If Hillary Crashes, Will Joe Biden Join the Race?
It's time to ask a question, the answer to which we do not know: Will former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server scandal do fatal damage to her campaign?

It's time to ask a question, the answer to which we do not know: Will former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server scandal do fatal damage to her campaign?

The presidential half of the '12 ticket, however, had a very different declaration to make. The newfound willingness of Mitt Romney to "consider" a third candidacy for the White House stunned many observers; privately.

Well, that didn't last long! By that, we mean our pre-Christmas ordering of the GOP presidential field. We shouldn't be surprised. Politics never takes a long holiday break anymore.

After playing offense in 2014 and netting nine Senate seats to set up a 54-46 majority in the 114th Congress, Republicans will mostly be playing defense in 2016. That probably means the GOP will end up losing seats, but recent history suggests that we should not be certain about that.

With just a few days left to go in the campaign, the race is barely an afterthought: Republicans have already won the Senate, and there's simply no indication that Landrieu has much, if any, chance of winning.

After going over the results from last week, we had a number of bite-sized observations to offer — 14, to be exact.

The race for the Senate is perceptively moving in the Republicans' direction, but not so dramatically that we're ready to call the race definitively for them.

Think the Senate will be decided on Election Day, Nov. 4? Here are five reasons that may not be the case.

A Republican at the end of 1928 could look back on the previous few decades and smile: His party was quite clearly the dominant force in American politics.

If Republicans are to win the Senate, they probably are going to have to do something they haven't done since 1980: beat more than two Democratic Senate incumbents in November.
