by Jim Heath | Sep 10, 2018 | 2018, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Most Capitol Hill Republicans will concede, at least in private conversations, that the House is lost. They fully expect to lose the majority on election day, and for Democrats to be in charge come January. In fact, hiring is going on right now at lobbying firms for...
by Jim Heath | Nov 7, 2016 | Battlegrounds, Book Excerpts, Headlines
Sen. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election, defeating vice president Richard Nixon, but he did not carry the battleground state of Ohio. And it bothered him every time he thought about it. As I wrote in my book Front Row Seat at the Circus: The day after...
by Jim Heath | Nov 2, 2016 | Battlegrounds, Electoral Map, Headlines
Florida. The granddaddy of battleground states. It may be the “Sunshine State,” but every four years it is actually the “Where Presidential Candidates Spend Most Of Their Time State.” With it’s 29 electoral votes, it is the make-or-break...
by Jim Heath | Nov 1, 2016 | Battlegrounds, Endorsements, Headlines
Ohio Gov. John Kasich voted early and wrote in the name of the 2008 Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain. “Donald Trump is a man I cannot and should not support,” said Kasich earlier this month. “It has been an accumulation of his words...
by Jim Heath | Oct 26, 2016 | Ads, Battlegrounds, Headlines
The voice of God has spoken. Actor Morgan Freeman, who has portrayed God twice in the movies, has voiced Hillary Clinton’s “closing argument” ad which underscores her campaign message that children are looking to the next president as a role model,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 25, 2016 | Battlegrounds, Headlines
Only once in modern times — George Bush in 1988 — has the same political party won three national presidential elections in a row. History was on the Republicans side in 2016, all they had to do was nominate a candidate who could appeal to women voters,...
