Two of Virginia's Congressional districts get re-drawn over GOP objections
Judges re-drew Southern Va.'s 3rd and 4th Congressional districts; GOP lawmakers had concentrated the region's African-American voters into a single district.
Texans face tough fights
With their two-thirds GOP majority in the Texas House, the right wing hopes to curtail the right of Texas workers to join unions.
Election 2010: Crucial governors' races overlooked
The nation's governors play a key role in implementing federal policy - and none more so than in the next three years - when the states will have to do the heavy lifting on setting up competition in the health care sector, as part of the health care reform law Democratic President Barack Obama pushed through Congress.
