Kyle Bell

The state of Indiana has lost a statesman today. Voters went to the polls to unseat incumbent Senator Dick Lugar, who has served in the Senate since 1977, in a low-turnout primary where fewer than 20 percent of eligible voters participated. Lugar was the mayor of Indianapolis prior to his election to the Senate. His [...]

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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum accomplished two important wins in the Deep South on Tuesday – one in Alabama and the other in Mississippi – that denied front-runner Mitt Romney the opportunity to finish up the nasty GOP primary fight. While Romney’s aides publicly state that it would take an “act of God” for Santorum [...]

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New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann has a great piece this week on the GOP primary race thus far. He writes about the rightward drift of the Republican Party, the struggles that “front-runner” Mitt Romney has had to curry favor with the Tea Party base, and Santorum’s rise as his primary conservative challenger. In Heilemann’s own [...]

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Mitt Romney’s win tonight doesn’t say much about what will happen in the rest of the South. North Florida went for Gingrich and is more in line with places like Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. This isn’t just a theory, either. South Carolina already voted for Gingrich over Romney in decisive fashion. The Peach State and [...]

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After a moderately tame primary season things are starting to heat up. Newt Gingrich decided to not go negative in Iowa after being nuked with vicious ads from Mitt Romney paid for with secret donors. The result was a stunning reversal of fortunes. Within a matter of weeks Gingrich plummeted from first in the polls [...]

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Senator John Thune of South Dakota declared on Tuesday that he would not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2012. The “rising star” in the Republican Party, as he is often called, would have had a decent shot at winning the party’s nomination. Personally, I had my bets on him. Unlike Palin, Romney, [...]

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9:10 p.m. (9/15): Lamontagne has conceded the race for the GOP’s Senate nomination. In other news from yesterday’s primaries, a new poll out of Delaware shows that Democrat Chris Coons leads Republican Christine O’Donnell 50-34. That’s a bigger lead than he had in previous polls and may seem to indicate that even some Mike Castle [...]

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Early results out of New Hampshire are shaping up well for the Tea Party: Lamontagne – 52.9% (5,584) Ayotte – 31.7% (3,346) Binnie – 7.7% (814) Bender – 6.6% (694) Lamare – 0.7% (76) 5% of precincts reporting var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.politico.com\/2010\/maps\/#\/Senate\/2010\/NH"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDEwLzA5LzE0L3RlYS1wYXJ0eS1jYW5kaWRhdGUtbGVhZHMtaW4tbmV3LWhhbXBzaGlyZS88d3B0Yj5UZWEgUGFydHkgQ2FuZGlkYXRlIExlYWRzIGluIE5ldyBIYW1wc2hpcmU8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8va3lsZWJlbGwuY29tPHdwdGI%2BS3lsZSBCZWxs”;

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Today is primary day in several states across the nation. Among them are two highly important Senate primaries in Delaware and New Hampshire. Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell led the more moderate Mike Castle in the most recent polling out of the state, 47 to 44, although it was within the margin of error. This [...]

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Joe Miller, a political unknown supported by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, is leading Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary by 3 points. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Miller is ahead with 51.45% (45,188 votes) to Murkowski’s 48.55% (42,633 votes). While Miller is on-track to defeating Murkowski, the race remains undecided [...]

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