If getting Maine Senator Olympia Snowe to offer some semblance of Republican (and hence, bipartisan) support for the health care reform bill was an almost impossible task, wait until you see the gargantuan mountain Democrats have to climb now: keeping Snowe on board. more...

The all-too hasty response to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Award seems to focus on the wrong aspect: "but he'd only been president for 11 days at the nomination cutoff!" and "he hasn't done anything of value on the internationl stage since becoming president!" Republicans love to take aim at the liberal bias of the nominating committee, claiming Obama won simply because he wasn't George Bush. more...

Creigh Deeds, the former state senator and current Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia, is falling further behind Republican Attorney General Bob McDonnell. Though the Democrat has trailed for much of the race, he'd closed the gap at various points. Now, however, it looks as though McDonnell is pulling away. more...

After trailing Republican challenger Christopher Christie consistently since February, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has turned on the after burners. And following months of speculation that Corzine- a former Senator now running for a second term in the Governor's mansion- is headed for reelection. more...

With Montana Democrat Max Baucus' Senate Finance Committee set to pass its version of the health care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will have to perform a tightrope act to reconcile that legislation with the version passed by the Senate Health, Pensions, and Labor Committee during the summer. more...