Anti-Incumbent Politics

Lakeway City Council officeholders Bruce Harris, Dave Taylor and Dee Ann Burns-Farrell fended off challenges by Anita Cokins and Kay Sconci to unseat them in the May 12 election. Harris and Taylor secured somewhat comfortable leads in early voting and during today’s election, but Cokins made a serious push to bump Burns-Farrell from the third open [...]  

Greeks angered by a vicious and protracted financial crisis punished the parties that have dominated politics for decades Sunday, with projected election results showing them hemorrhaging support to anti-bailout groups and no party gaining enough ballots to form a government. Responding quick...  

Cahill faced a fine line on government advertising In politics, all the world’s a campaign stage - particularly for incumbents. Officeholders enjoy the advantage of hitching their names to good works in newspaper and television ads, in government printings, at public events - all in the name of informing the public. With the indictment of former state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill for allegedly misusing State Lottery advertising to benefit his...  

JEFFERSON CITY — Redrawn voting maps for the Missouri General Assembly shifted numerous lawmakers into the same districts, but maneuvering since then will result in relatively few voters being asked to decide between incumbent legislators in primary elections this year. Leery of knocking off a sitting lawmaker and possibly dividing loyalties among fellow lawmakers in Jefferson City, legislative leaders worked to forestall any budding political...  

The challenges to Republican incumbents Bucshon and Murphy (and to Michigan Rep. Fred Upton) are overwhelmingly ideological, not anti-incumbent. Elsewhere, in Tennessee, freshman Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, who won the 2010 open-seat GOP primary with only 30 ...  

Still, provisional ballots have yet to be counted and one voter may call for an outside audit of the election after a ballot box was opened during the middle of voting Tuesday. Related: Complete election coverage  

The evening hasn’t started out smoothly for Duncanville’s mayor. David Green, who was elected mayor in 2004, is trailing challenger Deborah Hodge in early voting although the vote difference was small. Backers of the mayor had been particularly ...  

I'm reminded of Javits by Indiana's six-term Sen. Dick Lugar, who just lost his primary challenge to Richard Mourdock, an event Tea Party activists say show the movement remains alive and well. The truth is that Lugar, 80, should have announced ...  

Dennis Kucinich. Meanwhile, in the race for Pennsylvania's 12th district, a House incumbent is sure to lose: The race pits Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire against Democratic Rep. Mark Critz. The two incumbents have been forced to run against each ...  

The reason centers mostly on retail politics rather than a perception of a do-nothing Legislature. When ongoing feuds between the parties escalate and a stalemate breaks out, legislators are generally trapped at the Capitol and unable to meet ...  

An unusual new super PAC that targets lawmakers from both parties now has a Virginian in its sites: Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D). The Campaign for Primary Accountability, as the Washington Post detailed earlier this month, goes after incumbents ...  

Christian PostReligion and politics at Liberty UniversityWashington PostMitt Romney is the latest politician to make a pilgrimage to the flagship Christian university. The late Rev. Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., in 1971 "with a vision to train Champions for Christ." The school has more than ...BuzzFeed Politics Distorts Facts to Smear Liberty University StudentsBig HollywoodLiberty University President: Romney...  

Christy Clark leaves politics at home for Asia trade missionMontreal GazetteVICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark says she doesn't want her second trade mission to Asia to be about politics. However, given that an election is on the horizon and the trip is linked to a central part of her party's platform — creating jobs — it's ...Clark off to Asia to drum up workThe Provinceall 17 news articles »  

No politics behind this pilots agitation: Jitendra AwhadBusiness Standard (blog)There is no politics behind this agitation. The issue regarding pilot training on Boeing 787 plane has been going on since the past year and we have been fighting for it since then. We moved the Bombay HC on the issue over six months ago.and more »  

The GuardianKobe Bryant finishes fourth in MVP votingESPN (blog)Just behind Paul was Kobe Bryant, who earned two first place votes and edged out Tony Parker in the voting. Whether some Lakers fans see this as a slight, I don't know (ok, I do know). To me a fourth place finish is remarkable accomplishment.Rose finishes 10th in MVP votingCSNChicago.comThunder's Kevin Durant finishes 2nd in MVP for 2nd time, focused on winning ...Washington...  

Portland Politics Are as Quirky as the City ItselfABC NewsThat's politics in a city where the main attraction is culture as opposed to commerce or landmarks. Food carts, fixed-gear bicycles, pot shops and craft beer make Portland a magnet for the young, hip and liberal. But it's still a major city with all ...and more »  

Boston.comBeing in politics means having to say you're sorryBoston.comWASHINGTON—It's a sorry list. This week's apologies from Mitt Romney and Joe Biden are just the latest in a colorful history of politicians regretting personal lapses large and small. A few recent notables: ------ MITT ROMNEY: The presumptive ...and more »  

John Feehery, spokesman to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, said he looks for those flags by studying a member’s voting behavior. “You can always tell that a politician is in trouble on the big votes when he only wants to talk about the ...  

It came as a shock when House Republicans learned that a PAC affiliated with Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia had donated $25,000 to a group devoted to taking out incumbents.  

The Campaign for Primary Accountability, a super-PAC solely dedicated to defeating longtime incumbents of both parties, will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars against Reps. Read more...  

Europe is braced for an election bonanza this that will determine the politics of the increasingly contested campaign to save the single currency.