by Mark Silva and updated at 10:50 pm EST
The first of the night's returns from nationally watched elections are in, and, as expected, the Democrats have been routed in Virginia - Republican Bob McDonnell swamping Democratic rival Creigh Deeds in the race for an open governor's seat.
The [...]
by Mark Silva
It was a year ago, on another Election Day, when President Barack Obama's senior political adviser shed some tears.
"When the network projection came up, I was standing with (campaign manager) David Plouffe and some people in the war room where they were getting returns,'' says Obama" [...]
by Mark Silva
Who is President Barack Obama, the noted White Sox fan from Chicago, rooting for in the World Series?
"I asked the president,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, with the Yankees leading the Phillies 3-2 in the series. "He said he hoped for a [...]
by Alexander C. Hart
Republicans today boycotted the start of a Senate hearing on climate-change legislation.
The Republican members of the Environment and Public Works Committee are demanding a full Environmental Protection Agency analysis of the climate bill.
Despite the boycott, committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) still held the meeting, [...]
by Mark Silva
This is what passes for drama in Washington:
Rep. John Shimkus, the Illinois Republican who walked out toward the end of the president's address to a joint session of Congress yet still won an invitation to play basketball at the White House, is reading [...]
by Mark Silva
"Can I call you Joe?'' Sarah Palin asked Joe Biden during their vice presidential candidates' debate last year.
Biden was calling her "Sarah" this week on the campaign trail in upstate New York, where the Republican former'" [...]
by Mark Silva
The Giants are up in the Japan Series -- 2-1 over the Nippon Ham Fighters.
And George W. Bush, the former managing partner of the Texas Rangers (also former president of the United States), was there to toss [...]
by Mark Silva
Barack Obama is not on the ballot today.
Yet, when the day's voting is done, many will insist that he was.
In Virginia, where the polls opened before dawn, there wasn't much trouble getting in and out of our polling place - none of the crowds' [...]
by Mark Silva
"There is no magic to us,'' First Lady Michelle Obama says of herself and President Barack Obama -- the one thing they had going for them was families that cared.
The first lady was speaking at the kickoff of a girls' mentoring project at the White'" [...]
Mark Silva, Christi Parsons, Jim Tankersley
