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Archive: Odds and Ends
Fundraising Winners and Losers
The Fix spent much of the weekend -- yes, I know I am a political dork -- scouring hundreds of financial filings by incumbents and candidates for the House and Senate. Fundraising strength is the best early indicator of candidates'...
By Chris Cillizza | July 17, 2007; 11:42 AM ET | Comments (99)
Republicans' Fundraising Peril
Lost amid the focus on presidential fundraising in the final week of the second quarter was the release of financial figures for the first five months of the year by the four congressional committees. The numbers are -- frankly --...
By Chris Cillizza | June 25, 2007; 01:10 PM ET | Comments (44)
France: It's Sarkozy vs. Royal
French voters turned out in droves for Sunday's presidential election, but the high number of voters didn't affect the expected results: Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal advanced to a second round of voting. Sarkozy, who hails from the same center-right...
By Chris Cillizza | April 22, 2007; 06:56 PM ET | Comments (39)
French Style Politics
The Fix spends most of his time focused like a laser on American politics, but occasionally the eye wanders across the ocean to presidential elections in other countries. The more worldly of Fix readers know that Sunday marks the first...
By Chris Cillizza | April 21, 2007; 10:52 PM ET | Comments (52)
Eight Big Issues That Will Decide the Election
With one month to go before the midterm elections, we've made some changes to the Post's Bellwether Project -- our attempt to define the issues and factors that will decide the election. We've added a few late movers, dropping some...
By Chris Cillizza | October 12, 2006; 09:35 AM ET | Comments (53)
Labor's Love Lost?
The past two years have not been the best for the labor movement. In 2004, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D), who carried the strong backing of the AFL-CIO, came up short in his challenge to President George W. Bush. Then...
By Chris Cillizza | August 22, 2006; 10:49 AM ET | Comments (25)
Maryland's Political Clambake
Who was J. Millard Tawes? A Democrat, Tawes served as governor of Maryland from 1959 to 1967. He was born in Crisfield in 1894 and died there in 1979. At the time of his death, The Post's David Maraniss wrote:...
By Chris Cillizza | July 19, 2006; 07:25 AM ET | Comments (5)
A Few Political Nuggets for the Weekend
* Do yourself a favor and read Dan Eggen's blockbuster piece in today's Washington Post in which he reports on a Justice Department memo from 2003 in which six lawyers and two analysts unanimously agreed that the Texas congressional redistricting...
By Chris Cillizza | December 2, 2005; 05:22 PM ET | Comments (20)
Cheney On the Hunt
It's Election Day. Do you know where Vice President Dick Cheney is? The Fix does. The Vice President landed in Pierre, South Dakota, last night for his fifth annual hunting trip in the state. This time he is hunting near...
By Chris Cillizza | November 8, 2005; 04:38 PM ET | Comments (7)
