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Democrats' hope of Senate supermajority could rest with 2 districts
The Democrats' quest to regain their supermajority in the state Senate could be decided next month in an ethnically diverse section of Orange County and a large swath of farmland and rural towns about 300 miles away in the Central Valley. Those...
White House names Ebola czar as it steps up response
With Americans' fears over random Ebola exposure fueled anew by scares on a cruise ship and a tour bus, the Obama administration moved Friday to fight accusations of incompetence from around Washington and on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm...
Unprecedented amount of 'dark money' fuels midterm races
In Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, crowded with attack ads from both sides, one group has spent millions praising Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a friend of the state's coal industry and flaying his Democratic challenger for cashing...
A political crisis called Ebola
Until last week, Ebola was merely a humanitarian disaster and a threat to global health. Now it's a U.S. political crisis too. And that's not just because of the heightened vitriol between the two parties in an election year. The Obama...
Costly, nasty battle rages in San Diego race for Congress
In its third editorial endorsing Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio over Democratic incumbent Scott Peters, the U-T San Diego newspaper had one description of DeMaio that not even his many critics could dispute: "One of a kind." ...
Steinberg's Senate reign marked by fiscal triumphs, peers' scandals
Darrell Steinberg took the helm of the state Senate six years ago with the global economy in a meltdown that choked off tax revenue, causing the state budget deficit to balloon to $42 billion. It took Steinberg and other state leaders four...
Outside groups spending millions in hot California House races
Spending by political parties and other interest groups in some of California's hottest congressional races continued to climb over the last week, in one case even surpassing what the candidates have raised for their campaigns. ...
Transfer of Ebola patients reflects a tacit shift in strategy
The federal government effectively began to restrict the care of Ebola patients to hospitals with special bio-containment units Thursday, and the Obama administration labored to reassure jittery Americans and increasingly skeptical lawmakers that...
Ebola scare is the latest issue to cloud midterm election debate
Fears that the West Africa Ebola outbreak could spread more widely in America have roiled a midterm election campaign that's already taken numerous unexpected detours, putting candidates in a reactive mode at a time when they had hoped to deliver their...
Parties' spending may expand battlefield for California Assembly races
A flurry of recent campaign spending by both parties indicates the battlefield may be expanding in the fight to make or break the Democrats' supermajority in the Assembly.
Race for Florida governor hit by fan interference
Florida, the state of the hanging chad, once again has something new for the political world — a race for governor that may be determined by fan interference. That would be an electric fan, dark brown plastic,...
Louisiana Senate race showcases GOP divide in three-way contest
Republicans have done a better job this election season of averting the primary battles that have split the party in past years and dashed its chances for winning control of the Senate. Except in Louisiana. The state's open primary...
Blowback: Local government experience deserves to be praised, not mocked
In its endorsement of Sheila Kuehl for Los Angeles County supervisor in the 3rd District, The Times pointed to her many years...
Leon Panetta's 'Worthy Fights' critiques Obama's policies
As a young Republican in 1969, Leon Panetta joined the Nixon administration as the director of the Office of Civil Rights. Panetta worked to integrate Southern schools, but after discovering that Richard Nixon's White House was trying to delay...
Have Democrats already lost the Senate? Nope.
In my column on Wednesday, I wrote about the Democrats’ chronic difficulty in getting “unreliable voters” to...
Obama to delay attorney general nomination until after election
President Obama will wait until after the November election to name a nominee for attorney general, setting the stage for an intense battle in the postelection Senate that could last until Christmas, a White House official said...
Some Senate candidates seize on terrorism as campaign issue
Far behind in the polls and in need of a bump, a Republican running for Senate in New Mexico recently turned to the image of the knife-wielding Islamic State militant who beheaded an American journalist, building a campaign advertisement that flashes...
In Wisconsin, Democrats try moderation in fight with Scott Walker
Two years ago, politics here burned with a white-hot intensity. Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican elected in 2010, had pushed a bill through the Legislature eliminating most collective bargaining rights for state workers. Unions and their...
A good day for voting rights -- or is it?
Restrictive voter ID laws in Texas and Wisconsin have been blocked by federal judges--in the latter case by the Supreme...
GOP-backed limits on voting lead to spirited backlash from Democrats
When the Supreme Court threw out part of the Voting Rights Act last year, many predicted it would bolster Republican efforts to tighten voting procedures in advance of this fall's election, particularly in the South. Already, more Americans...
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