Oct 22 Watch Shields and Brooks on Campaign Cash, Juan Williams Firing, Early Voting Pitfalls Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks give their takes on the week's top news, including tight midterm races, the likelihood of Republicans making major gains in Congress and NPR's firing of analyst Juan Williams. Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch Jobs, Economy Loom Large in Elections, But Candidates Shirk Specifics How is the economy playing out as an election issue across the U.S. and what are candidates saying about it? Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Gene Grant of KNME in Albuquerque, N.M.; Cathy Lewis of WHRV in Hampton Roads, Va.;… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch Political Notebook: New Polls Show Republican Edge in Enthusiasm Political Editor David Chalian speaks with Margaret Warner about a new set of polls showing Republicans leading among likely voters and the midterm campaigning focusing more on President Obama's job performance. Continue watching
Oct 21 Jobs, Conservative Roots Pose Hurdles for Democrats in Small Town America _pap_embeddable('news01s4499qf90',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Ohio's 16th District all begins with Canton. The former manufacturing hub in the northeasternpart of the state has simultaneously shrunk in population and yet grown in the ranks of Ohio cities - climbing… Continue reading
Oct 21 Poll: Young Voters Are Less Fired Up, Ready to Go The head of University Democrats at the University of Virginia tries to register voters for the upcoming midterm elections. AFP photo by Saul Loeb In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama won the support of a large majority of voters ages… Continue reading
Oct 21 Stay Granted on Halting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'; Arms Sale Planned for Saudi Arabia A federal appeals court late Wednesday issued an emergency stay of a judge's order halting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, temporarily granting the Obama administration's request for a freeze on the order. The three-judge panel of the… Continue reading
Oct 21 Closing the Gap as Election Day Nears Supporters of Pennsylvania Senate candidates Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak waves signs before Wednesday's debate. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call via Getty Images. More often than not there's a natural tightening in competitive political races toward… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Cartographic Clout: GOP, Democrats Vie for Redistricting Dominance With new Census numbers being crunched, state legislatures are poised to redraw America's political maps for the next decade. Kwame Holman reports on the battle between Republicans and Democrats to win control of statehouses across the country as population shifts… Continue watching
Oct 20 6 Top Campaign Ads, Debunked Political ad-makers on both sides of the aisle are distorting the truth this campaign season. Nothing new there. But for voters looking for candidate information, political operatives are far from the only source available. There are several nonpartisan fact-checking groups… Continue reading
Oct 20 Reporter's Notebook: A Clinic's Strains in Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique | Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the United States. It's a big place, roughly the size of Pakistan, and sparsely populated by some 23… Continue reading