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Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term, giving Democrats at least 58 seats in the Senate.
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Walking away from the Colombian free-trade agreement now would alienate many people in Colombia and undermine Washington’s credibility.
Just when Democrats thought it was time to claim hard-won administration appointments, Team Obama has created a vetting process worthy of aspirants for political sainthood.
The road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue went through a lot of neighborhoods. Don’t think they’ll forget.
Some Democrats in Connecticut have one basic request: They want Joseph I. Lieberman to resign from the party once and for all.
Howard Dean unleashed the new progressives. Can Barack Obama deal with them?
Matt Bai’s joke that Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton hadn’t spent enough time in Washington to “take the subway without a map” (The Way We Live Now, Nov. 2) is historically off. The first small segment of the subway did not open until 1976 (the year Jimmy Carter was elected), serving only a few stops between Union Station and DuPont Circle. While the subway was still a dream, Bill Clinton was a young Washington insider as an undergraduate at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Se...
Barack Obama competed in and won states where Democrats had been shut out for years. How much did Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy have to do with it?
If Barack Obama’s edge holds as Omaha counts its last ballots, Nebraska will award one electoral vote to a Democrat for the first time since 1964.
When the Champagne and caviar crowd is in trouble, taxpayer money can be found quickly. But the working poor and young are being clobbered in this downturn.
The pattern of support for Barack Obama may signify that the centrality of the South to national politics has come to an end.
A Democrat, Frank Kratovil, has won an open seat in the House for Maryland, while Representative Dave Reichert, a Republican, has won in Washington State.
Not a single one of Oklahoma’s 77 counties backed Barack Obama, and the state’s Republicans made significant gains down the ticket.
Gun dealers say sales have surged on buyers’ concerns about gun control under an Obama administration.