Analysis: Nervous voters send message to Obama: PHOTO
NEW YORK — Voters nervous about The Economy and fed up with the political establishment dominated the off-year Elections, sending a strong message to President Barack Obama, who won The White House as a change agent but has himself become the face of political power and incumbency.

The Associated Press: GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Washington — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine...

Analysis: Nervous voters send message to Obama
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GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell 's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled...

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell 's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled...

Dems, incumbents get wake-up call
RICHMOND, Va. — Eager to drain the 2009 Elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was “not watching returns.” You can be sure that he is studying them closely now: The off-year Elections were in two big races an unmistakable rebuke of Democrats , reshuffling Obama’s political circumstances in ways likely to have severe near-term consequences for his policy agenda and larger governing...

STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job
WASHINGTON (AP)

The Obama magic has faded
All politics is local, they say, and Tuesday’s off-off-year Elections certainly had their local angles. Jon Corzine has been a terrible Governor even by the undemanding standards of terribly governed

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ - Yahoo! News
Washington – Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year . Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine...

'Messiah' prez hardly looks like a savior just 1 year later: PHOTO
So this is the postpartisan politics President Obama promised us.

Dem Corzine ousted in N.J., GOP takes Va.
TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie ousted New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine in Tuesday's election, a Republican victory in a typically Democratic state. With 81 percent of the districts counted, Christie had about 49 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Corzine, leading by around 100,000 votes, The New York Times reported. Independent Chris Daggett , a former Republican environmental official, had 5 percent of the vote. President Barack Obama made three visits to the...

Obama's half brother: Our father was abusive: PHOTO
President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel

GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Bob McDonnell has easily won the Virginia Governor's race just a year after the state went overwhelmingly for President Barack Obama and the Democrats. Unofficial results show the former Attorney General defeating Creigh (kree) Deeds and returning a Republican to the Governor's office for the first time in eight years. This race and the contest for Governor of New Jersey are viewed as the first referendum on the president and the Democratic Congress before the...

Japan grapples with US base plan before Obama visit: PHOTO
Tokyo, Nov 4

FIRST LADY LAUNCHES MENTORING PROGRAM FOR GIRLS: Local high school students to be paired with senior women from White House staff.
      *First Lady Michelle Obama has announced a year-long mentoring program at The White House for high school girls from the surrounding neighborhood.        The 13 chosen students gathered in the State Dining room on Monday to meet The White House staff members who will serve as their mentors, among them, senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, domestic policy advisor Melody Barnes, Obama's chief of staff Susan Sher and social secretary Desiree...

GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia Governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year delivered the state to President Barack Obama shifted to the GOP, handing the party a convincing sweep of statewide offices. Unofficial results showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state Attorney General, with nearly two-thirds of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican Governor in eight years. "I just got tackled by my...

The Associated Press: Republican Christie captures NJ governor's race
TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Chris Christie has defeated Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey. With 71 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Christie had 50 percent of the vote to Corzine's 44 percent. Christie, a 47-year-old former federal prosecutor, became the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey. The Republican victory deals a blow to President Barack Obama as he readies for next year's midterm Elections....

Christie garners 49% to Corzine's 45%
WHEN HE stood with New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine in Camden on Sunday, President Obama urged voters to become "ambassadors of change." Voters yesterday embraced that message of change, just not the kind the president was talking about. Republican challenger Christopher J. Christie, a former corruption-busting U.S. attorney, capped his arduous bid for the state's highest elected office by knocking Democrat Corzine out of office after one term with 49 percent of the vote to 45 percent...

Virginia, New Jersey elect Republican governors
Reporting from San Francisco and Washington - Republicans seized the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, giving the GOP a psychological boost heading into next year's midterm Elections. The two parties were also battling in a pair of House races in New York and California. Republicans were quick to cast their wins as a referendum on the president and a severe setback for Obama. But any meaning was muddied by differences among Tuesday's assorted campaigns, which were shaped more...

N.Y.C. Mayor Michael Bloomberg survives scare
Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s stunningly narrow re-election in New York was a moral defeat for the billionaire incumbent, and a profound embarrassment for a Democratic establishment – from The White House on down — that abandoned his rival, City Comptroller Bill Thompson, as a hopeless loser. Bloomberg’s meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York’s Democratic donors hadn’t turned their back on Thompson, if its politicians had...

Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father
President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel -- the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own Memoir. In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of Domestic Violence. "My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth...

“V” (8 p.m., ABC): In the gripping sci-fi remake “V,” aliens drop in on
“V” (8 p.m., ABC): In the gripping sci-fi remake “V,” aliens drop in on Earth, preaching peace and harmony. But is it a ruse? Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost”) plays a suspicious FBI agent. “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama” (9 p.m., HBO): This absorbing Documentary is an up-close-and-personal look at Obama's historic two-year journey to The White House. Filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams had unmatched access to the campaign as it moved through the arduous primary...

After "Messy" Process, President Obama Congratulates Afghanistan's “Legitimate”
President Obama telephoned Hamid Karzai at roughly 1:45 pm ET this afternoon, delivering to him the best wishes of the United States for a second presidential term after an election fraught with corruption and accusations of illegitimacy.