Gordon (forced to retire, 2010) Bobby Bright (removed, 2010) Dan Boren (cutting and running, 2012) Gene Taylor (removed, 2010) Heath Shuler (cutting and running, 2012) Joe Donnelly (switching out to lose Senate race, 2012) John Barrow (going out...

According to the political scientists Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have devised a widely used system to measure the ideology of members of Congress, when Obama took office there was no ideological overlap between the two parties. In the...

Cummings probably rates just high enough to be worthy of a mention here: She dropped out of the Senate race and endorse businessman Tim Burns instead. Not exactly a move that's going to have a major impact, though, since her campaign was going nowhere.

He was elected as a pro-gun, anti-abortion social conservative who voted against the health care reform bill and the stimulus package. His failed campaign in 2010 showed him as a Democrat not buying into the Democratic platform. Bobby Bright labeled...

Peterson's career. I wish we could help-- I really, really do. America would be a far better, and far healthier, place if his career ended. But these civic-minded souls had no idea how to defeat him. They asked if we could put a campaign together like...

Although both districts lean Republican in presidential preference, the 5th District of north Alabama had for many years been represented by a Democrat. And Roby won in 2010 by a slim margin over Rep. Bobby Bright, D-Montgomery. A spokesman for the...