Obama carries Florida, progressives make gains
President Barack Obama has achieved a narrow victory in Florida over Mitt Romney, according to the recount finished on Sat., Nov. 10.
Momentum grows for ending the filibuster
The newly elected, slightly more Democratic U.S. Senate must tackle comprehensive filibuster reform or it will grind to a dead halt again.
CT working families defeat Linda's lies
Connecticut voters smacked down tea party Republican Linda McMahon on Election Day and chose Rep. Chris Murphy to be their new U.S. Senator.
Clergy: "Reject grand bargain, tax the rich"
Federal budget cuts will devastate social programs, "plunge communities into ruin and destruction, and cost lives."
Janitors slated for Christmas layoff swamp City Hall
Hundreds of O'Hare Airport workers slated to lose their jobs just before Christmas marched through City Hall today, chanting and waving banners, flags and signs.
Election Day in California: a bad day for Republicans
Nov. 6 was a very bad day to be a Republican in California.
The 2012 elections changed Texas
The growing Latino vote, much discussed in national politics, may have accounted for the Democrats' successes in Texas.
Sneak attack on financial regulations underway on Capitol Hill
A sneak attack against financial re-regulation - undoing the reforms imposed on Wall Street and similar finaglers after the 2008 crash - is underway on Capitol Hill.
Voters give Obama four more years to move nation forward
Battling an unprecedented barrage of lies, voter suppression laws, racially-charged attacks and fringe ideology on women, immigrants, gays and lesbians, fueled with billions of Wall Street and secretive super PACS dollars, the coalition backing the president pulled off what was once seen as an impossible task: reelection.
Elections in the new Virginia
On November 6, voters in the key battleground state of Virginia formed extremely long lines and in some cases waited for hours to vote.
