Election 2008

November 11, 2008 - Labor union members and workers looking for economic change voted in large numbers for Barak Obama this month. The union vote helped secure white middle-class voters for Obama in battleground industrial states like Pennsylvania and Ohio,

November 10, 2008 - One of the biggest questions in the 2008 election was this: Will whites in the South vote not just for Democratic president, but for the first major African-American candidate in history?

November 10, 2008 - Come January, President Bush will be retiring to a state that's becoming bluer.

November 10, 2008 - The 2008 elections were the first big test for same-day voter registration in North Carolina, a reform passed by a coalition of advocates in 2007.

November 10, 2008 - Barack Obama's victory in North Carolina and Virginia has attracted a lot of attention. But Obama also made a surprise bid for Georgia, a more deeply Republican state in the Deep South. What were the results?

November 7, 2008 - There was a lot of hype going into Election Day that an historic election and a tight race would drive up voter turnout to record levels in 2008. But did turnout revolution materialize?

November 7, 2008 - Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel has threatened to report Fulton County -- the center of metro Atlanta -- to the state Election Board for following improper procedures while counting absentee ballots. The county's final tally is crucial in determining the still-unsettled U.S.