Nov 05 Political Editor David Chalian Answers Your Questions Eric Likness: I know Blanche Lincoln lost, but how many other Blue Dog Dems lost seats in addition to her? How much of a difference will that make in the Senate, where the Dems still have a majority? David… Continue reading
Nov 05 5 Answers From Election Night Updated 3:00 p.m. ET Now that we can place the term "shellacking" right next to "thumpin' " in the post-election political dictionary, let's sort through the wreckage and victories from the midterm elections to answer the five questions… Continue reading
Nov 05 Map: President Obama's Trip to Asia President Obama embarked Friday morning on a 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. He plans to meet with world leaders, participate in the G-20 and APEC economic summits, and give a speech on U.S. outreach to… Continue reading
Nov 05 Congress Loses Hundreds of Years of Experience - But Majority of Incumbents Stick Around View all Incumbent Losses [Google Spreadsheet] Fifty-three members of the House of Representatives lost their jobs Tuesday in an election that moved 60 seats (including wins in open seats) into Republican control. Excluding the freshmen and sophomore… Continue reading
Nov 05 After Midterm Losses, President Obama Takes Off on 10-Day Trip to Asia A billboard welcomes President Obama in Mumbai. Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images. After losing between 60 to 64 seats in the House of Representatives and six seats in the Senate, holding the obligatory postmortem press conference and extending… Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Historic Perspective on Republican Shift Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University and Beverly Gage of Yale University examine the results of Tuesday's midterm election in the context of races past. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch Alaska Still Counting Votes in Senate Race The votes for Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski, a write-in candidate, and Tea Party favorite Joe Miller are still being counted in Alaska. Judy Woodruff talks to Michael Carey, host of KSKA's "Anchorage Edition," about the undecided Senate contest. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch Obama Invites Republican Leaders to White House President Obama invited leaders of both parties for a meeting at the White House later in the month "to talk substantively" about how to work together. Judy Woodruff has more on the bargaining to come. Continue watching
Nov 04 Questions of Photographic Propriety in 'Framing Innocence' In 1999, Cynthia Stewart, an amateur photographer and school bus driver in Oberlin, Ohio, was arrested on two felony charges for photographs she'd taken of her eight-year-old daughter, which she tried to have developed at a nearby drugstore. The charges… Continue reading
Nov 04 Midterm Election Pitted Keynesians vs. Hayekians, Again By Paul Solman This entry is cross-posted on the Making Sen$e page, where correspondent Paul Solman answers your economic and business questions "It's the economy, stupid." (Bill Clinton, 1992) "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" (Ronald Reagan,… Continue reading