"Axelrod is endeavoring not to panic." So reads a sentence in John Heilemann's exhaustive article on Barack Obama's campaign in this week's New York magazine.
On this matter of offering federal jobs to potential candidates to induce them not to run against Senate Democratic incumbents, this White House is drifting dangerously close to the falls.
Colorado's Andrew Romanoff has now confirmed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina trolled three federal jobs in front of him, if he would desist and not run against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: February 9, 2011 3:55 AM
All eyes will be on Washington this weekend when the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meets and conducts its Republican presidential nomination straw poll.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 31, 2011 3:55 AM
While U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has said he has no intention of running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, other candidates seem more than willing to take his place as one of the conservative favorites in the field.
By: Kevin Derby
| Posted: January 21, 2011 3:55 AM
Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to Democrats at the national level, released a poll Thursday that had President Barack Obama leading the major Republican presidential candidates.
