By Wellington E. Webb NNPA Guest Columnist Now that the dust has settled after our nation’s 2014 elections across the country, here is my two...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — As most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning after the elections, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously in a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even with overwhelming support from Black voters, Democrats still lost control of the United States Senate...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Is there any doubt about the preeminence of the race factor that helped to determine the outcome of the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The mid-term national election will go down as the biggest landslide since 1928. The Democratic Party suffered a full fledge...
WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Just like that, Washington’s political landscape has shifted again. Republicans expanded their majority in the House of Representatives and captured enough...
Alex Altman, TIME MAGAZINE (Time.com)—A lengthy informercial on the conservative doctor may be a prelude to a presidential campaign. Pretending to run for president can...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing the future leaders of a Republican-controlled Congress, President Barack Obama pledged Friday to judge ideas in his final...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters made clear Tuesday that they’re worried about the economy, despite steady job gains, a robust stock market...
(Politicus USA) – The lazy explanation from the media and political chattering classes is that Democrats lost their Senate majority because of Barack Obama. The...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — For anyone expecting postelection contrition at the White House or vows to change course after a disastrous...
The Associated Press Profiles of the new senators elected Tuesday: ARKANSAS: Republican Tom Cotton The congressman, a Harvard Law School graduate and Army veteran, unseated Democrat...
CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Above all else, what’s at stake in Tuesday’s midterm elections is control of the U.S. Senate. That, in turn, will shape the...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Public campaigning gave way to the privacy of the voting booth Tuesday with control of the Senate, the...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer There is hope mixed with cynicism and anger vying with optimism as Americans cast ballots across the country. Seventy-one-year-old Jim Brinley...
Cooper Allen, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)—It all comes down to this. The campaign is coming to a close, and we’re now on the eve of...
MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Republicans are calling on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to apologize after she suggested Thursday that President Barack Obama’s...
(Reuters) – U.S. voters’ readiness to face tough issues such as pension reform rather than simply kick the can further down the road will be...
BILL BARROW, Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Michelle Nunn’s difficult political balancing act as she seeks Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat was on full display...
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By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old...
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST CLEVELAND (The Washington Post)—It was an at-times tense but by all accounts probing conversation when a few hundred gathered here...
The Associated Press The black vote, health care and economic issues were among the talking points that sparked clashes during debates Tuesday ahead of next month’s...
(Politico) – Deep down, Republicans who know health care know the truth: Obamacare isn’t about to be repealed. But you won’t hear that in this election...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ high hopes of mitigating House losses in a rough election year have been dashed by reality. The question...
