More than 82% of Los Angeles County voters -- who endured long lines, scattered problems at some polls and even light morning rain -- cast ballots in Tuesday's historic election, shattering records dating back decades, election officials said.

Three things every voter should know about John McCain.

The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.

Lansing, MI -- Dianne Byrum has heard the stories about countless individuals in Michigan who are in pain. Byrum has listened to “dozens upon dozens” of terminally ill cancer patients, others dying of AIDS and others in severe pain from multiple sclerosis and glaucoma.