Democrats have over a 50 percent probability of losing in seven Senate races in this year’s midterm elections, cutting deeply into their current 59-member majority, according to the latest forecast by polling analyst and statistical guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. (Two of the members counted in that current majority are independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut [...]
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, who was convicted of one of 24 counts in his corruption trial, rolled out a long list of top Democratic names on Sunday he said he’d call as witnesses in a retrial, and predicted there’s a “potential political comeback” in his future. Blagojevich claimed vindication when a jury found [...]
What recovery? Unemployment remains high and manufacturing is moving slowly, two signs that the U.S. economy will see more dark days ahead, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said the economy faces a tough recovery from the recession, although the office did predict three percent economic growth this year, Reuters [...]
LIVINGSTON, La. — Dr. Ivor van Heerden, the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, was one of several experts to presciently predict the disastrous consequences – including catastrophic levee failure – if a major hurricane were to hit the New Orleans area. “Louisiana is a terminally ill patient requiring major surgery,” van [...]
A month after losing his re-election bid, Utah Sen. Bob Bennett made a candid speech to a Republican think tank, criticizing his own party for its lack of ideas but still predicting big gains by the GOP in November. Bennett told The Ripon Society that Republicans will win back control of the House this year [...]
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