Several Illinois Democrats make National Review’s ‘Most Likely to Lose’ List

5/6/2010 “Ranking Those 99 House Races By Degree of Difficulty for GOP Challengers” By Jim Geraghty – National Review Here are my 99 races, grouped into five levels of difficulty. I’ve used three different measurements of difficulty – the Department of Homeland Security’s old color code alert system, a comparable degree of difficulty to beating [...]

Roskam Statement on April Unemployment Numbers

5/7/2010 Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), Deputy Whip and Ways and Means Committee member, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the national unemployment rate rose in April to 9.9%: “While this Administration promised the American people that a trillion dollar stimulus bill would keep unemployment under 8%, today the national unemployment rate [...]

Obama’s home-state headache

5/7/2010 By Ben Smith and Manu Raju – Politico President Barack Obama’s enemies like to call him a creature of the “Chicago machine,” but when it comes to the politics of his home state of Illinois, the White House doesn’t seem to know where the gears are. Indeed, Chicago has delivered an unending stream of [...]