Politics

By HALIMAH ABDULLAH
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker held on to lead of less than four percentage points over Harold Ford Jr. Tuesday with almost 90 percent of the statewide votes tallied.

WASHINGTON - Democrats captured four of the six Republican-held seats they needed to take control of the Senate, winning critical contests in Ohio, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Missouri, and inched closer Wednesday to erasing the GOP's majority.

TOKYO - Democratic gains in Congress were seen around the world Wednesday as a rejection of the U.S. war in Iraq that led some observers to expect a reassessment of the American course there.

The shift in power also was seen as a signal in some capitals that the United States would put a greater emphasis on trade policy and human rights.

WASHINGTON - Democrats won control of the House early Wednesday after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress.

"From sea to shining sea, the American people voted for change," declared Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the hard-charging California Democrat in line to become the nation's first female House speaker.

By THOMAS HARGROVE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
America's voters waited in long lines Tuesday as polling officials frantically fiddled with electronic voting machines and new registration procedures that caused delays in hundreds of precincts.

Thirty-two percent of the nation's counties faced their first big test for new ballot equipment and several states implemented new computerized lists of registered voters, reforms both mandated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

Problems were reported in Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah.

By THOMAS HARGROVE
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
America's voters waited in long lines Tuesday as polling officials frantically fiddled with electronic voting machines and new registration procedures that caused delays in hundreds of precincts.

Thirty-two percent of the nation's counties faced their first big test for new ballot equipment and several states implemented new computerized lists of registered voters, reforms both mandated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

Problems were reported in Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah.

By LISA MASCARO
Friday, November 17, 2006
For all the talk of a wave that could sweep Democrats to power in Congress and beyond on Tuesday, there is still one major hurdle to clear: getting Democrats to vote.

By TOM HUMPHREY
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
While Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Harold Ford Jr. engage in bitter political warfare, their campaign commanders say they continue to be personal friends.

By KEVIN DIAZ
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Minnesota Democrat Coleen Rowley doesn't know the difference between a Nazi and a U.S. Marine. Her Republican opponent, incumbent John Kline, has been corrupted by special interests.

That, at least, is what they say about each other.

In the final days of the midterm congressional elections, candidates across the nation are getting down to what they think voters really ought to know.

As they finish spending an estimated record $2 billion on political advertising, they sometimes emphasize such leading issues as Iraq, the budget deficit and health care.

By JEROME L. SHERMAN
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in American history, hopes to win another six-year term Tuesday, just a few weeks shy of his 89th birthday.

Are his West Virginia constituents concerned about the Democrat's advancing age? Not really _ at least not in this southern corner of the Mountain State.

"I look at him as being younger," said Earl Hager, 97, who spent two decades in the House of Delegates and is the elder statesman of Logan County Democrats.