Kyle Bell

President Obama’s re-election team is set to launch a record $25 million ad blitz in a number of swings states in the coming days, weeks and months. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida and Colorado will be the first targets – each of them states that Obama won in 2008, but [...]

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Final Thoughts: President Obama entered tonight’s speech with a new Republican Congress, but also an improving economy and approval ratings above 50%. The mood on Capitol Hill was somewhat sober with the recent events in Tucson looming over as a dark cloud. The president struck the right tone and set out priorities that have been [...]

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Last week Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2006. The reasons are more complicated than some would lead you to believe, but put simply, it was a mix of high unemployment, a huge money advantage for Republicans by corporate benefactors, dissatisfaction with Washington gridlock, and demographics in midterms [...]

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Arizona on Wednesday in the wake of last Saturday’s tragic shooting. The president spoke at a memorial service honoring the lives of those that were shot and killed. Below is a video: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDExLzAxLzEzL3ByZXNpZGVudC1vYmFtYS1zcGVha3MtYXQtYXJpem9uYS1tZW1vcmlhbC88d3B0Yj5QcmVzaWRlbnQgT2JhbWEgU3BlYWtzIGF0IEFyaXpvbmEgTWVtb3JpYWw8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8va3lsZWJlbGwuY29tPHdwdGI%2BS3lsZSBCZWxs”;

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Now that health care reform has passed both chambers of Congress and is going to be signed into law today by President Obama, the election year political messaging begins. A lot of attention has been given to the 17 House Democrats seeking re-election in districts John McCain won in 2008 after having voted for health [...]

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Democrats scored a major victory on Sunday night as the health care bill, which has been debated for over a year, has finally passed both chambers of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama shortly. The vote was 219 to 212 with zero Republicans voting in favor. It is [...]

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It was not a common phrase in our lexicon until recently. Only after a black man was nominated and eventually elected president did the term “socialism” resurface to describe the Democratic Party’s leader. Bill Clinton avoided the accusation, as well as Al Gore and John Kerry. “Liberal” or “far left radical” was sufficient for them. [...]

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Just a day after former senator Dan Coats announced his entrance into the Indiana Senate race, a poll shows that he has a lot of ground to make up before he can call himself a “current senator”. Incumbent Democrat Evan Bayh, who enjoys a 61% approval rating in the state, leads Coats by 20 points. [...]

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President Obama went full steam into the lion’s den on Friday as he joined Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. While he gave a speech that sounded similar themes to his State of the Union, such as a shared burden on solving America’s problems, he also took questions from House Republicans. It was [...]

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There are interesting new poll numbers out of the states of California and Illinois. Over the weekend, the Public Policy Institute of California released polling numbers for the upcoming June 8 primary both in the race for Governor and Senate. The Democrats are favored to win both races as Republicans beat each other up in [...]

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