By JOCELYN NOVECK Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold, maybe apple pie with ice cream, some football on TV. Getting together with the cousins. Catching up beside the fire. Togetherness. On second thought: Scratch that. What were we thinking? This was an election year. “The Thanksgiving table will be a battleground,” says Andrew [...]
By JULIE CARR SMYTH COLUMBUS (AP) — State lawmakers moved forward Wednesday with a bill that would send Planned Parenthood to the back of the line for public family-planning money, even as crowds of chanting protesters lined the Statehouse halls to oppose the measure. The Health and Aging Committee planned a vote later Wednesday [...]
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Imagine having an election where candidates were criticized for campaigning. Strange, right? Unless it’s the Bowl Championship Series. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, who was an aspiring politician before settling into a very successful coaching career, is currently in the unenviable position of being the third-wheel [...]
By JIM ABRAMS WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said it was time to address immigration policy and urged President Barack Obama to take the lead in coming up with a plan that would look at both improved enforcement of immigration law and the future of the estimated 11 million people living [...]
Nov. 8, 1912 Madison County Democrat — Jacob Frey and wife, of West Jefferson, spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, William Whisner and wife, of Lafayette. Jacob and daughter Agnes, and son Jacob of Columbus, spent one day last week with the former’s nephew, Jacob Frey and wife. — The members of the Harmony Club [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats won a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio and Connecticut to maintain the control they’ve held since 2007. With a third of the Senate up for election, Republicans were undone by candidate stumbles, with [...]
BOSTON (AP) — His reach for the presidency thwarted, Mitt Romney stayed out of sight late Tuesday as news organizations including The Associated Press announced that President Barack Obama had won a second term. Dejected Romney supporters milled around a hotel ballroom where the Republican hopeful had planned to declare victory and groaned as key [...]
By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama won the reliably Democratic Northeast, and Republican Mitt Romney secured his conservative base Tuesday night in a duel for the White House shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment. The critical battlegrounds with the key to victory were unsettled, Virginia, Ohio and Florida among them, [...]
