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The Republican Primary taking place in Delaware on September 14 between Rep. Mike Castle and the Tea Party Express candidate, Christine O’Donnell, continues to heat up. The race pits a moderate-to-liberal establishment Republican against a conservative Tea Party Favorite whom some worry may not be ready for prime time. Even some conservatives are split over [...]

President Obama’s speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely — but not universally — negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president’s failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency “surge” strategy — authored by Gen. [...]

American politics has an August tradition: Incumbents and challengers fan through the nation claiming credit for the good they’ve done, blaming the other side for all manner of horribles — and then blaming each other for the “blame game.” Guess which strategy generally catches the most traction with voters? Trying to cash an electoral check [...]

First-term GOP Sen. Richard Burr holds a statistically-insignificant lead over Democrat Elaine Marshall in North Carolina’s Senate race, an outcome that probably has more to do with Burr’s high negatives among voters than progress by Marshall, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 27-31. Burr is ahead of Marshall, the secretary of state, [...]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should take comfort in the fact that he is not up for a sixth term until 2014 because a plurality of Kentucky’s voters disapprove of the job he is doing in representing the state and his role as GOP leader, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted June 28-30. [...]