David Lightman

Local listings for Monday and Tuesday.

Residency controversies are dogging Senate candidates in several pivotal states: Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana and New Hampshire. Some list Washington, not the states that elect them, as their home addresses. Others moved into their states only recently, prompting criticism that they’re just using the states as a way to get to D.C.

Democrats are wasting no time trying to gain an edge from Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in a key birth control case.

Democrats and Republicans eagerly seized on Monday’s Supreme Court birth-control ruling as an important electoral momentum-builder, but it’s doubtful the decision will have a big impact on November’s congressional races.

Confidence in government has reached historic lows, according to a new Gallup survey, as 7 percent say they’re have confidence in Congress and 29 percent feel that way about the White House.

Mark Mayfield, a Mississippi Tea Party leader charged with conspiring with another man to photograph Sen. Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife, has died of an apparent suicide, according to the Associated Press.

Remember that Mississippi Republican Senate race, the one Sen. Thad Cochran won Tuesday? For challenger Chris McDaniel, it’s not over yet.

Most voters are unpredictable, frustrated and don’t cling to strong ideologies _ and they have the potential to strongly impact the 2014 political races, according to a new Pew Research Center study released Thursday.

Howard H. Baker Jr., the former Senate majority leader who wanted to know when President Richard Nixon knew about Watergate--and when he knew it--died Thursday.

Unpredictable, frustrated centrist voters—not the political parties’ attention-grabbing ideological wings—make up most of the electorate and have potential to have the most impact on 2014 races, according to a new Pew Research Center study released Thursday.

The biggest battles of the 2014 primary season are all but over, and Republicans still appear to be in good shape.

The Republican Party establishment once again won a big battle, this time in Mississippi. But it’s still facing a prolonged, bitter war with tea party insurgents.

Dallas and Cleveland are the finalists to host the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Rep. Charles Rangel survived another political test Tuesday.

_Sen. Thad Cochran, campaigning as the veteran voice of reason and experience, Tuesday narrowly defeated upstart challenger Chris McDaniel and the tea party movement that so passionately rallied behind him in a fiercely fought race for the Mississippi Republican Senate nomination.