Victories in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday provided a major shot in the arm for the Republican Party heading into the 2010 elections, but the Democratic losses of these two governorships should not be interpreted as a significant blow to President Obama.
Tuesday's off-year election may not have had the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but several races are significant on the national level:
The president didn't watch the election returns Tuesday night, according to his press secretary, Robert Gibbs. He watched his beloved Chicago Bulls instead.
A Republican Party left for dead by many in the wake of recent Democratic landslides sprang back to life with wins in hotly contested races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.
"All politics is local." That four-word statement, originally uttered by former Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is one of the favorite clichés of political pundits everywhere. But it's seldom respected when it matters most.
A Republican Party that struggled 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, according to CNN projections.
The largest mass transit project in the country got under way Monday with the help of federal stimulus dollars, as public officials broke ground on a second passenger rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
Victories in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday provided a major shot in the arm for the Republican Party heading into the 2010 elections, but the Democratic losses of these two governorships should not be interpreted as a significant blow to President Obama.
Tuesday's off-year election may not have had the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but several races are significant on the national level:
The president didn't watch the election returns Tuesday night, according to his press secretary, Robert Gibbs. He watched his beloved Chicago Bulls instead.
A Republican Party left for dead by many in the wake of recent Democratic landslides sprang back to life with wins in hotly contested races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.
"All politics is local." That four-word statement, originally uttered by former Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is one of the favorite clichés of political pundits everywhere. But it's seldom respected when it matters most.
A Republican Party that struggled 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, according to CNN projections.
The largest mass transit project in the country got under way Monday with the help of federal stimulus dollars, as public officials broke ground on a second passenger rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
New poll numbers in New Jersey spell more trouble for Gov. Jon Corzine's bid for re-election. The poll could also be a sign that the country's severe recession may take a toll on incumbents running for re-election.
Members of Congress are now debating whether the government should demand equity stakes in any bank included in the proposed $700 billion bailout being pushed by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. If history is any guide, such a provision could recoup a big chunk of change for U.S. taxpayers.
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law
The Democratic candidate's campaign singled out the so-called "Enron loophole" for allowing speculators to run up the cost of fuel by operating outside federal regulation
Pope Benedict XVI concluded his six-day visit to the United States with a final address Sunday, thanking Americans for their hospitality and calling on people worldwide to pursue "justice and peaceful coexistence."
The Democratic presidential race is tightening in Pennsylvania ahead of its April 22 primary, according to a new CNN analysis of recent polls in the key campaign state.
A committee of the New Jersey Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution that would make the state the first north of the Mason-Dixon line to apologize for slavery.
The man who raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka -- the 1994 crime that inspired "Megan's Law" -- is one of eight men whose sentences were commuted to life in prison this week as part of New Jersey's new ban on execution.
The year was 1968. I was covering the summer Olympics in Mexico City and I was on my way to one of the venues, driving on the Pereferique, the freeway that ringed the city. All of a sudden there was this tremendous commotion of horns and sirens and flashing lights behind me. I thought it surely must be an ambulance or a hospital emergency and pulled the wheel right, hitting the shoulder of the road and nearly flipping.
When the story first came out, the only appropriate response was sympathy. Jon Corzine, the well-regarded governor of New Jersey and former co-CEO of Goldman Sachs, was critically injured last week in an accident on the Garden State Parkway. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Camden with a broken leg, collarbone, a dozen ribs, and other injuries.
The driver of the pickup that may have been involved in the crash that critically injured New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has been found, police said late Saturday afternoon.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was hurt in a car accident Thursday evening while traveling to host a meeting between the Rutgers University women's basketball team and former radio host Don Imus.
Facing pressure from the state's top court, the New Jersey Legislature voted Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the rights and privileges of marriage, while using the term "civil unions" to describe the partnerships.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed a $30.9 billion compromise state budget into law Saturday evening, formally ending a financial impasse that essentially shut down the state and some of its businesses.
Atlantic City's 12 casinos began shutting down for the first time ever at 8 a.m. ET Wednesday morning as the New Jersey budget crisis that began July 1 continued.
By every traditional standard -- historical patterns, the president's low approval ratings, current polls -- the Democrats ought to feel optimistic about taking back both houses of Congress.
Republicans in Congress are crafting a solution under which the controversial deal allowing a state-owned Arab company to run some terminals at six U.S. ports could move forward.
New Jersey Gov.-elect Jon Corzine will name Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, as his successor in the U.S. Senate, multiple New Jersey Democratic sources told CNN Wednesday.
The National Republican Senate Committee is backing Tom Kean Jr., the son of a former governor, in its quest to capture New Jersey's open U.S. Senate seat next year.
You know the classic definition of inflation? "Too much money chasing too few goods." Well, off-year elections provide fertile ground for a different kind of inflation: too many political pundits chasing too few items of significance.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he twice offered President Bush his resignation during the height of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, but the president refused to accept it.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has joined other Republicans in criticizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
WHEN JON CORZINE WAS FORCED OUT as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs in 1999 and breezed into his New Jersey Senate seat in 2000, most politicos saw the tall, bearded, former Illinois farmboy as a political ...
Goldman Sachs shares, already under pressure with the rest of the financial services sector, could face more difficulty soon as insiders get the ability to unload stock awards.
The White House says it hopes a new U.N. resolution for Iraq will encourage other nations to participate in aiding security and reconstruction. Meanwhile, the Bush administration's Iraq policy is facing tough questioning on Capitol Hill as the deadline for the transfer of power to Iraqis grows closer.
There's an elite Wall Street firm that has embedded itself in America's power structure, in both the Republican and Democratic parties, with representatives in key decision-making positions in the ...
Congress has spent a lot of time talking about changing the rules on 401(k) plans, but it hasn't done much this year to actually alter the laws that govern them. It was too busy passing a war resol...
Two developments on the 401(k) front had me pretty shaken up recently. First came news that thousands of workers at Enron--the now bankrupt Houston energy company--lost much of their 401(k) savings...
If there's a consensus about anything in Washington, it's that 401(k)s have to be better protected. But beneath the accord, there are deep divisions. Democrats are eager to impose new restrictions,...
At $92.60 per vote, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg is hardly the top bidder in the recent annals of self-financed political races. And, hey, when you figure the $69 million that he spent is mer...
Jon Corzine wants the federal government's economic stimulus package to include much greater spending on public transportation, emergency services and airline security. Here's what's in some of the...
It's been about two months since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. And while the White House and Congress have moved swiftly on legislation aimed at everything from rebuilding ground zero to getti...
It's not often that a multimillionaire, let alone someone worth $300 million, visits a soup kitchen. But that's exactly where Jon Corzine, one of Wall Street's wealthiest former chieftains, could b...
Okay, I know we're a month into the new year already, but I still haven't done my predictions for 1999. Hey--I got so caught up day-tradin' Net stocks that I haven't had a moment to come up for air...
On the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 19, most of Goldman Sachs' 189 partners are to gather at the firm's New York headquarters for a hallowed ritual--the biennial awarding of that ultimate badge of Wal...
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The poor wretches. Those bankers, traders, and analysts on Wall Street who pocket seven-figure bonuses year after year, through good times and bad, are underpaid.
In 1993, Goldman Sachs made a stunning $2.3 billion in profits (before personal income taxes payable by each partner). The share going to even the most junior of partners is believed to have been a...
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