Washington: National Elections

Associated Press: Washington: National Elections

3 hours, 40 minutes ago

(AP) 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," said ...

GOP lawmaker says Dems put agenda ahead of country

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(AP) A top House Republican says passage of the health care bill shows that Democrats didn't get the message from voters last week and in summer town-hall meetings.The No. 3 House Republican, Indiana's Mike Pence, says Democrats are putting their liberal, big government agenda ahead of the American people.The Democrat who ...

2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes

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(AP) 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 ...

2010 elections: Tables have turned on Democrats

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(AP) 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 ...

2010 elections: Tables turned on Democrats

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2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes

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Southern Dems cast wary eye at election results

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(AP) 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 ...

Fiorina's record at HP will be key to Senate race

3 days, 2 hours ago

(AP) Carly Fiorina's claim to fame _ her five-and-a-half years as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. _ could also be her greatest vulnerability in next year's U.S. Senate race in California.Hours before Fiorina made her candidacy official on Wednesday, her campaign aides sent reporters an 11-page report touting her record at ...

Voters to pols: Give us jobs, results, not spats

3 days, 12 hours ago

(AP) 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 ...

Former surgeon general's letter prompts scare

3 days, 21 hours ago

(AP) An unstamped letter from former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop turned into a security scare Wednesday as U.S. Capitol Police closed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office for about 45 minutes.Police officials declined to provide any specifics about who sent the letter, and Reid's office referred all questions to Capitol ...

White House: Tuesday's GOP wins not about Obama

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(AP) 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." The presidential spokesman ...

Steele: Election returns show 'transcendent' GOP

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(AP) Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is asserting that GOP victories in governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia demonstrate "a transcendent party" on the move again.Steele told CBS's "The Early Show" Wednesday he thinks Chris Christie's victory in New Jersey and Robert McConnell's win in Virginia show that the GOP ...

Democrat wins House seat in heavily GOP area in NY

4 days, 12 hours ago

(AP) President Barack Obama's decision in June to appoint a Republican congressman to a Pentagon post has paid dividends in November now that Democrats have gained the House seat by capitalizing on a split between moderates and conservatives in the GOP.Lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens won the special ...

Some notable races and measures on state ballots

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(AP) 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 Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine.U.S. HOUSE:_California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi easily ...

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ

4 days, 12 hours ago

(AP) 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 ...