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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...
After none of six candidates won a majority in the nonpartisan race, city-council member Norwood will face former state lawmaker Reed in a Dec. 1 runoff. Norwood would be Atlanta's first white mayor in 36 years...
Supporters of gay rights took another hit as Maine became the 31st state to reject same-sex marriage at the ballot box. But a Washington State measure allowing gay civil unions appeared likely to pass...
BILL CLINTON, on his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's response to an 11-ft. (3.6 m) bronze statue of the former U.S. President unveiled in Pristina, Kosovo, on Nov. 1. It honors his role in pushing for NATO intervention in 1999, which stopped Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians...
It’s easy to make fun of my home state of New Jersey. Yes, the turnpike is a blight, Jon Bon Jovi can’t sing, there really are mafiosos and too many strip malls, and we aren’t the friendliest people in the world. Before New Jersey went to the polls to elect a governor a couple weeks ago, a whole new smear made its way through political circles: that New Jersey is impossibly corrupt and that the fix is in for the Democrats. As with most conservative voter-fraud scares, this charge...