For Democrats who value their Congressional majority, the 2009 Election results might suggest a need for caution in pursuing major new liberal initiatives until the deficit is brought down.
bloomberg.com | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey taxpayers are being saddled with a bill of about $657,000 a month from Bank of Montreal for an interest-rate swap app...
Michael Winship | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Instant analysis of election results from a handful of races in an off year election is not very significant one way or the other. We'd be wise not to buy into the tub-thumping or doomsaying of pundits posing as priestesses
Joe Territo | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
As Chris Christie prepares to become New Jersey's next governor, NJ.com is asking state residents to come up with a to-do list for him. NJ.com gets it...
Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
Unfortunately for Paterson, he has disadvantages that Corzine did not: a contested primary next September and powerful leaders opposed to his renomination.
Paul Loeb | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons -- and lessons for next time.
Neil McCarthy | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
My daughter, a freshman in college, called earlier in the semester to report that she had gotten a high mark on an English essay. The professor had ev...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Click. " -- and we're back. Time now to ask our Pack o' Pundits for the big takeaways from Tuesday's election results. What did you guys see in all...
The Newark Star Ledger | Josh Margolin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
It was the great urban legend of the campaign: With the White House worried, a frustrated Gov. Jon Corzine was having second thoughts and came close t...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What you won't hear the spinners crowing about is the shocking punch to the gut the GOP took in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, where a Democrat won for the first time in over 100 years.
Felix Salmon | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
With Jon Corzine losing the governorship of New Jersey yesterday, it was yet another bad day for former heads of Goldman Sachs. It's worth running dow...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
If you missed out on last night's election, well, don't you know that you missed out on the most important off-off-year election in our lives? It's t...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The only thing Sarah Palin can really take credit for is New York's House District 23 electing a Democrat for the first time since before The Civil War.
Politico | JOHN BOHRER | | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media
If New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine wins a second term Tuesday, it will come in spite of a struggling economy and rising unemployment. And, also, becaus...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...
AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Chris Christie, a former corruption-busting prosecutor, unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine on ...
David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
While the Democratic Party certainly has its problems right now, these contests do a better job of illustrating severe Republican weakness than anything else.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...
Joe Scarborough | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
All the president's men know that a Republican sweep in New Jersey and Virginia will strike fear in the hearts of those swing state Democrats who now hold the future of health care in their sweaty moderate hands.
AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey's candidates for governor darted through the state on the last day of a campaign being billed as a vote on President ...
Matt Dunn | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The political world is in a state of confusion right now because technology is accelerating everything. Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won't ...
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York
Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has created an election commercial that steals copyright-protected material from Monty Python without permission or credit.
Peter Connolly | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics