Ken Rudin appears in the following:
The 2014 Midterms: The Open Races to Watch
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
2014 Midterm Elections Heat Up
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
It's The Final ScuttleButton Puzzle ... For Now
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Some words I never thought I would utter: This is the last ScuttleButton puzzle that will ever appear on the NPR Web site.
With the cancellation of Talk of the Nation, and of course the weekly Political Junkie segment that goes with it, the long relationship between Political Junkie and ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The sad thing about this week's ScuttleButton puzzle is that Edward Snowden has already revealed the answer.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Tuesday or Wednesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take ...
Lautenberg Death Complicates Christie's Road To November, And 2016
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
One of the last things Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel did before he resigned to join the Nixon Cabinet was to fill a Senate vacancy caused by the December 1968 death of E.L. Bartlett, a Democrat. Hickel picked a GOP state representative by the name of Ted Stevens. Stevens, who only ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
It's time to solve this week's ScuttleButton puzzle.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Tuesday or Wednesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take one word (or concept) per button, add 'em up, ...
Virginia Lt. Gov. Nominee Excites The Right, And Democrats Couldn't Be Happier
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
It's taken awhile, but Tea Party activists and social conservatives are finally beginning to get smiles on their faces. Whether that will last through the November election is another story.
After watching their insufficiently conservative (in their view) presidential nominee lose last November, their opposition to taxing-the-rich fall by the ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Just a reminder that there is a possibility ScuttleButton may disappear from the NPR Web site in the next month or so. So if I were you, I'd sign up for the Political Junkie mailing list (info below) to make sure you'll be in the know as to where these ...
Why Don't We Pay (More/Any) Attention To Los Angeles Mayoral Elections?
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Horace Greeley may have suggested at one point that going west might be a good idea, but he probably wouldn't be happy to see what's going on with Los Angeles as of late. The Dodgers are in last place in the National League West, the Angels are hovering near the ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
We know how the president feels about it. "We don't have time to be playing these kinds of political games in Washington," Barack Obama said on Monday, in what many took to be a full attack on ScuttleButton, America's favorite political game.
I beg to differ. I say we DO ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Disgraced but asking for redemption.
I'm describing me, of course, after a spate of uneven ScuttleButton puzzles. Though, I must admit, I liked last week's offering.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday — or, as they call today, "Wednesday" — ...
Joe Biden Has History On His Side But Little Else If Hillary Clinton Runs
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
It's pretty much a truism in American political history: If the president is not running again and the vice president wants his party's nomination, it's his for the asking.
That was the case in 1960, with President Eisenhower term-limited and Vice President Richard Nixon's path to the GOP nomination unimpeded.
...Open Democratic Senate Seats Again Give Big Opportunity For GOP, Or Not
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The headlines have not been especially kind to Senate Democrats lately as they, for the second consecutive cycle, head into an election with a numerical disadvantage and more open seats to defend.
But looking at an election by simply counting the number of seats up that year or where incumbents ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
An openly gay basketball player? Next thing you know, there will be openly clever ScuttleButton puzzles.
Only not this week.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Lots of people have been inquiring about the future of ScuttleButton. While I wish I had an answer — I don't, not yet — I'd like to suggest that you sign up for the Political Junkie/ScuttleButton mailing list. That way, I will be able to share the information once I ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Friday, April 19, 2013
Hopefully, the disappointment/frustration of that April Fool's ScuttleButton has subsided and now you're ready for the real stuff.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply ...
Sanford And Weiner: Different Humiliations, Same Remorseful Script
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In the past three decades or so, when writing about political sex scandals became an art form, the tendency has always been to lump everyone together. There are many differences between, say, what Anthony Weiner did and what Mark Sanford did. And, while we're at it, what John Edwards and ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Monday, April 01, 2013
I'm on vacation this week, and thus no Political Junkie column, Talk of the Nation appearance or podcast for me. But giving up ScuttleButton? No way.
ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday I put up a vertical display of buttons ...
It's ScuttleButton Time!
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
In the thousand-plus or so emails I get each time a ScuttleButton puzzle is posted, I invariably will get dozens and dozens of complaints that it was just too easy, that it insulted their intelligence, that I need to make them more challenging. That was clearly the case last week, ...
Is It 2016 Yet? Moves By Hillary Clinton & Rand Paul Suggest Yes
Monday, March 25, 2013
If you have any interest in politics at all, you pretty much know two things. One, that the next presidential election, on Nov. 8, 2016, is only 1,324 days away. And two, you won't be surprised if people are focusing on it in March of 2013.
Sometimes the speculation is ...