Oct 07 WATCH LIVE: West Virginia Senate debate By Anya van Wagtendonk Watch the West Virginia debate for U.S. Senate at 7 p.m. EDT tonight, featuring Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R) and West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant (D). West Virginia Public Broadcasting will live stream the event. Continue reading
Oct 07 How will early voting affect the midterm elections? By Andrew Troast As of Oct. 7, 11 states have opened their doors to early in-person voting with Indiana and Ohio beginning today. Forty-two states have already sent out their early absentee ballots. Continue reading
Oct 07 Both sides vie for youth vote in tightly contested Colorado Senate race By Bente Birkeland, Rocky Mountain Community Radio Democrats have historically counted on carrying voters under 34. But this year, the Colorado GOP is hoping anti-Obama sentiments will fuel a surge of younger voters to cast ballots in their favor. Continue reading
Oct 07 Forget Election Day -- voting is already happening By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford Today in the Morning Line: 43 states have some form of early voting What mail ballots could say about the N.C. Senate race About one-in-five expected to vote early More fundraising for President Obama Early voting underway: With less than… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Remembering Lady Bird Johnson's whistle-stop tour for civil rights By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch What's next in the legal battle over same-sex marriage? - Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Supreme Court clears way for same-sex weddings in at least five more states - Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 After Supreme Court decision, attitude toward same-sex marriage still polarized By Rachel Wellford The NewsHour spoke individually to both defenders and opponents of gay marriage to get their take on the Supreme Court’s decision and what it could mean for the future of same-sex marriage in America. Continue reading
Oct 06 Will 'security moms' shift women voters away from Democrats? By Fred Bever, NHPR Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen is making a big push for the women’s vote, which for three decades has tilted toward her party. But this year, GOP challenger Scott Brown is trying to exploit what may be a new vulnerability for… Continue reading
Oct 06 Alaska's Begich battles midterm partisan undertow By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press For Democrats to maintain control of the Senate, they have to hope that the Senate race in Alaska is decided by issues that most voters elsewhere have never confronted, like genetically modified salmon or fishing quotas. Continue reading