Independents fuel GOP victories in Va., N.J.

Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller

McDonnell, Christie lead party momentum

The independent voters who powered President Obama and Democrats to victory in 2008 fled to Republicans in Tuesday's elections.

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• Need for Republican unity seen as election lesson

  5 AM Stephen Dinan

  

  "Tea party" activists say Tuesday's elections show that the Republican Party needs conservatives for victory, but the results suggest solidarity is more important: unified Republicans steamrolled in Virginia, while they fractured in New York and ... Continue reading »

• Huckabee: Election results prove widespread dissatisfaction

  10 AM Joseph Weber

  

  Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that his party's election victories was no off-year fluke and that congressional Democrats face more losses because voters are increasingly dissatisfied with how Democrats are running the ... Continue reading »

• Maine voters reject gay-marriage law

  5 AM David Crary and Glenn Adams ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive ... Continue reading »

• Democrats: GOP backlash likely in '10

  5 AM Jon Ward

  Top Democrats predicted that the backlash against the Republican Party in a New York congressional election Tuesday marked the start of a wave that will continue in key 2010 Senate races, saying they think independent ... Continue reading »

• CURL: Deeds' supporters feel weight of failed campaign

  5 AM Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER

  

  At the exact minute polls closed in Virginia -- 7 p.m. -- the first song of the night came on the loudspeakers in a completely empty ballroom at the Westin Hotel, where not one supporter ... Continue reading »