The Associated Press: GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Washington — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine...

GOP Gains Could Hurt Obama Political Capital, If Not Agenda
Republican gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia mark a troubling turn for President Obama, whose personal efforts couldn't stop the fall of Democrats facing a voter backlash over The Economy and a notable uptick in the government's would-be role in people's lives. Washington -- Republican gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia mark a troubling turn for President Obama, whose personal efforts couldn't stop the fall of Democrats facing a voter backlash over The Economy and a...

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell 's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled...

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell 's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled...

Republicans Win Governor's Races in New Jersey, Virginia
Republican Chris Christie beats incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey; Republican Bob McDonnell trounces Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia. Democrats prevent a shut-out by winning an upstate New York congressional seat.  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, left, and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie won their respective races Tuesday. (AP Photos) Republicans swept to victory in the New Jersey and Virginia Governor's races Tuesday, scoring a...

GOP Sweep: Big Governor Victories in Virginia, New Jersey: PHOTO
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.

Analysis: Nervous voters send message to Obama
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Obama Can't Save Democrats
The message to Democratic candidates from yesterday's GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia should be loud and clear: they're on their own, writes Dan McLaughlin . Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds tied themselves as closely to possible to President Obama and lost, demonstrating that the president's continued personal popularity isn't rubbing off on his fellow Democrats, Deeds writes at RedState.

Chris Christie Wins New Jersey Governor's Race
CBS News has projected that Republican Chris Christie has won the race for Governor in New Jersey over Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine and independent Chris Daggett. More details to come. Read more Election Day Coverage : Republicans Sweep N.J., Va. Gov. Races What McDonnell's Win Means for the GOP, Obama McDonnell Won Due to Turnout, Independents Exit Polls in Va. and N.J.: The Obama (Non) Factor? Washington Unplugged: A Referendum on Obama? Schieffer: Hard Right Driving the GOP Train

NYT analysis: Victories rekindle GOP's hope: PHOTO
The Republican victories in the races for New Jersey and Virginia governors put the party in a stronger position to turn back the political wave President Obama unleashed last year.

Independents fuel GOP victories in Va., N.J.
The independent voters who powered President Obama and Democrats to victory in 2008 fled to Republicans in Tuesday's Elections.

Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It's not 2008 anymore: PHOTO
Off-year Elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won The White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey delivered clear warnings for the Democrats.

Dem Corzine ousted in N.J., GOP takes Va.
TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie ousted New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine in Tuesday's election, a Republican victory in a typically Democratic state. With 81 percent of the districts counted, Christie had about 49 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Corzine, leading by around 100,000 votes, The New York Times reported. Independent Chris Daggett , a former Republican environmental official, had 5 percent of the vote. President Barack Obama made three visits to the...

NY 23 Election Results: Bill Owens Beats Doug Hoffman
ALBANY, N.Y. — President Barack Obama's decision in June to appoint a Republican congressman to a Pentagon post has paid dividends in November now that Democrats have gained the House seat by capitalizing on a split between moderates and conservatives in the GOP. Lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens won the special election Tuesday in northern New York in which the Republican candidate withdrew over the weekend under pressure from the party's right wing and GOP heavyweights...

Christie Beats Corzine in New Jersey: PHOTO
Christie (left), Corzine (center), and Daggett (right) voting in New Jersey. Republican Chris Christie won the New Jersey Governor's race, overcoming the huge edge incumbent Jon Corzine had in campaign funds and multiple visits by President Obama to rally Democrats to Corzine's side. Major News organizations called the race for the 47-year old former federal prosecutor a little more than an hour after the polls closed, based on their reading of the exit polls. With 98 percent of precincts...

Throw Dem Bums Out: PHOTO
Exit polls from Tuesday’s Elections suggested most voters weren't sending a message to Barack Obama . But the implications are clear: With incumbents falling and endangered everywhere, the country's economy – not sweeping Health Care reform – had better come first. Democrats have very little to hang their hats on this morning. Republicans swept the country’s two gubernatorial races with Bob McDonnell trouncing Creigh Deeds in Virginia (after eight years of Democratic rule...

Republican congressional victories in two states a rude wake up call for Democrats
Washington, Nov. 4 - ANI: Just a year after President Barack Obama swept into The White House, Republican congressional victories in Virginia and New Jersey yesterday came as serious warnings for the Democrats. The changing political landscape in both states revealed cracks in the Obama 2008 coalition and demonstrated that Republicans have the more energized constituency heading into next year's midterm Elections, The Washington Post reports. According to exit polls, one key change came among...

Analysis: Nervous voters send message to Obama: PHOTO
NEW YORK — Voters nervous about The Economy and fed up with the political establishment dominated the off-year Elections, sending a strong message to President Barack Obama, who won The White House as a change agent but has himself become the face of political power and incumbency.

Top Dems: Obama Won't Get Health Care Bill in 2009: PHOTO
Just last week, President Barack Obama declared he is "absolutely confident" he'll be able to sign a Health Care reform bill by the end of the year, but senior Congressional Democrats now tell ABC News that is highly unlikely.

GOP wins key governor races, but lose NY congressional seat: PHOTO
A Republican Party left for dead by many in the wake of recent Democratic landslides sprang back to life Tuesday with wins in hotly contested races for Governor in Virginia and New Jersey.

Republicans Win Two Governor Races, LAT Focuses on Dem Regional Wins: PHOTO
Sometimes spotting liberal bias is like shooting fish in a barrell. The folks at the Los Angeles Times really must have been trying to make it easy, however by downplaying two Republican gubernatorial victories (state-wide) and playing up two House races won by Democrats. "Democrats win congressional victories in California, N.Y." the paper's editors are touting on the site's home page . The linked story is similarly absurd (no wonder it has no byline). It's almost surreal....

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell 's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled...

Obama's guide to New York
He may be the president of a world superpower, but Barack Obama's first night in New York was spent in a Harlem alleyway. He refers to that era as his "lost years." His roommate at the time remembers Obama's first days as a student in New York's Columbia University.

Virginia, New Jersey elect Republican governors
Reporting from San Francisco and Washington - Republicans seized the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, giving the GOP a psychological boost heading into next year's midterm Elections. The two parties were also battling in a pair of House races in New York and California. Republicans were quick to cast their wins as a referendum on the president and a severe setback for Obama. But any meaning was muddied by differences among Tuesday's assorted campaigns, which were shaped more...