Local election news & results:
| Obama results show gains in religious votersPublished: Saturday, November 08, 2008In building a winning coalition of religious voters, Barack Obama cut into the so-called God gap that puts frequent worshippers in the Republican column, won Catholics, made inroads with younger evangelicals, and racked up huge numbers with minorities and people with no religious affiliation.+ read more |
| Merkley wins Oregon Senate racePublished: Thursday, November 06, 2008Count: Democrat Jeff Merkley with 786,021 to Republican Gordon Smith's 739,784+ read more |
| Merkley beats odds, defies expectationsPublished: Thursday, November 06, 2008PORTLAND — Despite his move to the political middle, two-term incumbent Republican Gordon Smith has lost his U.S. Senate seat to Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley.+ read more |
- Obama picks Clinton alum for chief of staff
- McCain: Obama has achieved a 'great thing'
- Jubilation and tears
- Bush wishes Obama well on a 'great journey'
- Obama faces daunting challenges
- Voters flunk Coos Bay school bond issue
- Oregon gives 7 electoral votes to Obama
- McKeown wins Coos Bay mayor's seat handily
- Coos County: No to tax levies
- Smith, Merkley race still too close to call
- Obama wins: 'Change has come to America'
- Hard feelings for McCain faithful at Ariz. rally
- Democrats retake House, make broad gains
- Obama sweeps to victory as first black president
- Schrader defeats Erickson for open Ore. House seat
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moreTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is endorsing Marco Rubio for Florida's U.S. Senate seat....
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moreIn a season of profound political and cultural fissures, the American people stood together at the ballot box Tuesday with a resounding chorus that drowned out their deep differences: Something, they said, has got to give....
morePITTSBURGH (AP) -- The meteorologists tell us that Wednesday morning in southwestern Pennsylvania's largest city will be crisp and sunny with a high of 64. That's about all we know. Being a weather forecast, it offers nothing about the political climate that will have been created by the election the day before....
moreWASHINGTON, Ga. (AP) -- Back in 1780, while the Revolutionary War still raged, a village in eastern Georgia had a notion. The hero of that uncertain hour was Gen. George Washington, and the community of Heard's Fort became the first of nearly 30 across the land to take his surname as its own....
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