Black, Hispanic Democrats in historic Senate wins
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Barack Obama, a rising African-American star of the Democratic Party and Ken Salazar, a newly-minted Hispanic senator-elect, toasted their historic elections to the US Senate on Wednesday, traditionally a bastion of white male patricians.
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The Nov. 7 election included plenty of successes for Ohio Democrats, who wrested the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat from Republicans, picked up an open House seat, and ran highly competitive races against three GOP House incumbents.
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Republicans swept the five Democratic Southern Senate seats up for election, expanding their majority by at least three seats in the US Senate, and appeared to have scored a major upset by
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada won election as Senate Democratic leader on Tuesday, taking over a party with fewer seats than at any time since the Great Depression more than 70 years ago.
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The Democratsâ Sunday night Univision debate was just the first step in a drive to reverse George Bushâs gains among Hispanic voters. On to 'Latino Tuesday.'
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the Senate's lone African-American, praised Rep. Ben Cardin on Wednesday in a Maryland Senate race pitting a black Republican against a white Democrat.
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CQPolitics.com today concludes its analysis of the 12 Senate contests next year in which the Democrats will be the defending party.
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It only took 11 of VermontÃ¢ÂÂs 260 precincts to report in for Rep. Bernard Sanders to be declared the winner of TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic Senate primary. That is what happens when the popular eight-term incumbent of the stateÃ¢ÂÂs only House seat runs up more than 90 percent of the vote over four virtually unknown opponents.
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What does the Democrats' upset victory in a congressional special election mean for the two parties' battle for the Hispanic vote in 2008?
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CORAL GABLES, Florida  - Hillary Clinton and other Democratic presidential hopefuls wooed Hispanic voters on Sunday with pledges to back a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and attacks on Republican "demagoguery" on the issue of immigration.
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TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs runoff election defeat of eight-term Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla by Democratic former Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez in TexasÃ¢ÂÂ 23rd District Ã¢ÂÂ in the final election contest in 2006 Ã¢ÂÂ brought to 30 the number of seats taken over by the Democrats in their successful drive to gain control of the House in the 110th Congress. The Democrats lost none of the 203 seats that they were defending this year.
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Deval Patrick, the winner of Massachusetts' Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, would be the state's first black governor if he wins in November. The state's voters were already the first to elect an African American to the Senate. Who was the first popularly elected African American to serve in the Senate?  Hiram Revels Blanche Bruce Sinclair Weeks Edward W. Brooke III
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Hillary Rodham Clinton won the vote with strong support from women and Hispanics, but Barack Obama may receive one more national delegate.
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New Orleans area U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation into $90,000 found in his freezer.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama defeated New York Senator Hillary Clinton in Georgia's primary, networks projected, gaining the first victory on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was strongly supported by Hispanics and people seeking an experienced candidate, but held only modest leads with women and whites, two of her usual strengths, in early national exit polls Tuesday. A coalition of black, young white and higher-income voters were flocking to Sen. Barack Obama.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Nevada  contest for the Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday,  defeating her rivals in their first test of strength among  Hispanic voters and boosting her campaign after a narrow  victory in New Hampshire, U.S. media projected.