Make me an offer: Virginia crabbers offer up licenses in bids totaling $30.4 million One-third of Virginia's watermen have offered to sell their ...
Southern Democrats who could be particularly vulnerable in 2010 antsy after Virginia landslide Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial ...
President Barack Obama is brushing aside a sharp rebuke at the polls on the first anniversary of his historic election, saying his administration had saved the nation from economic ruin. Just hours after rival Republicans gleefully ousted Democratic candidates in two key ...
Analysis: From Obama's limited clout to the power of independents, '09 lessons will shape '10 What we learned from the off-year elections: The president's influence is limited, independents rule, incumbents beware, issues trump ideology and, once more, "It's the economy, stupid." Also: ...
US President Barack Obama's Republican foes rejoiced Wednesday after winning two key election races, painting them as a big step in the bruised party's steep uphill journey to the 2010 mid-term votes. But the results on Tuesday also highlighted an intra-party feud ...
White House says Tuesday's GOP wins in Virginia, New Jersey not about Obama 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 ...
The White House Wednesday downplayed election defeats that jolted the incumbent Democrats, denying they were a referendum on the policies of President Barack Obama elected 12 months ago. A year to the day after Obama vowed before a tumultuous crowd in Chicago ...
The White House on Wednesday downplayed Democratic defeats in two key state elections, saying the polls were fought on local issues unrelated to President Barack Obama. Losses to the Republicans in governor races in New Jersey and Virginia were disappointing, White House ...
Multistate power line developers willing to delay consideration of applications in W.Va., Va. The developers of a multistate power line project said Wednesday they are willing to delay a regulatory decision on their $1.9 billion project until January 2011 to make the ...
Many young voters who helped elect Obama last year stayed home Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because ...
A year after helping send Obama to the White House, Va. voters pick Republican governor A Republican who promised to create jobs won the Virginia governor's office just a year after state voters helped a Democrat who promised change — and jobs ...
Republicans sweep governor races in Virginia, New Jersey _ troubling sign for Dems, Obama 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 ...
