Among gay rights advocates already frustrated by Obama’s foot-dragging on their issues, this one threatens to balloon into a new controversy: Obama’s outside political operation is urging supporters in Maine to turn out to the polls for...

The GOP strategy on Afghanistan has been to frame President Obama’s choice as a decision over whether or not to go along with his commanders’ desire for an expanded counterinsurgency, and the new NBC/WSJ poll suggests it may be bearing ...

There’s a key piece of news buried in the new Gallup poll: A leading reason conservatives are maintaining their edge as the top ideological group is that independents appear to be moving to the right: Changes among political independents appe...

There seems to be a growing consensus among former GOP officials that their party has been successfully defined — or has defined itself — in very damaging terms as reflexively obstructionist and opposed at all costs to helping the majorit...

It isn’t often discussed, but if Senator Arlen Specter manages to lose the Pennsylvania Senate race to GOP challenger Pat Toomey, some of the blame will fall squarely on the White House and Dem establishment, which engineered Specter’s ...