With Republicans sweeping top offices in Virginia and New Jersey, this much is clear: The 2009 off-year elections are not a referendum on Barack Obama.

Republican candidate Bob McDonnell becomes the winner and the elected Virginia governor. This election result may be the breaking news of the 2009 elections and here is why.

The exit polls of the 2009 New Jersey race showed some very revealing picture of what issues concern the New Jersey voters the most. The initial results show that property taxes and the economy top the voter concernt in NJ.

The Minnesota canvassing board has certified Al Franken as the winner of November's U.S. Senate election in the great state of Minnesota. Nonetheless, despite having virtually no chance of victory, Norm Coleman is vowing to file suit in an attempt to drag out the process of Senator-elect Franken's victory.

The Center for Responsive Politics has released a shocking report which shows that Barack Obama actually received more money from the Bigger Oil Companies than John McCain.

Mazen Asbahi has resigned from Obama’s campaign team. The attorney who had volunteered to bolster Barack Obama’s relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans resigned after several reports linking him to a fundamentalist imam. Mazen Asbahi is an associate with a Chicago law firm called Schiff Hardin.