John McCain uncorked a new stump speech today in which he accuses overconfident Dems and their man Barack Obama of already "measuring the drapes" at the White House. This is a tactic that's been tried ...

A couple weeks ago, President Bush said the Democrats were overconfident about an election victory, saying they were already "measuring the drapes." But the day after midterm elections, the president ...

Sen. John McCain, trailing in national polls with just three weeks until the presidential election, warned in a new stump speech at a campaign rally Monday that his opponent is already “measuring the ...

With only a few weeks left in his struggling 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain pulled out an old political chestnut. The Republican senator told a Virginia crowd, “The national media has written ...

A new sign of a flailing President Biden being abandoned and overlooked by his Democratic Party is the increased public exposure of leftist figures seen as potential successors in what would be a rare ...

Jumping the gun a bit before the election returns are in, Politico profiles Michigan Rep. Fred Upton as he “measures the drapes” to take over the House Energy and Commerce Committee, if Texas Rep. Joe ...

The conventional wisdom says that President Obama and his campaign team are exceedingly confident about the 2012 race, to the point of nearly being cocky. But Obama isn't the one already selling ...

As both parties poured money and campaign workers into 50 hotly contested races, polls showed Democrats with a good chance of taking control of the House of Representatives for the first time since ...

MORAVIA | John Katko doesn't have the drapes picked out yet, but he knows where his Cayuga County office will be located if he beats U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei in November. At a town hall meeting Tuesday ...

WE WRITE today in praise of drape-measuring. Early preparation for a presidential transition is essential to a successful launch of any presidency, and this transition will be more challenging -- more ...