Politics
Another slow day at election central
Maddeningly, Wednesday's mayoral results mean exactly nothing.
Maddeningly, Wednesday's mayoral results mean exactly nothing.
Former TV host John Curley looks like the winner in his first run for office. He's got experience "regurgitating" information, he says.
Educated, affluent, secular suburbanites had been swinging to Obama and the Democrats. No more.
Incumbent Congressional Democrats in marginal districts will now run scared, making passage of health-care reform more difficult.
Vote-by-mail may be more convenient, but it comes at the expense of the symbolism and grand drama of election nights.