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Hurricane Sandy calls for a federal response. Not donated canned goods.

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie said President Obama has been “outstanding” in his response to the disaster that hit the East Coast.

Mitt Romney has too many campaign-attested priorities that would make a Go Big deal all but unaffordable with him in the White House.

As governor, Mitt Romney insisted that his top legal staff individually review the circumstances of every birth to same-sex parents.

GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock stirred controversy this week when he said pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended to happen.”

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama.

Republican Barbara Bellar boasts on her website and on the campaign trail for the 18th District state Senate seat that she was once a Catholic nun.

There is a deep irony here: The tea party faithful, who claimed they wanted to shake up Washington, have wound up perpetuating the old system.

A 31-year-old man working for the Virginia Republican Party was arrested on Thursday after he was caught throwing out voter registration forms.

Nearly half of Chicago residents oppose gambling expansion proposal, according to a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV survey.