What got so many counties to go red from blue in '04?
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When President Bush delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday, he'll survey a Capitol Hill landscape that reflects the heartland he won on Election Day.
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Home foreclosure filings surged in the largest metropolitan areas in the United States during 2007, with cities in California, Ohio, Florida and Michigan reporting among the highest rates in the country, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.
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More than 40 states have found themselves with more money than they planned as they wound down their regular sessions.
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This year's elections saw the partisan makeup of New Hampshire's House delegation switch from fully Republican to fully Democratic Ã¢ÂÂ a rare feat in any state with more than one House district. When was the last election that resulted in New Hampshire's entire House delegation changing from one party to another?  1958 1914 1974 1986
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A growing religious movement sees potential to shift a blue state's hue.
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Though is has a reputation for leaning Democratic, Maryland's congressional delegation has been fairly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats for some time. When was the last election that saw all of Maryland's House seats go to Democrats?  1974 1992 1968 1958
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Arizona began allowing voters to register online in 2004. Three years later, Washington became the second state to do so.
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Republicans scramble in South Carolina after three big races with three different winners ... Thompson says spending puts U.S. on course to Soviet-like oblivion
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What's red, white and blue &#151; and made in China? A move is on in state legislatures to ensure that the flags folks will be flying and buying this Independence Day were made on this fruited plain.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Tens of thousands of recently found ballots in a Florida county are reversing one outcome in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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With far more Republicans than Democrats facing reelection in 2008, Democrats hope to widen their independent-bolstered 51-to-49 majority, perhaps by three or four seats. But it takes serious political talent to knock off a Senate incumbent, and it's mostly red-leaning states that are in play....
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The political battleground in the presidential campaign has shifted from states like Ohio and Florida to Vietnam. The all-too-real battleground of three decades ago is once again playing a
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President Bush called it a thumping, but to Democrats, it felt more like a restoration after a long turn out of power in Congress and several big-state governorships. By any description, the 2006 elections marked a voter revolt, fueled by anger over the war in Iraq and corruption at home, yet carried out with remarkable precision.
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Polarized voters, almost perfectly divided between the two parties &#151; and the balance of power hanging on hard-fought, expensive campaigns in a few key areas. It's the story line of the 2004 presidential election, but it's also playing out in the battle for power in state legislatures, where Democratic and Republican control has probably never been so evenly divided.
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Republicans added US Senate seats in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and replaced a retiring Republican in Oklahoma. Democrats claimed a seat in Illinois.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A panel of linguists has deemed "red state, blue state, purple state" the phrase that most colored the nation's lexicon in 2004.
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An overhaul in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that could trigger a repeat -- this time on a national scale -- of last week's Election Day debacle in the Maryland suburbs, election experts said.