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Daniel J. Balz is a journalist at The Washington Post, where he has been a political correspondent since 1978. Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the Washington Post’s Texas-based Southwest correspondent. Balz sometimes appears on the news show Meet the Press and frequently appears on the PBS program Washington Week. He is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, of the 1996 book Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival. In 1999, he received the American Political Science Association award for political coverage. Before coming to the Washington Post, he worked as a reporter and deputy editor for National Journal and as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was born in Freeport, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Illinois. He is married to Nancy Johnson Balz and they have one son.

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Energized Republican governors aim for majority

AUSTIN -- Republican governors wrapped up a two-day pep rally here on Thursday with an expression of confidence that the political winds have begun to shift in their direction, thanks to what they called a backlash among many voters against the ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Robert F McDonnell,  Christopher J. Christie

GOP bets on opposing reform

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill about health-care reform in November. (Charles Dharapak/AP) "All the anxiety's on the other side," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said with a smile earlier ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House

Poll finds deep divisions on health-care reform

As the Senate prepares to take up legislation aimed at overhauling the nation's health-care system, President Obama and the Democrats are still struggling to win the battle for public opinion. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans deeply ...

From DAN BALZ AND JON COHEN, The Washington Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Washington Post Company,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party

Sunday Take: Palin's book tour may indicate political future

Her ultimate ambitions remain a mystery. The opening stage of the tour for her book "Going Rogue" has been marked by the same qualities that have defined the public reaction to her since that morning in Ohio when she was announced as John McCain's ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  Lamar Alexander,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Newt Gingrich

The Take: Tim Pawlenty hasn't learned from Mitt Romney's 2008 mistakes

But the Pawlenty who has stepped onto the national stage in recent months has said and done things that have other Republicans wondering about his instincts and his sure-footedness as a prospective 2012 presidential candidate. Pawlenty could learn from ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Mitt Romney,  MSNBC,  Olympia Snowe,  Barack Obama

Republicans eye the way ahead

With gubernatorial victories by Robert F. McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, Republicans today are more energized than at any time since the early months of 2005, when there was talk of a durable Republican majority in the wake of ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Republican National Committee,  Barack Obama,  Robert F McDonnell

Gubernatorial contests serve as warning to Democrats

Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Robert F McDonnell

Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It's not 2008 anymore

Neither gubernatorial election amounted to a referendum on the president, but the changing shape of the electorates in both states and the shifts among key constituencies revealed cracks in the Obama 2008 coalition and demonstrated that, at this point, ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Robert F McDonnell,  Creigh Deeds

Heft in N.Y. special election

The GOP has held the district for more than a century. As a result of a surprise announcement on Saturday, Republicans are likely to continue to hold it for the time being. But the developments that put Republicans back in a stronger position to win a ...

From DAN BALZ, The Washington Post,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  National Republican Congressional Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin

U.S. deeply split on troop increase for Afghan war

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has recommended the substantial increase in troop strength, and 47 percent of those polled favor the buildup, while 49 percent oppose it. Most on both sides hold their views "strongly." ...

From DAN BALZ AND JON COHEN, The Washington Post,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda

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