Kingmaker DeMint Urges Change From Within GOP

Fox News: Senator Jim DeMint's biggest triumph may not be his easy re-election in South Carolina Tuesday night, but the victories of fiscally-conservative Republicans he supported in other states. He sees the fresh faces as part of a movement to not only challenge policies of the Obama administration, but also what he sees as excesses within ...

Obama Calls Boehner

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — President Obama, acknowledging what appears to be a resounding Republican victory, made a midnight phone call to the man who is set to lead the opposition party as speaker of the House, John A. Boehner. The call was made from the president's Treaty Room office. According to the White House, Obama ...

Cali Voters Reject Legalization Of Marijuana

LOS ANGELES (AP) – California voters said no thanks to a ballot initiative that would have made it the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use and sales. Proposition 19, rejected Tuesday, would have made it legal for adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, smoke the drug in nonpublic ...

“An Embarrasing Personal Rebuke”: Democrats Lose Obama’s Former Senate Seat

Fox News: Republican Mark Kirk on Tuesday captured the Senate seat once held by the president, dealing an embarrassing blow to Democrats. Kirk, a five-term congressman from Chicago's northern suburbs, defeated Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in one of the nation's ugliest and most closely watched Senate races. Giannoulias faced attacks over his family's failed bank, which gave loans ...

Barbara Boxer Wins, Barney Frank Wins – With Video

Los Angeles Times: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer is projected to win a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, based on exit poll results. Boxer defeated former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina after a bruising multimillion-dollar campaign. The Democratic incumbent bucked the national tide that saw Republicans make gains in the Senate and take control of the House ...

Broke Progressive California Elects Super-Progressive Super-Spender As Governor

Fox News: Democrat Jerry Brown has capped a political journey in California that began the year man landed on the moon, defying an era of term limits to return to the office he held 28 years ago. The 72-year-old state attorney general will take the helm of a state mired in recession and high unemployment after defeating ...

President Doesn’t Watch Election Train Wreck

Fox News: Aides say the President received updates on races from his staff, but didn't sit in front of the television watching the election returns himself. A spokesman said he planned to voice his thoughts on the results in a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said "today we get a message from ...

ACORN’s Stunning Election Night Announcement

Fox News: On this election night, there is a stunning turn from ACORN.

GOP Captures Governorships In At Least 4 States

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans on Tuesday captured governorships that had been held by Democrats in Michigan, Tennessee, Kansas and Oklahoma and hoped for many other statehouse gains as voters selected governors in more than two-thirds of the nation. Yet there were a few bright spots for Democrats in the face of an anti-incumbent groundswell sweeping the ...

Dems All But Certain To Hold Senate After California, West Virginia, Connecticut, And Delaware Wins

The Hill: Democrats won a key Senate seat in West Virginia as they looked to hold on the upper chamber of Congress.