Election

Here's a lesson for government employees: If you're found slacking, not only can it be really embarrassing when taxpayers find out, it may land you in the unemployment line. At least that's what happened in a Florida case involving six lawmen in the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office; their names were ...

By Anne Gearan WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is keeping up a schedule of weekly visits to politically important states with a trip Wednesday to North Carolina. ...

By Derwin Dubose This year's presidential race – along with hundreds of Congressional, state and local contests – will dominate the news until Nov. 6, spurring many young professionals to seek political jobs. ...

By Shannon McCaffrey MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich pledged to take the fight to South Carolina and Florida after finishing well behind the leaders in Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican primary. "We're going to offer the American people something very different," Gingrich told about 200 supporters ...

"What was she thinking?" a lot of us asked when we heard that Democrat Martha Coakley, the supposed shoe-in for Ted Kennedy's Senatorial seat, had let the election slip through her fingers and into the hands of Republican Scott Brown. I mean, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that you shouldn't take a ...