New York Election

Sam Stein

Cuomo Faces Strategic Choices In Filling Weiner's Seat

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.16.2011

WASHINGTON -- The process to fill the soon-to-be-vacant seat of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) may not be as smooth or as simple as initial reports sugg...

Democrats Press Advantage On Controversial GOP Medicare Plan

Posted 07.26.2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Wednesday defeated a Republican plan to scale back health benefits for future retirees and forced their...

Paul Ryan, GOP Defend Controversial Medicare Plan Amid Threat Of Backlash

Posted 07.25.2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Wednesday rushed to defend their drive to cut government health spending amid signs it may spur a backlash f...

Sam Stein

Steve Israel, DCCC Chair, Turns Sights To 97 Republicans And Unseating Paul Ryan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Tuesday night's upset victory in upstate New York's special election, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign C...

Ryan Grim

Why Medicare Will Be The Issue Of 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.24.2011

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 election found its defining issue on Tuesday night, with an insurgent Democrat upsetting a well-financed Republican in a deeply...

Democrat Projected Winner In New York Special Election

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2011

On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press called the special election for New York's 26th district House seat for Democrat Kathy Hochul over Republican...

New York Election Results: Kathy Hochul Projected Winner

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2011

Democrats picked off a heavily Republican upstate New York congressional seat Tuesday night in a special election that became a referendum on Medicare...

WATCH: House Candidate Appears To Strike GOP Volunteer

Posted 07.12.2011

House candidate Jack Davis, who is running as an independent in a special election match-up for New York's 26th district congressional seat, appears t...

Bloomberg Says: Tweet Your Election Day Complaints

dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

MANHATTAN -- Got a problem with your ballot? Get on Twitter or call 311. That's the advice of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced Thursday via T...

Election Day: What To Watch For In New Jersey, New York And Virgiia

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...

Why I Voted Against Michael Bloomberg (It Wasn't the 3rd Term Folly)

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Sherman Yellen

Nobody has wrecked the nature of New York as a habitable city for the middle class as much as Bloomberg has in the past eight years.

New York State and New Jersey Elections Live

HuffingtonPost | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York City Elections: Real Estate's The Hot Issue

Gotham Gazette | Courtney Gross | Posted 05.25.2011

The real estate market is reeling but that has not stopped the industry from doling out $2.5 million to candidate for citywide office this year and mo...