Inside CPAC
updated: Fri Feb 11 2011 17:53:00
CNN's Jim Acosta goes behind the scenes at CPAC, talking to politicians in the hallways about their ambitions.
With the final results in from all but a few heated races, what may have been obvious to some is now proven with numbers: media attention doesn't guarantee victory. In some cases it may even be damaging. Although the GOP gained a majority in the House, many of the party's most talked-about candidates lost.
Billions of dollars poured into political ads this election cycle, and they weren't just negative commercials, or attack ads, but messages of searing personal indictment. The question is: Did they work?
Democratic Senate nominee Jack Conway defends his religion-themed ad against his opponent, GOP Senate nominee Rand Paul.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid basked in his re-election Wednesday after Nevada voters helped him turn back a challenge from a Tea Party-backed Republican he painted as too extreme for the state.
Authorities in Kansas investigate a claim of voter intimidation. Josh Levs reports from CNN's Voting Irregularity desk.
Republicans and Democrats traded complaints of foul play in a handful of states in Tuesday's midterm elections, while sporadic computer glitches or electrical problems caused minor delays in others.
Even though the American elections won't be decided until the polls close tonight, the Irish bookies late last week started paying off bettors who predicted Republicans would win a majority in the House of Representatives. And they stopped making new bets. That's a pretty definite statement!
Anderson Cooper and John King use virtual technology and the election matrix to analyze the upcoming midterm elections.
Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle on Friday night declared "there is going to be shock and awe in Washington" after the election.
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle says in a campaign ad that Democratic incumbent Harry Reid is the "best friend an illegal alien ever had." According to her, he tolerates illegal people "sneaking" across the border and receiving "illegal Social Security benefits."
Sarah Palin thinks that if the Republican Party doesn't totally embrace the Tea Party movement, it might as well consider itself "through" as an organizing entity.
Conservative radio host Dana Loesh says mainstream Republicans should follow the Tea Party agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and GOP rival Sharron Angle debate health care, Social Security and taxes.
The debate in the nation's marquee Senate race was probably the dullest thing that happened in Las Vegas on Thursday night.
Editor's note: There are 18 days to go before voters cast ballots in the hotly contested midterm elections. In this special feature, CNN's political contributors share their quick thoughts on what's making news.
Both sides landed some punches, but there didn't seem to be a knockout in the high-stakes debate Thursday night between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sharron Angle.
Editor's note: There are 27 days to go before voters cast ballots in the hotly contested midterm elections. In this special feature, CNN's political contributors share their quick thoughts on what's making news.
Sharron Angle was caught on tape trying to persuade a third-party candidate to drop out of the Nevada Senate race.
Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle urged third party candidate Scott Ashjian to pull out of the race at a meeting last week, saying his campaign could result in re-election for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, according to an audio tape of the meeting recorded by Ashjian.
CNN's Candy Crowley looks at whether Tea Party candidates' success is giving Democrats a boost in the upcoming midterm elections.
It's one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country -- and for good reason. Majority Leader Harry Reid stands to lose his job representing Nevada -- one he's held since 1987 -- to Republican Sharron Angle, a Tea Party favorite.
When a scuffle broke out at a candidate forum in Nevada last week between supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican rival Sharron Angle, the fight didn't end after tempers cooled. It simply moved over to the social media website Twitter, where the war of words in this nasty race continued.
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet.
Before anyone ever heard of the Tea Party movement, there was a grass-roots conservative group from out West that shook up the political status quo.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has taken a seven-point lead over Republican opponent Sharron Angle, according to a new poll published Friday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
President Barack Obama wrapped up a two-state campaign swing Friday, stumping for embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid while talking up the economy in a speech at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
President Obama campaigns for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who faces a tough re-election fight in Nevada.
CNN's Candy Crowley talks to two senators about how Tea Partiers are impacting the GOP Senate races.
The handful of Tea Party-backed candidates who've had successful primary wins now face an ideological dilemma -- and potential backlash -- as they retool for a general election campaign.
Republican Sharron Angle told supporters at her victory speech that Sen. Harry Reid has "failed" and should be "fired."
As Sharron Angle celebrated her win in Nevada's Republican Senate primary, she praised the Tea Party activists who backed her campaign and vowed to return the country to its constitutional principles.
Today's newspapers, websites, and cable news programs imply that yesterday's election results signal remarkable progress for women in politics.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas won the Democratic primary Tuesday, beating back a challenge from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, whose campaign was fueled by unions and liberal activists.
A conservative Republican candidate, whose critics said was too outside the mainstream to win, won Nevada's Republican Senate primary.
Leaders of the Tea Party Express marked Tax Day on Thursday by celebrating their efforts over the last year and unveiling a list of "heroes" and "targets" ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
The "Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out" tour begins in Washington
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