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Democrats to force change in Iraq policy
Nov 9 2006 11:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Emboldened by their congressional election triumph and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation, Democrats say they will use their new clout to force a change in Iraq policy and demand that President Bush start bringing troops home.
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Allen concedes; Senate control to Dems
Nov 9 2006 11:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen conceded Thursday in the ultra-close election that sealed his defeat and transfers Senate control to the Democrats, an improbable shift that dramatically alters the government's balance of power.
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Still work ahead for lame-duck Congress
Nov 9 2006 11:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans may want nothing more than to go home and nurse their election wounds, but the lame-duck Congress has lots of work ahead.
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Schumer, Emanuel engineer party's win
Nov 9 2006 11:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Excuse the fathers of the Democrats' improbable success _ Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Rahm Emanuel _ if they do a bit of chest-thumping, high-fiving and strutting.
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Iowa Gov. Vilsack running for president
Nov 9 2006 6:16PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a centrist Democrat seeking an early edge in an all-but-certain crowded presidential field, launched a long-shot bid for the White House Thursday.
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Navajo president hopeful about Dems
Nov 9 2006 12:33PM (CT)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - The newly re-elected president of the Navajo Nation said he hopes that the Democrats' takeover of Congress will help the nation's largest American Indian reservation, saying it was hard to win federal money from Republicans.
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Democrats win control of Congress
Nov 9 2006 10:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a rout once considered almost inconceivable, Democrats won a 51st seat in the Senate and regained total control of Congress after 12 years of near-domination by the Republican Party.
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Bush, Nancy Pelosi try to reconcile
Nov 9 2006 9:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day. She called him dangerous and in denial, an "emperor with no clothes" who has misled the country about Iraq and presided over an economy that still fails many. Now, President Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are making nice.
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Republicans hold onto the base
Nov 9 2006 6:58AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party ceded the center of American politics and its many groups of swing voters to the Democratic Party in the 2006 midterm elections _ with predictable results.
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Montana's Tester squeaks by GOP rival
Nov 9 2006 4:40AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Democrat Jon Tester ran as an outsider to what he called Washington's "culture of corruption" _ but got a boost from opposition to the war in Iraq and his Republican opponent's gaffe-laden campaign.
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Jim Webb wins pivotal Va. Senate race
Nov 9 2006 3:43AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Like President Bush's win in 2000, the victory that gave Democrats total control of Congress made for edge-of-your seat ballot-counting _ even after election night.
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Congressional Democrats face challenges
Nov 9 2006 3:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The anti-GOP wave that upended Congress rewarded Democrats with new opportunities to help set the national agenda and burdened them with the task of delivering on voters expectations.
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Iowa's Vilsack to run for president
Nov 9 2006 2:31AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Tom Vilsack said he will officially launch his presidential campaign Thursday when he files documents with the Federal Election Commission.
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World welcomes shift in U.S. politics
Nov 9 2006 1:11AM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens across much of the world welcomed the electoral rebuke given President Bush's Republican Party and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Wednesday.
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Iowa's Vilsack to run for president
Nov 9 2006 1:01AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Tom Vilsack said he will officially launch his presidential campaign Thursday when he files documents with the Federal Election Commission.
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