Chris Matthews predicts: "Most people will vote for the Democratic ticket in Virginia simply to avoid voting in the fringe." Read More

Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam said IRS official Lois Lerner's statement to Congress that she had "done nothing wrong" in the agency's targeting of conservative groups was a "big mistake." Read More

Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta said the Obama administration made the right decision not to tell the president about the ongoing investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Read More

State shopping usually doesn't work out well for a hopeful pol, with carpetbagger charges writing themselves, and tenuous ties to a state are easy for opponents to attack. Read More

In Virginia, E.W. Jackson, the nominee for lieutenant governor, is grabbing headlines for his history of extreme comments. Read More

The city councilman, who will be the city's first Jewish mayor, defeated fellow Democrat Wendy Greuel in Tuesday’s runoff election, bringing an end to the bitter, two year long race. Read More

Tea Party groups hope the scandal at the IRS fires up their base the same way as heath care reform did in 2010, plus other political stories that are driving our day. Read More

The former congressman, disgraced by a Twitter scandal in 2011, announces his plans to run for mayor of New York City in a web ad released early Wednesday. Read More

Check with NBCNews.com for the very latest on the devastation in Oklahoma. Governor Mary Fallin and state officials are expected to give updates on the victims… Read More

The full Senate will now get to debate and vote on a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. But a provision allowing same-sex couples to apply for visas for spouses or partners was dropped. Read More

More than six months after declaring on election night that "we've got to fix" long lines at the polls, President Obama announced the members of his commission on election administration Tuesday. Read More

Oklahoma, now is a very good time to get to know the two men who represent you in the Senate — because they’re playing politics with your disaster relief. Read More

Kentucky’s Sen. Mitch McConnell has seized on the IRS scandal as he heads into a 2014 reelection bid, a move that may help him shore up support on the right. Read More

The nomination of E.W. Jackson during Saturday’s Virginia GOP convention is about to make an already lively off-year contest in the Old Dominion even more interesting. Read More

The Republican governor and his family say New Jersey is "stronger than the storm," but critics have accused him of using federal taxpayer dollars to boost his political image. Read More

The chief White House lawyer learned last month that the Inspector General at the Treasury Department had finished his audit of the IRS, and its heightened… Read More

Many key mayoral posts around the country will all be up for grabs this year--some for the first time in a generation. Ones to watch: New York City, Detroit, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Minneapolis. Read More

If you feel like you lost track of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann since her failed 2012 presidential bid, this has been the week to remedy that. With 17 months until the 2014 midterm election, Bachmann is out with her first campaign ad. The subject? Obamacare! Read More

The long-time senator from Maine engaged in Congress' fight outside the institution because she didn't think there was a way to alter the political equation from the inside, she said during an Afternoon Mo Joe web-exclusive interview. Read More