Governor and statehouse races amplify a split nation
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By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. There is a former farmer. There&#39;s a son of the man who invented McDonald&#39;s Styrofoam hamburger boxes.
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Incumbent governors in Vermont and North Carolina won re-election Tuesday night, while the Democratic candidate in West Virginia kept the governor&#39;s office in the party&#39;s hands.
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An election campaign parades the political divide in the community. Yesterday, amid the extraordinary uncertainty about whether Australians had been taken hostage in Iraq, we saw the glue that unites the two sides of politics.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing
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Democrats Clinton and Obama split states; biggest prize projected for New York senatorSen. John McCain piles up projected wins -- including crown jewels California and New York Mike Huckabee projected for impressive wins in South; Mitt Romney cobbles together victories
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The US presidential election campaign is focusing on just a few states where the race is extremely close. The two major party candidates are spending most of their time now in these so-called battleground states.
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Republican Mitt Romney bluntly challenged his own party while John McCain and Rudy Giuliani assailed Democratic rivals as the GOP presidential hopefuls courted activists in a state that's now a player in the nomination march.
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.
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In a Republican state that has never refused a governor of either party a second term, Democrat John Lynch is running a surprisingly strong campaign against freshman Republican Gov. Craig Benson. Polls show the race about even.
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GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa -- Two states guard the campaign trail as though they own it. Their influence on national politics is wildly disproportionate to their modest populations. Neither has anything that could be called a large city, or a slum, or a sprawling suburb. Both are dotted with small towns...
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Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to reform redistricting takes on the red-blue divide.
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Recount Begins in Wash. Governor&#39;s Race; Republican Dino Rossi Led by 261 Votes in First Count. Govs.-elect Matt Blunt of Missouri, left, and Dino Rossi of Washington, confer during a break at the Republican
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There are just eight weeks until Nov. 7, the Election Day on which the nationÃ¢ÂÂs voters will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate and House and 36 of the 50 state governorships. Yet today, Sept. 12, is one of the busiest days on this yearÃ¢ÂÂs primary calendar, with nine states Ã¢ÂÂ Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin Ã¢ÂÂ holding their primary contests.
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With 22 states holding their primaries and caucuses on February 5's "Tsunami Tuesday," the candidates now find themselves trying to win the support of the different, ethnic communities that can deliver a bloc of votes
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Mitt Romneyâs victory means that three very different states have embraced three separate candidates.
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KHANPUR, India -- U.S. politics aren't usually the subject of gossip in the homes of this sleepy rice- and wheat-growing village in northern India. But when Bobby Jindal, an American of Indian descent, was elected governor of Louisiana this month, the residents of his ancestral village erupted in...
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Voters in 44 states went to the polls Tuesday to choose roughly four-fifths of the nation&#39;s state legislators, with Republicans and Democrats nearly evenly divided and perhaps a dozen states