately 10 percent in the race…

Although nearly 60 percent of Republicans in the U.S. Senate supported the deficit- and debt-reduction deal on Tuesday, there was one glaring splinter in its caucus. Of the 13 Republican Senators that began their terms this year, nine voted against…

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have a 39-6 (.867) record against current Big 10 teams since 1962, with 11 victories and only one loss since 1985 (a 40-7 blowout suffered at Penn State in 2002).

Two former party chairmen ran for U.S. Senate seats in Indiana in the Election of 1916.

This week Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry will pass former GOP Colorado Governor John Love for 50th place on the list of the longest serving governors in U.S. history. Perry has served 3,842 days (10 years, 6 months, 8 days)…

Almost half of the original 13 U.S. colonies have not yet produced a U.S. president to date.

The 2012 election cycle will mark the 100th anniversary of the nation’s landmark effort to open up the once very tightly-controlled party nomination process.

Democrat Anthony Weiner’s (NY-09) resignation on Thursday comes 220 years, 10 months, and three days since the first congressman resigned from the nation’s lower legislative chamber.