Just over a week ago, third-placed Democratic presidential candidate, ex-Sen. John Edwards, broke with tradition and went to campaign in… Montana. It was an odd move, but perhaps also a savvy one. After all, Edwards’s advisers are surely aware that…

In the wake of Republican Sen. John Warner’s retirement announcement just over a week ago, focus has shifted away from the Senate maverick to another outside-the-mold Warner of Virginia politics — Democratic ex-Gov. Mark Warner. Speculation has been rife for…

The American public was greeted this week with the latest in Republican scandal, when news emerged that Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho recently pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges related to his apparent solicitation of gay sex in the Minneapolis…