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A new law meant to protect the voting rights of deployed troops and other Americans overseas is forcing at least a dozen states to consider holding their primaries earlier or to negotiate another plan that federal officials will accept.
With easy primary victories behind them, Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, wasted no time Wednesday working to firm up the messages that will carry them through the general election.
Their spots on the November ballot now secure, Democratic incumbent Chris Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi enter the homestretch in what likely will be the nation's most competitive governor's race.
Voters in Colorado, Nevada and Connecticut have chosen candidates for the fall election, including a Republican hoping to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo and a Democrat who will face-off against Rep. Chris Shays.
The mother of Detroit's mayor narrowly survived a primary election that focused on her scandal-plagued son as much as her own six terms in Congress.
Five congressional incumbents easily routed challengers Tuesday after light turnout in Georgia's party primaries, but two Democratic contenders for U.S. Senate were headed for a runoff.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce and Democrat U.S. Rep. Tom Udall won their parties' nominations for New Mexico's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat, while New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg strolled past primary opposition in his bid to join the winner on Capitol Hill.
NEWARK, N.J. — The third-oldest member of the U.S. Senate sought his party's nomination for re-election Tuesday, trying to overcome questions raised by a challenger who reminded voters that Sen. Frank Lautenberg would be nearly 91 by the end of a fifth term.
Sen. Lindsey Graham makes it clear as he seeks re-election that his political future is tightly woven with that of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Numbers and more numbers from the Democrats' presidential primary campaign:
After what feels like forever, the end of the presidential primaries is in sight. Really.
With the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination secure, the speaker of the Oregon House is turning his attention to defeating the sole GOP senator on the West Coast this fall.
It's becoming a disturbing trend for Republicans: losing traditional GOP strongholds to Democrats in some hard-fought congressional races.
Photos of West Virginia's top jurist vacationing with the chief executive of a massive coal producer have transformed an otherwise run-of-the-mill election into that state's most closely watched race, while voters in two other states prepared to cast ballots on key congressional seats.
Democratic primary races for the governors' offices in North Carolina and Indiana echoed the contests on the presidential level — one was over quickly, the other was down to the wire.
Locked in a tight gubernatorial primary race in Indiana, Jim Schellinger thought he made big news when a former governor endorsed his candidacy April 2.
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused rival Sen. Barack Obama and his allies of trying to stop people from voting as some of his backers have called on her to drop out of the presidential race.
In addition to picking presidential candidates, Mississippi voters on Tuesday will choose hopefuls vying for two rare open congressional seats, including one Democrats have a shot at claiming in November.
Dennis Kucinich may not be a presidential contender, but he is still a winner among his Cleveland constituents.
Dennis Kucinich, the liberal Ohio politician who has made two failed White House campaigns, won the Democratic primary Tuesday in his battle to keep his seat against the toughest, best-financed challenger in his 12-year congressional career.
A record number of voters overwhelmed Texas polling places, causing long lines and ballot shortages at some precincts and overflow crowds at postelection caucuses, while Ohio voters grappled with bad weather, power outages and ballot shortages.
The presidential primary reform plan backed by the Carter-Baker election commission and the National Association of Secretaries of State would establish four regions for primaries and caucuses. Under the proposal:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's must-win states of Ohio and Texas are no cakewalk for her, largely because independents and crossover Republicans are welcome to vote in their Democratic primaries.
Rebelling Republicans in five states will push ahead with early nominating contests, undeterred by party leaders' decision Thursday to punish them by excluding half their convention delegates.
Republican Party leaders on Monday recommended punishing five states for shifting their nomination contests earlier, moving to strip New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming of half their delegates.
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.Never much of a spellbinder, Hutchison fails to stir the audience or, for that matter, articulate a compelling message as to why, by waging a primary battle against a sitting governor, she is forcing Republicans to choose sides and risking the implosion of the party from within.
Newt Gingrich warns of 'destructive' GOP primariesFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP continues to field independent candidates to the right of the party's nominee.
Election Day 2009 has come and gone. Relatively speaking, this election was as insignificant as any off-year election is, as opposed to a mid-term election, but it still could have been an important year for the Libertarian Party, if we had simply bothered to show up.
Let Blue Dogs Face the Music in Primary ElectionsThe recent headlines about President Barack Obama working to crush primary campaigns against Democratic incumbents would be great fodder for a canned column looking at hypocrisy.
The RNC Chair Race: The Missing Issue - Marc AmbinderROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY ASS OFF I suppose I could make this an article rather than a seed, and I may later, but I wanted to get this up as soon as possible.
From December 2007 to March 2008, I wrote various drafts of a proposal on how our political parties -- starting in 2012 -- might adopt primary election procedures that would better serve our country in selecting presidential candidates.
Warning: Only for those who take psychic "predictions" not to heart.
Just to explain my popular vote argument because I don't like the portrayal from a lot of folks that Obama stole the election from Hillary vis-à-vis Gore/Bush because there is no real comparison due to the caucuses.
The selection of Sarah Palin as the running mate of Republican standard-bearer John McCain for the November 2008 presidential elections generated such a phenomenal reaction that it is credited for the surprising come-from-behind lead of McCain over Obama in the various election s …
Can Obama really pull it off?On Monday, MSNBC put its electoral count at 233 for Obama and 227 for McCain, with 270 needed for victory. Some Democrats are getting very concerned, and they have been making their concerns known to the Obama campaign.
Al Franken wins Senate nod amid 7 state primaries Days after the city of St Paul, MN hosted the GOP's Republican National Convention, former comedian Al Franken wins the primary as Minnesota's Democratic candidate for the US Senate.
Oprah on Obama DNC speech: "I cried my eyelashes off""I cried my eyelashes off," she told the AP moments after Obama accepted the nomination for president before an estimated 84,000 people.
Hillary Clinton speaks at convention. The press concocts a storyDesperate for conflict, the press ignores history. Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama need to tell them about themselves.
Obama Looking to Diminish SuperdelegatesBarack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during the long battle between Obam …
Roseanne Blames Oprah For Rift in Democratic PartyRoseanne Barr has followed up her Brangelina tirade with a verbal assault on Barack and Michelle Obama, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, and Democrats overall.
Olmert Strikes Deal to Avoid Early Elections The embattled prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, agreed on Wednesday to hold primaries in his centrist Kadima Party by late September, averting a looming political crisis and gaining a reprieve for himself and his governing coalition.
Obama alienates the editors For most voters, Barack Obama's shift away from public financing is not as big a deal as the mounting death toll in Iraq, surging gas prices---or even what they're going to make for dinner tonight.
No Debate: It's Great TVAND the Emmy goes to ... the presidential primaries.
Hillary's VP ProvocationWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Just when it seemed on the last Tuesday of the presidential primary season that Hillary Clinton would bow to the inevitable, she enraged Democrats who expected her to start strengthening Barack Obama as nominee.
Today, I Cried - The Obama tribute video that has to be seen!One of my fellow Arizonans has just made a video (which I've embedded after the jump) entitled, I Cried Today. In the video, Arizonans read a poem (also entitled I Cried Today) and then tell us why it personally matters to them that Barack Obama be elected president.
Obama claims Democratic nominationSen. Barack Obama of Illinois claimed the Democratic presidential nomination, NBC News said based on its tally of convention delegates.
AP: Obama has delegates to clinch nominationBarack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates.
AP: Obama has delegates to clinch nominationBarack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates.
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