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The election of two Republican gubernatorial candidates this week underscores the concern of many U.S. voters about the general direction of the country under the Democratic Party's leadership, a top Republican official said Saturday.

"After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to console themselves that Virginia is at its core a "red" state.

RICHMOND, Va. - Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli has named two former attorneys general and a former state Republican Party chairman to his transition team.

CC: [I recently graduated from] John Tyler Community College, Midlothian campus, with a degree in political science.

As GOP resurgences go, this one comes quick and unequivocal, barely an hour after the polls closed Tuesday night.

Botetourt County Supervisor Terry Austin, a Republican who abandoned the party to run for re-election as an independent, overwhelmingly defeated the challenger the GOP had hoped would unseat him Tuesday.

It's Election Day in only a few places around the country on Tuesday, and Republicans were doing most of the celebrating, riding a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment.

The race for Virginia's next governor is entering into its final hours. As the candidates try to drum up last minute votes, a new poll by Survey USA has McDonnell leading Deeds by 18 points.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** The GOP's two paths : Republicans are set to learn two very contradictory lessons from their likely victories tomorrow in Virginia and NY-23. In Virginia's gubernatorial race, as we've written before, Bob McDonnell has hugged the middle, portraying himself as a bipartisan ...

Republican Bob McDonnell appears poised to win the governorship and lead a GOP sweep Tuesday, ending nearly a decade of reverses for his party, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch Poll.

Politics is a pendulum that swings back and forth, according to Del. Ward Armstrong.

Two new polls showing Republican Bob McDonnell with sizable leads over Democrat Creigh Deeds less than one week before Election Day have added to the chatter among Virginia politicos and pundits that the gubernatorial race is effectively over.

Rank Race Change 1 LA-02 Republican None 2 LA-03 Democrat Up 3 NY-23 Republican Up 4 NM-02 Democrat Up 5 IL-10 Republican Down 6 AL-02 Democrat Up 7 MD-01 Democrat Down 8 PA-06 Republican Down 9 CO-04 Democrat Up 10 PA-07 Democrat Up What Will VA and NJ Mean? Given the dynamics in each race, Republicans have the better chance of pulling off a sweep ...

If elections are the ultimate beauty contest, President Obama next week will have his first major turn on the catwalk since his inauguration.

In front of a friendly crowd Wednesday that included former Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore, GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell stuck to his key theme of jobs.

I watched the debate between Deeds and McDonnell - Creigh is not a smooth talker.

Whether at the local, state, or federal election level, debates are often contentious affairs filled with accusations of dishonesty.

I suppose the good news for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds Monday night in his televised debate with GOP candidate Bob McDonnell is that the latter rarely responded directly to Deeds' latest charges of McDonnell's being held captive by the religious right and still holding outdated views on women in the workplace.

STAUNTON - The chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia touted R. Creigh Deeds' plan to create jobs while he labeled rival gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell as "Dr. No." 'The choice is do you want a leader like Mark Warner or Tim Kaine that knows how to move this state forward?' said Richard Cranwell, chair of the state's Democratic ...

Surrogates for gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds brought his a oeHope and Opportunity Toura to Henry County and other areas of Southside on Tuesday.