Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero gets the Democratic.Bernero gained 59 percent of the votes over Dillon's 41 percent.

Businessman Rick Snyder had 37 percent of the vote to defeat four opponents to capture the Republican nomination for Michigan governor.

Seven-term Michigan Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick lost a re-election bid in Tuesday's Democratic primary to state senator Hansen Clarke.

Political scapegoats are not new in American politics.

Van Jones was the first in this administration to be scapegoat of the month,next was Shirley Sherrod.

Now the congress has got into the act

with representatives Rangel and Waters.

Congressman Charles Rangel the “Lion of Lenox Avenue Roars" site discrimination in his ethics case.

Rep.Maxine Waters will go to trial rather than settling potential ethics charges.

"A Turning Point For Democrats?

It’s too early to say for sure, but it’s possible that the Republican wave has subsided".Charlie Cook

Washington shifts that state’s Senate race from Toss-Up to Leans Democratic. Pennsylvania shifted that state’s Senate race from Leans Republican to Toss-Up status.Rasmussen

The Republicans Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp of Chattanooga , Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam and the Democrat Mike McWherter, a Jackson businessman from Belmont University.

We are covering the Blagojevich trial in Chicago,the Arizona immigration injunction,Gov. David Paterson charges dropped,Granite State Poll,Electronic Communication Transactional Records ,civil liberties Electronic and the Communications Privacy Act.

Target Corporation feels backlash for donation Tea Party supported candidate Tom Emmer in Minnesota.

Republican Congresswoman Mary Fallin defeated three challengers and won her party's nomination in the Oklahoma governor's race.

Lt. Gov. Jari Askins defeated Attorney General Drew Edmondson for the Democratic nomination for governor.

"The parallels are very strong,this is the largest unauthorized disclosure since the Pentagon Papers. In actual scale, it is much larger, and thanks to the Internet, it has moved [around the world] much faster." Daniel Ellsberg

This Week in Politics is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends.

Jerry Pippin remembers, the man who lived history, from the depression years into World War II, the cold war, and an even colder reception in Washington DC when it became apparent he was a reporter who could not be scared off a story. President Richard Nixon put him on his enemies list but never gave up on the idea of buying him off and becoming ally. It never happened. Daniel Schorr died Friday morning in a DC area hospital after a short illness.

Mark Dayton would beat Republican Tom Emmer 40 to 36 percent, with the Independence Party candidate Tom Horner 10 percent.

Margaret Anderson-Kelliher 40 percent to Emmer's 35, with Horner at 11 percent and Matt Entenza leads Emmer 37 to 36 percent, with Horner at 12 percent.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, suggestion at a veterans forum Don't tax veteran retirement benefits.