Maeve Reston
Maeve Reston is a former Los Angeles Times political reporter who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Before joining The Times in 2006, Reston covered education and the Texas Legislature at the Austin American Statesman, as well as Congress and the 2004 presidential campaign for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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McCain aides talk about the Republican vice presidential nominee’s wardrobe controversy and other issues.
Joni Ernst’s feat this week was one that many thought was impossible: a Republican victory in a blue state that Obama won twice, and the first woman ever elected to Congress from Iowa.
After investing millions of dollars in data, analytics and their ground game in an attempt to avoid the bruising losses of the 2012 election cycle, Republicans faced a key test Tuesday: Could they match the Democrats’ vaunted turnout operation?
Riding a surge of voter discontent, Republicans seized control of the Senate on Tuesday, giving the GOP full command of Congress and promising a contentious final two years of the Obama administration.
Republican state Sen.
Riding a surge of voter discontent, Republicans seized control of the Senate on Tuesday, giving the GOP full command of Congress and promising a contentious final two years of the Obama administration.
In the heated battle for control of the U.S.
Hillary Rodham Clinton had been to town the night before to energize voters, and just that morning another good report on the economy had been released in Washington.
On her second trip to Iowa since her presidential caucus loss in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton got a piece of Iowa swag that could prove useful for her new grandchild -- and for Clinton herself if she runs in 2016: a black and gold University of Iowa sleeper emblazoned with the Hawkeye logo.
If there’s one consistent theme in this year’s midterm election, it’s that no one trusts the polls.