BOSTON – Although a Republican holds the state's top public office, with barely more than 1-in-10 state voters registered as Republicans, the party has for years faced daunting odds in attempting to gain seats at both the congressional and local level.
This year will likely be worse, as a presidential election typically draws more than the usual number of voters to the polls, a tendency that makes it more difficult for a minority party to advance, observers say.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been relatively civil so far during their months-long contest. But tensions in the Democratic presidential campaign are poised to flare in Charleston, South Carolina, Sunday night over curbing gun violence.
With two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who barely qualified for inclusion, were set to take the debate stage just a few blocks from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine parishioners were killed during Bible study in a mass shooting over the summer.
