National elections
Both presidential hopefuls in South Korea promise change
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Koreans wrapped in mufflers and parkas braved frigid weather Wednesday to vote in a presidential election heading for a close finish between the two top candidates — the liberal son of North Korean refugees and the conservative daughter of a late dictator.
Date: 12/18/2012 | Nation & World
Updated election results from your neighborhood
The Snohomish County Auditor's office this week released results tallying more than 334,000 votes cast in the Nov. 6 general election. The precinct canvass, updated with the new numbers over the past couple of days, can be found
Date: 11/29/2012 | Need to Know
Obama and Congress now face an urgent task
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama faces a new urgent task now that he has a second term, working with a status-quo Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession.
Date: 11/07/2012 | Nation & World
Powerful emotions
Some of the best state images from Election Day (gallery)
Date: 11/07/2012 | Local News
Biggest poll problem: Long lines in key states
WASHINGTON -- Voters in key states such as Florida and Virginia waited in long lines hours after polls closed Tuesday night to cast ballots, even as politicians and their supporters urged them not to give up despite the long delays.
Date: 11/07/2012 | Nation & World
The day in pictures
Some of the best Election Day images from around the country
Date: 11/06/2012 | Nation & World
Party observers keep close watch on count
Anticipating a nip-and-tuck battle for governor, the state's Democratic and Republican parties are deploying volunteers and lawyers to election offices around the state to keep watch on the counting of ballots cast in today's election.
Date: 11/06/2012 | Local News
Poll challenges, phony instructions could mar vote
WASHINGTON -- Persistent reports of robocalls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the phone and fears of aggressive challenges by monitors at polling places threaten to mar Election Day in many key states, voting rights advocates said Monday.
Date: 11/06/2012 | Nation & World
President Barack Obama wins re-election
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and prevailing despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions.
Date: 11/05/2012 | Nation & World
Storm-tossed states scramble to assure election
TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry people in hard-hit coastal areas to the polls. With the presidential election looming just a week after Superstorm Sandy's...
Date: 11/05/2012 | Nation & World
Drop in military absentee ballots is no conspiracy
There's fresh data to indicate far fewer military personnel and dependents are using absentee ballots to vote this year than did in 2008.But beware of politicians or pundits who rush to label such data as proof that military voters are being "disenfranchised," voting experts caution.
Date: 11/05/2012 | Business
Dems vs. GOP: Three days to decide
WASHINGTON -- The White House, the Senate, the tea party revolution in the House and 11 governorships are on the line Tuesday in a fantastically costly, relentlessly negative election played out in unsettled economic times.
Date: 11/04/2012 | Nation & World
Shadowy group shovels $5 million to conservatives
WASHINGTON — A shadowy Tennessee company donated more than $5 million to a prominent conservative super political action committee days after establishing itself.So who's behind one of the largest batches of election contributions this year? There's a questionable trail.
Date: 10/27/2012 | Nation & World
How House races shape up across the nation
The battle for control of the House has taken a back seat to both the presidential and Senate races this election year -- mostly because it seems far less likely that the House could flip control.But that doesn't mean the House isn't important.
Date: 10/19/2012 | Nation & World
Israeli leader calls for early elections
JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister on Tuesday ordered new parliamentary elections in early 2013, roughly eight months ahead of schedule, setting the stage for a lightning quick campaign that will likely win him re-election.
Date: 10/09/2012 | Nation & World
Weeks before Election Day, early voting begins
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Heard enough from the presidential candidates? Here's an answer: Vote now and put the election behind you.
Date: 09/05/2012 | Nation & World
Rulings in play for election
Before voters get a say in this year's presidential race, lawyers and judges are having theirs.
Date: 09/03/2012 | Nation & World
Mormons quietly excited by Mitt Romney's candidacy
Officially neutral, individually excited. That's how some local Mormons feel as this week's Republican National Convention shines a light on their faith.
Date: 08/28/2012 | Local News
Senator vows to undo Citizens United
Efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which helped usher in multimillion-dollar super PACs, have died in Congress, as recently as two weeks ago. And the Supreme Court itself upheld the ruling in its most recent term. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is still...
Date: 08/01/2012 | Nation & World
NAACP head: Voter ID fight akin to 1960s battles
HOUSTON -- The head of the NAACP on Monday likened the group's fight against conservative-backed voter ID laws that have been passed in several states to the great civil rights battles of the 1960s.
Date: 07/09/2012 | Nation & World
Dem, GOP clash over financial disclosure escalates
Democrats are stepping up the pressure on politically active nonprofit groups to divulge their largest donors, part of a broader partisan debate over disclosure rules that has spilled into the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Date: 06/23/2012 | Nation & World
Nation's unions lost big in the Wisconsin showdown
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Scott Walker's definitive victory in Wisconsin's recall election is already reverberating in other state capitals. It exposed the shrunken political muscle of the unions that tried to oust him, underscoring their vulnerability to attacks from the right and inability to...
Date: 06/07/2012 | Business
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