[Leading Democrats were on Schwarzenegger’s side then. That collapsed this year. A series of proposals by the governor antagonized teachers, nurses, police officers and firefighters. Since March, they have run a barrage of TV spots...

Sooner or later, politics catches up with the Supreme Court. If Democrats are consistently losing elections, then our views and our values will be less represented on the court.

It’s playing on a familiar theme, a familiar theme for Republicans, that no matter what Democrats say, they are going to tax you.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

We’ve shocked the world, … Hopefully the Republicans and Democrats will take notice now. They will stop their partisan party politics and start doing what’s right for the people.

His recent statements and policy positions make it look like he’s trying to cut into the Democrats’ advantage among coastal voters. However, others are trying to get him to backtrack to shore up support among...

At one time the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women … [who] were progressive.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

When you look at who may win, Democrats or Republicans, I think it makes the case of stock selection and sector selection a little bit more important. You can see the weakness last week when...

The polls don’t show a huge difference among Democrats in how Latinos and non-Latinos would vote on the recall [of Davis], … Where they do show a difference is their preference among the candidates running,...

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: “Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

The fact is that Republicans have much more exposure to potential losses than do the Democrats in the Senate races. That President Bush’s job approval ratings are the lowest of his presidency, even in states...

You know it’s an election year in Washington when people try things like this. The Democrats are going through these gyrations of block and delay for the liberal interest groups who butter their bread.

Democrats realized the importance of mobilization [after 2000]. But they did not do the grassroots that might have made the difference in 2002. We’ll see whether or not they learn from that.