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GOP voters are more likely to agree with Sen. Jim DeMint than with those who say they want to broaden the party, according to a new poll.

Dierdre Scozzafava was supported by most Republicans against their better judgement, Dierdre Scozzafava received over a million dollars from Republican committees, organizations, and PAC'S, and Dierdre Scozzafava decided to return the favor by endorsing a liberal Democrat, and sided with a Democratic takeover of a congressional district/area which ...

Tucked tight up against the Canada-U. S. border, along the southern banks of the St.

Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, tonight picked up his party's support for a seat on the House Armed Services Committee, an appointment that would allow him to continue in the footsteps of former Rep.

By Ben Pershing The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration "declined to provide any" such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.

Army Secretary John McHugh will attend memorial services at Fort Carson for 15 soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month.

Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Many conservatives are biding their time, waiting for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 2010.

Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation.

The special election last week for the 23rd Congressional District seat in New York may not be over after all.

It is not often that a political party puts more than $750,000 behind a candidate in a high-profile Congressional race, only to see the intended beneficiary endorse the opposition.

Congress is divided about how - and even whether - to move forward with independent investigations of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

Rep. William L. Owens was sworn in as the north country's new congressman Friday, just in time to cast what could be a defining vote of his term on a politically divisive health care reform bill.

This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The Washington Post is still having trouble with how the voters rejected their favorite Democrats.

New York's 23rd Congressional District Democratic candidate Bill Owens greets supporters after his victory at Democratic headquarters in Plattsburgh, N.Y. For the Democrats, there was one silver lining to an otherwise bleak Election Day: The party in power won New York's 23rd Congressional District, picking up a seat that had been safely in ...

The 2010 political season opened Tuesday night in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and California.

Edward Ates, accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey, is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.

One day after conservative activists succeeded in forcing Republican Dede Scozzafava to quit New York's special congressional election, many residents in this sleepy town just south of the Canadian border say they are fed up with outsiders influencing the race.

MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia: "In , he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote, 'cohabitators, ...