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January 6, 2009, 4:28 AM | Shane D'Aprile

Here’s a question Caroline Kennedy should be able to answer: Why do you want to be the next senator from New York? But, as some have pointed out in recent days, it’s the one question she’s having the most trouble answering, and it could spell the end of her Senate hopes. READ MORE

January 5, 2009, 7:27 PM | Politics magazine

This month's ethical dilemma: While doing due diligence, our researchers dug up some troubling information on our own candidate. Fortunately, it didn’t come out during the campaign. But it could be helpful—especially if I ever run a campaign against this particular candidate in the future. Should I destroy all sensitive records after my campaign is over? READ MORE

January 30, 2009, 6:00 PM | Shane D'Aprile

Friday’s voting to decide the next chairman of the Republican National Committee was a messy affair that took hours and left the impression that many Republicans are divided on where their party should head next.

January 27, 2009, 8:38 AM | Shane D'Aprile

“The untainted Republican has not yet been invented,” wrote Rahm Emanuel in Campaigns and Elections magazine in August of 1988. Parts of the article penned by the man who is now President Obama’s chief of staff were featured on Meet the Press and in the New York Times recently.

January 23, 2009, 3:37 PM | Shane D'Aprile

As more than one news outlet pointed out yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s 3 a.m. ad was voted the “Best TV Spot” of the 2008 cycle in a poll of Politics magazine readers. The spot won the approval of 31 percent of our readers in the internet survey conducted by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates.

January 20, 2009, 10:01 PM | Shane D'Aprile

For President Barack Obama, Tuesday was a day to showcase his rhetoric on his grandest stage to date. With an assist from his young speechwriter Jon Favreau, Obama penned an inaugural address laden with history and one that marked a clear break from the rhetoric of the past eight years.

January 2, 2009, 4:54 AM | Shane D'Aprile

Shaun Dakin over at the National Political Do-Not-Contact Registry has posted the picks for the worst, and the weirdest, robocalls of 2008. READ MORE

January 2, 2009, 3:46 AM | Christie Findlay

The 2008 cycle was like the Energizer Bunny ... It kept going, and going, and going. So there’s plenty to pick over in our search for the best and worst political moves of 2008. Here are my faves.

January 19, 2009, 4:03 AM | Brad Bannon

For Americans, support for Barack Obama’s economic stimulus program is less than the sum of its parts. Only a bare majority of Americans support the concept of a $775 billion package in its entirety, but about three in four Americans support most of the plan’s individual parts.