President Obama’s tone was upbeat despite election losses.
President Obama shook off an electoral drubbing and said he was eager to find common ground, but he also vowed to bypass Congress to change the immigration system.
The president opened the door to a lengthy, potentially contentious debate over the nature and extent of American engagement in Iraq and Syria.
What might happen in the final months of a Democratic-led Congress.
Tax reform, international trade and budget policy may offer common ground for Democrats and Republicans in President Obama’s final two years in office.
After winning full control of Congress, Republicans plan to move quickly to show they can legislate, aware that they risk a backlash if they fail to deliver.
As the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell has been a constant foil to the president’s agenda. Now he’s expected to be the majority leader. Can two political combatants function together without driving each other crazy?
Congressional Republicans are likely to go for smaller, bipartisan measures before working on bigger goals like cutting taxes.
Now, 40 years after he was first elected governor, the question will be what Jerry Brown, 76, intends to do with his power.
Maps of precinct-level results from some of the closest Senate races.
Contests that were expected to be close were not, and races expected to go Democratic broke narrowly for the Republicans.
An emboldened Speaker John A. Boehner warned on Thursday that President Obama risked “burning himself” if he takes unilateral action to reform the United States immigration system.
A powerful lesson for both parties emerged Tuesday: Demographic shifts that are gradually reshaping the American electorate cannot overcome a difficult political environment and a weak message.
The election was a pivotal moment for the “super PACs” and political nonprofit groups that helped the party defeat Democrats across the country.
The midterm election results that rolled in on Tuesday night were unremitting good news for Republicans.
After decades of decline from once-total control of the South, Democrats already had little left to lose before the election.
The national Democratic party has been out of favor in the South for decades, and now the party has become a toxic brand for local politicians.
Latinos voted two to one for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections, but Republican gains in key races showed a possible tactic for cutting that lead in 2016.
Representative Steve Israel is stepping down as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, turning down a request from Representative Nancy Pelosi to return for a third term, but is hoping to remain within the Democratic House leadership.
With Representative Steve Israel of Long Island as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, his party lost 14 House seats nationwide, including three in New York.
With the states acting as laboratories for legislation that cannot advance in Washington, Republican policy changes are likely on a variety of issues.
While Republican women fared somewhat better than Democratic women, 2014 was hardly the year of the woman.
After a long campaign, First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing of the Union army was honored for his sacrifice at Gettysburg; at the time the medal was not given posthumously.
Some appeared critical of the decision to prosecute John L. Yates, who faced a maximum of 20 years in prison for throwing back three undersize red grouper.
Gov. John W. Hickenlooper’s narrow victory over Bob Beauprez defied a wave of Republican victories in races for governor in usual Democratic strongholds like Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois.
After Wendy Davis’s lopsided defeat in the governor’s race, analysts agreed that the problems went beyond her campaign.
The race for Senate — between Dan Sullivan, a Republican, and the incumbent, Mark Begich, a Democrat — and the vote for governor were still undecided on Wednesday.
Many Democrats would have won if turnout had resembled a presidential election year. But Democrats also lost in states where turnout surpassed that of 2010.
The region’s all-Democratic House delegation will gain two Republican members, one from New Hampshire and one from Maine.
After a comfortable, across-the-board victory Tuesday, state Republican leaders proudly affirmed their conservatism and said the party should follow suit.
Beyond a forceful repudiation of President Obama, there was little uniformity on just what Republican voters wanted from their party’s new Senate majority.
If the ballot measures on Tuesday were any measure, the issue has become unmoored from partisan politics, drawing support from both sides.
Lessons for both sides of the issue are seen in votes in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C.
Significant expansions of gambling passed in three states, but were rejected in two where in-state interests balked.
For Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the wave of Republican victories in statehouses on Tuesday is helping recast his image as a team player within his wary party.
On a day when Republicans snatched up governor’s seats in traditionally Democratic states, Dannel P. Malloy’s wobbly victory took on the tone of a much larger triumph, and might have opened a narrow path to national prominence.
After landslide re-election wins, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his father, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, were accused of failing to support other Democrats on the ballot.
Mayor Bill de Blasio was depicted as a liberal boogeyman in ads by Republicans aimed at upstate voters.
A divided Legislature will put Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in a powerful position, allowing him to play deal maker between Republicans and Democrats.
Issues expected to get a new look include a corporate tax overhaul, environmental and financial regulation, trade deals and the Keystone oil pipeline.
Republican gains are likely to add to state abortion restrictions, from two-day waiting periods to bans at 20 weeks after conception to costly building requirements.
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
Mr. Warner, a Democrat, claimed victory just after midnight Tuesday, but his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, may be able to request a recount.
Could Harry Reid be deposed by his own caucus before he even has a chance to become minority leader?
New Jerseyans, in a new poll, said they preferred Gov. Chris Christie’s response to that of the federal government.
What legislative deals can the president and Congress reach now that the Senate will also be led by Republicans?
November 6, 2014
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November 6, 2014
Ready or not, the midterm elections signal the unofficial start of the next presidential campaign. Assessing the prospects of some likely candidates.
There’s another factor at play: two sides of the G.O.P. that may work against each other.
Deeper ideological divides could make compromise even harder to reach.
The elections are over. What have we learned about the efforts to analyze and predict the outcomes of various Senate races?
Successful ads are all about connecting with voters, but there is more than one way to do that, as a look at two campaigns makes clear.
It’s not easy for a Republican to become governor of Democratic-leaning Maryland, but here’s how Larry Hogan did it.
November 5, 2014
The postmortems and predictions begin on how the Democrats fell so low and what it means for the president, Oval Office aspirants and the country.
A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.
For the past year, The New York Times has asked readers to share their experiences purchasing and using health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Here is a selection of their stories.
More than 12 years after the Bush administration first sent detainees to the prison in Cuba, tensions are mounting over whether President Obama can close it before leaving office.
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