Washington Post: Will Beau Run?

Long speculative piece from today's Washington Post. I found these comments from Jack Markell a little--incongruous: "He's not the type of guy who is going to let other people's timetables…

Biden In For Bumpy Ride?

In Sunday's News Journal, there's an article about Beau Biden and the possibility of him running. The article is tilted, "Senate run could distract Biden". Now, I normally like Esteban Para's writing, but not this time.

In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW

Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first: