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As former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs considers what to do with the abundance of free time he has since resigning the position he held for the better part of the last 30 years, rumors about possible political ambitions have begun to swirl...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the colorful Republican Governor of California and former actor, tells the AP that he won't be running for another office once he finishes his second term in Sacramento in January of 2011...
After 56 years and 320 days, Robert Byrd, the longtime Senator and former Congressman from West Virginia, has surpassed all others to achieve the longest record of uninterupted service of any member of either house of Congress. On Friday, the Dean of the Senate will celebrate his 92nd birthday...
According to multiple, well-placed sources (both inside the Washington state Legislature and those observing), Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, through a lack of political will and leadership, is the legislator most responsible for the death of marijuana decrim in the last session...
Former Louisiana Democratic Representative William Jefferson, who was convicted in August on federal corruption charges including conspiracy to solicit bribery, has been sentenced by a state court in Virginia to 13 years in prison, the longest sentence ever handed down to a former federal elected...
Just one day after a report from Politico.com that the employer-provided health plan extended by the Republican National Committee to its employees covers "elective abortion" procedures, the GOP committee has striken such coverage from its plan.
United States Army Chief of Staff General George Casey said on Sunday that more troops are needed in Afghanistan to continue fighting the war against the Taliban...
Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed its own version of the health care reform bill that has formed the centerpiece of the Obama Administration's legislative agenda thus far...
If Democrats seem to have really lost anywhere in the off-year elections on Tuesday, it's mostly in public opinion. Major media outlets and blogs alike have been citing what they suppose to be a "shift" in opinion ahead of a potential watershed year in 2010...
In a much-less covered race than those in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi is cruising to victory by close to a 20-point margin, keeping a longtime Democratic seat firmly in the blue column.
Interpreting the election may be more difficult than even the most seasoned political pundit may be willing to admit. Democrats won huge in New York 23. Republicans won (arguably) even bigger in New Jersey. And both parties fared just about as expected in both Virginia and the California 10th...
Four marquee elections in New Jersey, New York, California, and Virginia are set for Tuesday. Republicans- looking to define the contests as indicative of a shift in the national mood in their favor- need to win to prove it...
When Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut ran as an independent against Ned Lamont, the man who won his state's senate Democratic primary back in 2006, many of his colleagues in Washington distanced themselves from the party's 2000 Vice Presidential nominee...
After state legislator Tom Ammiano (D - San Francisco) told a crowd that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could "kiss [his] gay ass," Schwarzenegger returned the jab with one of his own. But the veto of a bill supported by Ammiano wasn't the only message.
According to a report from the New York Post, Democratic New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent word to friend and potential 2010 rival Rudy Giuliani that he will challenge incumbent Democratic Governor David Paterson for their party's nomination for Governor in 2010...
