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Big crowds expected as Palin kicks off book tour - 11/18/2009
Huge crowds are expected when Sarah Palin kicks off her national book tour in Michigan. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate is scheduled to sign copies of her book Wednesday evening at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids. The book was released Tuesday but has topped best-seller lists for weeks. The book

GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country - 11/08/2009
Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care. Voters are "tired of the borrowing, the spending, the bailouts, the takeovers," s

2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes - 11/08/2009
Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors' races in a cross-country Democratic wave. Now, with most states under their contr

Southern Dems cast wary eye at election results - 11/05/2009
Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections. "They say people won't walk a mile to vote for you but they'll walk 100 miles to

Voters to pols: Give us jobs, results, not spats - 11/05/2009
Voters' memo to politicians: We're angry and fearful, mostly about jobs and the economy. We want tangible solutions, not partisan bickering or intraparty spats. And we'll vote either party out of office if we don't think you're listening. That's the latest warning to thousands of candidates who will seek offices low and high in all 50

White House: Tuesday's GOP wins not about Obama - 11/04/2009
The White House says that Republican wins in two governors' races were not referendums on the president. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that voters went to the polls in Virginia and New Jersey to work through "very local issues that didn't involve the president." President Barack Obama's sp

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ - 11/04/2009
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Vir

Steele: Election returns show 'transcendent' GOP - 11/04/2009
An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted Wednesday that GOP victories in governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia demonstrate "a transcendent party" on the move again. The White House said the elections were not a repudiation of President Barack Obama. "We're not crowing, we're just smiling,&quo

Some notable races and measures on state ballots - 11/04/2009
Some notable races and measures in Tuesday's election: GOVERNORS: _Chris Christie, a Republican former U.S. attorney, unseated New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, a billionaire former Wall Street executive. _In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell beat Democrat R. Creigh Deeds to replace the term-limited Democr

What's at stake in Tuesday's elections - 11/02/2009
What's at stake in Tuesday's election: GOVERNORS: Voters in two states, New Jersey and Virginia, are electing governors. _The New Jersey race has centered on the economy and the state's highest-in-the-nation taxes. Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, the billionaire former Wall Street executive, is fighting to earn a se

Third party challenges in NJ, NY are warning sign - 11/01/2009
Third party candidates are shaking up two major races in elections Tuesday, and the success of those candidacies is a warning shot fired at both major parties by voters angry at government and disillusioned by politics as usual. In New York's 23rd Congressional district, where longtime Republican Rep. John McHugh stepped down to be Ar