It has been said over and over again: The 2010 midterm is the anti-incumbent, anti-Washington and by virtue of their position in power, the anti-Democratic election.
At their maiden campaign event together for the midterm election, First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama mixed playful banter with a hardcore political pitch to re-elect Democratic incumbents in Ohio and across the country.
An Ohio death row inmate who has repeatedly claimed his innocence was spared execution, after the state's governor Thursday noted "legitimate questions" about evidence used to convict the man.
Poor John Kasich. When he made that fateful decision in January 2001, he was just doing what politicians have done since time immemorial: he was taking a cushy Wall Street job between a couple of public office gigs in order to pad the family pocketbook.
Ohio has executed its second inmate using a new one-drug method, officials said Thursday.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted Ohio's request to resume scheduled executions next month when the state will use a new, untested one-drug method of lethal injection.
Ohio's governor granted temporary reprieves to two death row inmates just hours after a federal appeals court blocked the execution of one of them -- adding to the mounting confusion over the state's capital punishment system.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday gave a death-row inmate a one-week reprieve after authorities tried for hours to find a vein to administer his lethal injection.
State officials nationwide are wrestling with yet another round of budget shortfalls, this time due to plummeting April income tax revenues.
A man who stabbed his mother to death while on a crack-cocaine binge was spared lethal injection Thursday after Ohio's governor commuted his sentence to life in prison.
The big cities are mostly locked up, but Obama and McCain are trying to sway the swing areas in three key regions
An Ohio death row inmate who says he is too overweight to be executed took his plea to the Supreme Court on Friday.
Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential search team on Tuesday shared with a Democratic senator the names of about 20 people under consideration to be the presumptive Democratic nominee's running mate.
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser goes over how deep the divisions are between McCain and Obama's positions.
Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair
Democratic congressional candidates are scrambling to distance themselves from Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who is caught up in a sex scandal
The political battle over whether state Attorney General Marc Dann should leave office has taken on the feel of a standoff
Days before the Iowa caucuses, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter criticized the state's privileged role in the presidential nominating process, forcing her campaign to declare she did not agree.
Gov. Ted Strickland surveyed the heavily flooded village of Ottawa and urged the federal government to declare a major disaster in north-central Ohio
Ohio residents removed piles of waterlogged carpet, couches and upended refrigerators from their homes Sunday.
Storms slammed rain-soaked Ohio on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains.
The worst flooding in almost a century forced hundreds of people from their homes in the upper Midwest, while more dangerous weather caused new misery and disruptions in the region Thursday.
Town dries as neighbor floods
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