October 10, 2018 BRUCE MEHLMAN PREDICTS DC DISRUPTION WITH UPCOMING MIDTERM ELECTIONS The Daily Caller By Evie Fordham Disruption is coming to Washington, D.C., thanks to the upcoming midterm election, a “fraught” lame duck session and a rookie 116th Congress, Republican strategist Bruce Mehlman argued Monday. Read the full article »
Kavanaugh slugfest could boost GOP in midterms, as polls show voter interest rising Fox News By Gregg Re Political headwinds normally work against the party of incumbent presidents in their first midterm elections. According to an analysis by former George W. Bush administration official Bruce Mehlman, in the past 11 such midterm seasons, new presidents saw their party make net gains only once in the House, four times in the Senate and zero times in state gubernatorial contests. Read the full article »
Kavanaugh fight foreshadows a wild lame-duck session and crazy 2019 in Congress The Washington Post By James Hohmann Republican lobbyist Bruce Mehlman warned clients in a presentation this week (entitled “The Chaos Continues”) that the lame-duck session between the November elections and the swearing-in of the new Congress in January could be especially fraught. “We may all miss October come December,” Mehlman told me yesterday. He thinks Nov. 6 is “merely the five-mile marker in the marathon,” and that “a huge hill is approaching.” Here are four questions Mehlman outlined: Read the full article »
October 9, 2018 GOP’s gender gap problem Axios By Mike Allen This was a striking graphic that David Nather spotted in a recent slide deck by Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas. It shows how rapidly women have drifted away from the Republican Party since the 2016 election — opening up a lopsided preference for Democrats to control Congress in just the last few months. Read the full article »
There’s Life Beyond the Hill but When Do You Explore It? Roll Call By Alex Gangitano When people tell David Thomas they want to leave the Hill, he asks them to be sure they’ve thought the decision through. “The first thing I always ask is, ‘Are you truly ready? Are you going to miss being in the center of the action?’” he said. Thomas, 47, a partner at Mehlman, Castagnetti, Rosen & Thomas, left the Hill over a decade ago. He started out as an intern for Al Gore, when he served as a Tennessee senator, and he was California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s chief of staff for four years. Read the full article »
September 13, 2018 App store challenge among first tech cases likely to go before Kavanaugh The Washington Examiner By Steven Nelson Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is poised for a lifetime shaping the nation’s laws, and no area is more likely to see movement than technology as justices wrestle with how the Constitution applies to modern devices. Read the full article »
September 4, 2018 Axios Sneak Peek Axios By Mike Allen Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas has found a new way to measure House Republicans’ peril: “vulnerability ratio” (net number of seats at risk vs. number needed to flip). Read the full article »
August 3, 2018 What Republicans have going for them heading into midterms Fox News By Dana Perino Bruce Mehlman Discusses what Republicans have going for them heading into midterms. Read the full article »
Midterms in the Age of Disruption By Bruce Mehlman Mehlman Castagnetti Infographics: Midterms in the Age of Disruption Read the full article »
July 30, 2018 Wildcards Republicans need to watch out for heading into the 2018 midterms Politics Inside and Out With Chris Frates By Chris Frates Bruce Mehlman and David Castagnetti discuss their new report “Midterms in the Age of Disruption: What to Expect in the 2018 Elections.” Read the full article »
Wildcards Democrats need to watch out for heading into the 2018 midterms Politics Inside and Out With Chris Frates By Chris Frates Bruce Mehlman and David Castagnetti discuss their new report “Midterms in the Age of Disruption: What to Expect in the 2018 Elections.” Read the full article »
A look at Wave Indicators heading into the 2018 midterms Politics Inside and Out With Chris Frates By Chris Frates Bruce Mehlman and David Castagnetti discuss their new report “Midterms in the Age of Disruption: What to Expect in the 2018 Elections.” Read the full article »