In the Minnesota Senate race, leftwing comedian Al Franken lost to the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman by only 475 votes! See. Every vote is important. (An automatic recount is underway.) The Democrats gained five seats in the Senate, with three races still too close to

It is indeed significant to have elected our first black president. This will help in exorcising our racial demons. (I read a black journalist who said that if Obama won, which he could scarcely believe would happen, that it would show that everything he believed

The people have spoken: Barack Obama has been elected president. And he has won big, with no doubts, controversies, or hanging chads. He has 349 electoral votes to John McCain’s 147.

I voted this morning, with no waiting and an efficient operation. In Virginia, at least in our district, we went back from voting machines to old-fashioned, color-in-the-circle paper ballots. As a result, the election officials could set up a bunch of little booths, since all

Thanks for yesterday’s closing arguments on the election. Some thoughts: (1) No one making the case for Obama talked about how salutary it would be to elect a black man, how this would help heal our nation’s racial wounds and make the world like us

I don’t know if this is happening everywhere, just in the battleground states, just in Virginia, or just in states that require election officers to audibly repeat the name and address of voters as they check in. But this practice disturbs me. From Parties Assign

Many conservatives are consoling themselves that a time of political exile will do them good, a chance to purify the Republican party for a later comeback. Michael Medved, a political conservative himself, says that just does not happen: History shows conclusively that a bitter defeat