KOLO - 2010 Election

Reid's Early Ad Barrage Shaped Nevada Race
Last Updated: 6:29 PM 11/03/10 - Republicans said for months that if the Nevada Senate race was a referendum on Harry Reid, the unpopular Majority Leader would lose.
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Latinos, Blacks Ride GOP Wave to Major Wins
Last Updated: 5:33 PM 11/03/10 - Republican Hispanic lawmakers had a groundbreaking year in the 2010 midterm elections, picking up two governor posts - the first ever for a Latina - while holding onto a U.S. Senate seat and adding several congressional seats.
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Clark DA, Sheriff Re-Elected
Last Updated: 5:08 PM 11/03/10 - The Clark County district attorney fended off a former judge, and the region's top cop easily won re-election after law-and-order campaigns against lesser-known challengers.
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A Rundown of Local Election Results
Last Updated: 4:18 PM 11/03/10 - Your local officials have been elected. Here are some of the results.
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Voters Embrace Several Tea Party Candidates
Last Updated: 11:50 AM 11/03/10 - Voters embraced the tea party's conservative throw-the-bums-out anthem in key races across the country, with the movement's favored candidates taking more than a dozen House seats held by Democrats, three Senate races and the South Carolina governorship.
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Calif. Voters Give Brown a Return Trip as Governor
Last Updated: 10:16 PM 11/02/10 - Democrat Jerry Brown was elected California governor on Tuesday in an extraordinary political encore, defeating billionaire Republican Meg Whitman and the $142 million she spent of her own fortune to reclaim the office he held a generation ago.
Sandoval Elected Governor of Nevada
Last Updated: 12:15 AM 11/03/10 - Republican Brian Sandoval has defeated Democrat Rory Reid to become the first Hispanic governor in Nevada's history.
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Reid Winner Of Nevada's US Senate Seat
Last Updated: 6:46 PM 11/03/10 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going back to Congress.
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GOP Takes Obama's Old Senate Seat in Illinois
Last Updated: 9:48 PM 11/02/10 - A Republican is taking over President Barack Obama's old Senate seat in Illinois.
Exit Poll: Most NV Voters Say Tea Party Non-Factor
Last Updated: 11:46 AM 11/03/10 - Nearly six in 10 Nevada voters say the nationwide tea party movement wasn't a factor in their vote in the 2010 Senate race, an Associated Press analysis of preliminary exit poll results shows.
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Re-Elected Heller Congratulates Sandoval On Governorship Victory
Last Updated: 11:45 AM 11/03/10 - Heller releases a statement congratulating Nevada's new governor Republican Brian Sandoval.
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More Results Are In: Brown Wins California
Last Updated: 9:49 PM 11/02/10 - More results are coming in and Democratic candidate Brown wins California. Here is a list of the winners so far.
Dems Keep Senate Majority, GOP Grabs 5 Seats
Last Updated: 11:49 AM 11/03/10 - Democrats lost Senate seats in at least five states Tuesday, but were guaranteed to keep the majority thanks to wins in California and West Virginia.
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Republican Dean Heller Locks Down Easy Win
Last Updated: 11:50 AM 11/03/10 - Republican Rep. Dean Heller coasted to a third term victory, brushing aside a relatively unknown challenger in a rural Nevada district that has never elected a Democrat.
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Rory Reid Trailing Brian Sandoval for Governor
Last Updated: 8:42 PM 11/02/10 - The race for governor is heatring up with Democratic candidate Rory Reid trailing Republican candidate Brian Sandoval.
Nevada Senate Race Results Favoring Sen. Reid
Last Updated: 8:37 PM 11/02/10 - Nevada Senate race is a tight one with a narrow margin polled so far.
Nevada Vote Results Delayed by Long Lines in Elko
Last Updated: 8:00 PM 11/02/10 - Nevada election officials say a power outage at a Las Vegas-area polling place has been resolved, but long lines in Elko are delaying the reporting of statewide voting results.
Republicans Gain More Than 40 House Seats So Far
Last Updated: 8:56 PM 11/02/10 - Republicans have picked up enough seats held by Democrats in the House to regain control of the chamber if they hold their current edge in undecided races.
Republican Tom Corbett Has Defeated Democrat Onorato
Last Updated: 7:38 PM 11/02/10 - Republican Tom Corbett has defeated Democrat Dan Onorato (oh-no-RAH'-toh) in the race for Pennsylvania governor.
Ivory Coast: First Election Results Released
Last Updated: 7:25 PM 11/02/10 - Authorities in Ivory Coast released the first major results late Tuesday from the volatile West African country's presidential vote, as tensions mounted amid fears of possible violence.
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Patrick Bucks GOP Tide to Win Re-Election in Mass.
Last Updated: 7:18 PM 11/02/10 - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick won a second term Tuesday with the help of some of the same political advisers who hope to do the same in two years for his friend President Barack Obama.
Polling Officials, Secretary Of State Report Few, If Any Voting Irregularities
Last Updated: 7:34 PM 11/02/10 - It was chaos as usual for the employees at the Registrar of Voters. We saw phones ringing off of the hook and ballots being tallied every where we looked.
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New GOP Governor in Michigan
Last Updated: 7:26 PM 11/02/10 - Michigan's new governor is a Republican who has said he can ease the state's economic troubles.
Paul, Rubio Hand Tea Party Early Victories
Last Updated: 6:10 PM 11/02/10 - The tea party is sending two of its favorite sons to the Senate with decisive victories for Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.
National List of Newly Elected Officials
Last Updated: 6:10 PM 11/02/10 - National list of newly elected officials.
Blumenthal Bests McMahon for Conn. Senate Seat
Last Updated: 6:08 PM 11/02/10 - Connecticut's longtime Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has won the state's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, defeating a multimillionaire former wrestling executive and keeping the seat in Democratic control.
AP Sources: Emanuel Leaving White House On Friday
Last Updated: 10:42 AM 09/30/10 - Rahm Emanuel will resign as White House chief of staff on Friday and will begin his campaign for Chicago mayor by meeting with voters in the city on Monday, two sources familiar with Emanuel's plans said.
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Tea Party Favorite O'Donnell Wins In Delaware
Last Updated: 5:09 AM 09/15/10 - The candidate backed by establishment Republicans as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has taken the lead over a tea-party favorite in New Hampshire's Republican Senate primary.
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Colo. Candidate Regrets Slam Against Tea Party
Last Updated: 7:48 AM 07/26/10 - Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck is apologizing for disparaging remarks he made about tea party members who question President Obama's birth certificate.
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Failure of WCSD#1: Devastating Blow For Local Schools
Last Updated: 12:46 PM 11/06/08 - Local schools suffered a major blow in Tuesday night's election, when Washoe County School District's Question One failed by a margin of almost ten percent.
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New Attitude: Obama Vows Change, Agency By Agency
Last Updated: 8:50 AM 11/05/08 - President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to reverse or sharply modify many of the Bush administration's policies.
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Washoe, Clark Voters Approve Higher Room Taxes
Last Updated: 8:12 AM 11/05/08 - Voters in Washoe and Clark counties have approved advisory questions to increase motel and hotel room taxes to help fund public education.
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President-Elect Obama Faces Daunting Challenges
Last Updated: 2:15 PM 11/05/08 - With 76 days before Inauguration Day, Barack Obama now turns to the task of building an administration.
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Local Civil Rights Activist Celebrates Historic Victory
Last Updated: 10:24 PM 11/04/08 - 83-year-old Vice-President of NAACP thought he would never see an African-American in the Oval Office.
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Election Officials Brace for Record Turnout as Nevada Voters Head to Polls
Last Updated: 8:47 AM 11/04/08 - Nearly two years of political wrangling, rhetoric and spending in Nevada ends today when voters finish a presidential election like no other in the state's history.
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VOTE 2008: California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban A $73M Race
Last Updated: 7:03 AM 11/04/08 - The battle over gay marriage in California has turned into one of the most expensive social issue campaigns in U.S. history.
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VOTE 2008: Obama Casts Ballot In Chicago Neighborhood
Last Updated: 6:22 AM 11/04/08 - Barack Obama has cast his ballot in the election he hopes will make him the country's first black president.
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VOTE 2008: World Hopes For A 'Less Arrogant America'
Last Updated: 6:17 AM 11/04/08 - The world was riveted by the election drama unfolding Tuesday in the United States, inspired by the hope embodied by Barack Obama or simply relieved that - whoever wins - the administration that spawned Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was coming to an end.
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VOTE 2008: Palin Arrives In Alaska To Cast Ballot In Election
Last Updated: 6:10 AM 11/04/08 - Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin has arrived in Alaska to cast a ballot for president in her hometown of Wasilla.
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VOTE 2008: Record Number Of Voter Expected To Deluge Polls
Last Updated: 6:11 AM 11/04/08 - Beyond the legal challenges, monitoring by attorneys for both parties and the usual paper jams, a few other problems have been reported during early voting in today's national elections.
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VOTE 2008: Obama Fills In Ballot At Chicago Precinct
Last Updated: 6:13 AM 11/04/08 - Democrat Barack Obama is joining the nation's earliest voters in filling in a ballot in his historic presidential contest with Republican John McCain.
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Palin Appeals To Nevadans To Help Swing Election
Last Updated: 3:57 AM 11/04/08 - RENO, Nev. (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appealed to Nevadans' patriotism and Western, rural work ethic Monday night to help swing the election as she neared the end of a daylong dash through five contested states.
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Last Minute Push For Votes
Last Updated: 8:09 PM 11/03/08 - With just over 24 hours until election day polls will close, both presidential campaigns are making one last push to score votes.
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Campaigns Ramp Up Efforts in Washoe
Last Updated: 1:28 PM 11/03/08 - Both Democrats and Republicans say they are intensifying efforts in the Reno area with election day only one full day away.
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Early Voting Over for Nevadans
Last Updated: 2:06 PM 11/02/08 - Nevada voters may play a key role in deciding this year's Presidential election. According to Washoe County Registrar of Voters, Dan Burk, that’s one reason why early voters have turned out in record numbers over the past two weeks.
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Early, Absentee Voters in Nevada Cross Half-Million Mark
Last Updated: 1:57 PM 10/30/08 - Early and absentee voters in Nevada passed the half-million mark by midday Thursday, with Democrats still maintaining a big edge over Republicans in the state's population centers of Las Vegas and Reno.
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Will Your Ballot Count?
Last Updated: 5:46 AM 10/30/08 - With just a week until we know who our next President will be, voters are scrambling to the polls to cast their votes but will their ballots count?
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Local Businesses See Political Profits
Last Updated: 6:59 PM 10/28/08 - During these tough economic times, many business owners are looking for ways to help them stay afloat. And recently, their efforts have taken a political turn.
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Palin Adds To Wardrobe Before Reno Campaign Stop
Last Updated: 2:29 PM 10/24/08 - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's wardrobe has grown - even after $150,000 worth of designer clothes, hairstyling and accessories the Republican Party provided for her.
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State Question 2
Last Updated: 4:54 AM 10/24/08 - This is the second time the Eminent Domain question has appeared on the ballot. If passed by voters, it will change the state constitution.
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