The presidential election is less than three weeks away, and 2,517 Boston University students have the opportunity to vote absentee in swing states, where public opinion is so evenly divided that no ...

— -- After what seems like an eternity, the process of selecting the next American president is almost over. As in all good elections, it had cheap shots and low blows coming from all sides, ...

Rock the Vote uses music and popular culture to get young people involved in politics, so it's probably no surprise that the group is using Facebook to reach plugged-in voters. More than 25,000 people ...

Voters carried concerns over the economy, health care and war to the polls. Nov. 4, 2008 — -- ANALYSIS By MOLLYANNE BRODIE, SCOTT CLEMENT, PEYTON CRAIGHILL, CLAUDIA DEANE, BRIAN HARTMAN, GARY ...

1. It’s clearly an historic moment in the United States when we have elected an African American president for the first time. Whether Republican or Democratic, we all can be proud and excited about ...

New York’s 31 Electoral Votes helped to secure the Presidential victory for Obama. In New York, then-Democratic nominee Barack Obama took 62.9% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee John McCain ...

A drug felon was sentenced to time already served Monday after pleading guilty to an offense related to lying about her felony conviction on a voter registration form she signed before the 2008 ...

Regarding Marc Fisher's Oct. 26 Metro column, "In Early Voting Trend, Democracy Is the Biggest Loser": When I voted in person in one recent election, the only "communal experience" I shared with my ...

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