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One day after conservative activists succeeded in forcing Republican Dede Scozzafava to quit New York's special congressional election, many residents in this sleepy town just south of the Canadian border say they are fed up with outsiders influencing the race.

MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia: "In , he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote, 'cohabitators, ...

Tuesday's election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic party.

Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, pictured in friendlier days in 1995, are rivals on upstate NY race.

IT is very difficult to keep track of the cycle of elections in the United States of America.

A last-minute endorsement by one-time opponent Dede Scozzafava and a wave of support from previously undecided voters helped Democrat Bill Owens make history Tuesday night in the 23rd Congressional District, according to political analysts.

Following yesterdays swearing in of Rep. Garamendi, our newest member of Congress, Rep.

Now that William L. Owens has won election to Congress, the hard part begins. Mr. Owens arrives in the Capitol today as the House tackles health care reform, probably the most perilous vote of the year for Democrats in Republican-leaning districts.

Corrected at 10:40 a.m. on Nov. 6. Did we really learn much from the off-year elections? I don't think so.

Less than a day after Tuesday's election for the 23rd Congressional District, the fallout is smoldering hot.

While Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey won their state's governorships, Democrats proved victorious in two big money Congressional special elections Tuesday in California and New York.

Support for Democratic candidates could be more common as the party gains voters in rural Madison County.

Congressman-elect Bill Owens has been invited to the White House Friday to meet with President Barack Obama, who wants to congratulate the Democrat on his victory in New York's 23rd congressional district.

What was the biggest suprise of Election Day? 1. Money Doesn't Matter. Mike Bloomberg broke records by spending at least $90 million of his own money on a race for a third term as New York's Mayor, saturating the world's most costly media market for endless commercials in an effort to destroy an already feeble opponent.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell greets supporters during the campaign rally yesterday enlarge Barack Obama faces a likely political bruising today as Virginia votes for a new governor in an election that the Republican candidate looks set to win.

The election of 2009 should have gone down in history as most off-year elections.

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Regardless of Republican gloating, I'm not reading too much into yesterday's election.

If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: the New York 23rd Congressional District has had a Republican incumbent since the 1870s.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that what happens at the polls tomorrow is going to tell us what it means for President Obama's agenda or how it will portend the 2010 or even 2012 elections.