| |  Obama back to campaign-style politics, a strength
Mar 18 2010 5:23AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - After a rousing campaign rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine last summer, President Barack Obama flashed a broad smile to an aide as he boarded his helicopter back to the White House. | | |
Colo.'s political parties see caucus rebellion
Mar 17 2010 1:57AM CT
DENVER (AP) - Disgruntled Colorado voters in both major parties rejected political insiders in straw poll results at caucuses around the state that exposed deep unease with two Senate candidates seen as favored by Washington party bigwigs. | | |
It's 2010? Time to focus on statehouse elections
Mar 15 2010 12:03PM CT
NEW YORK (AP) - Usually out of the national spotlight, state legislative races are taking on new prominence this year. The reason? It's a year ending in a zero, when U.S. census results are the cue for state lawmakers to draw new boundaries for congressional districts across the country. | | |
 Divided party? It's not just GOP, but also Dems
Mar 13 2010 4:31PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour. | | |
States scramble after high court election ruling
Mar 12 2010 12:44PM CT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in. | | |
 Brown team to apply winning strategy elsewhere
Mar 9 2010 2:07PM CT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island. | | |
Poll finds blacks motivated to vote in November
Mar 8 2010 2:48PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism, according to polling that found the party's large African-American voting bloc eager to stay involved even without Barack Obama on the ballot. | | |
McConnell doesn't like GOP pitch based on fear
Mar 7 2010 9:52AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's top Republican says he didn't like a recent GOP appeal to party donors that was based on stoking fear and negative feelings toward President Barack Obama and other Democrats. | | |
 Just one job now for ex-Va. Gov. Kaine _ Dem chief
Mar 6 2010 9:50PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman — and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader. | | |
 New York politics rocked by upheavals
Mar 5 2010 3:02PM CT
NEW YORK (AP) - The Empire State has a lot to recommend it — Broadway shows, Niagara Falls, and baseball's World Series champions, the New York Yankees. But politics? As the locals would say, Fuhgeddaboudit. | | |
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