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...strain of anti-incumbent fever swept through the electorate Nov. 3 as cranky voters replaced two Democratic governors with Republicans and elected a Democrat to an upstate New York House seat that the GOP has long controlled. Maine voters rejected a law allowing gay marriage. Republicans sought to frame wins in Virginia and New Jersey as rejections of President Obama and a grim omen for his party in next year's congressional battles. But with economic angst and regional concerns dominant in most races, politics this year appeared primarily local...
...coup for the GOP, former federal prosecutor Christie ousted Corzine in a heavily Democratic state where Obama won by 15 points. A sputtering economy, high property taxes and a massive public corruption scandal involving several Corzine allies all took their toll on the incumbent...
McDonnell will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years after his decisive win. (Republicans swept all three statewide offices.) Once a GOP stronghold, Virginia emerged as a swing state after backing Obama last year. But unlike in 2008, independents favored the Republican, who sidelined social issues to run as a pragmatist...
Pelosi’s endorsement may also have implications for Republican candidates and members of the GOP...
...comes from a relatively liberal state. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, for example, all have strong reservations about a government-run alternative to private insurers. But Lieberman is the only one who has stated flat-out that he would join a GOP filibuster of the bill to prevent it from getting an up-or-down vote. And unlike his other moderate Democratic colleagues, he has claimed he's not even open to the compromise proposal that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has been pushing - a so-called trigger mechanism whereby a state would...