Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his re-election into legislative success in an upcoming showdown with congressional Republicans over taxes, deficits and the impending "fiscal cliff

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Staff at the Natrona County Clerk’s Office spent most of Wednesday wrapping up work related to Tuesday night’s general election.

Natrona County clerk Renea Vitto says turnout was strong across Natrona County

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking, jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else. It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has claimed a second term from an incredibly divided electorate in trying economic times. He is bracing for daunting challenges and progress that comes only in fits and starts

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In one of the few contested races for state senate in Wyoming, Casper Republican Jim Anderson defeated Democratic challenger Kim Holloway on Tuesday Night in State Senate District 28.

Anderson says he’s proud of the race both candidates ran and the standards he believes both candidates set

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On Tuesday night, incumbent Republican John Barrasso defeated Democratic challenger Tim Chesnut for another term in the U.S. Senate.

Barrasso says he’s ready to get back to work in Washington, D

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Incumbent Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis defeated multiple challengers in her race for Wyoming’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night. Among others, Lummis defeated Democratic challenger Chris Henrichsen of Casper and Libertarian challenger Richard P

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Several new candidates won seats on the city council

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BELMONT, Mass. (AP) — Mitt Romney has cast his ballot in the presidential election.

After all the flights, all the speeches, the debates, hand-shakes, nods, gestures and smiles, it was time for him to vote and then hold curtain-closing campaign rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania

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The number of registered voters on the eve of the state’s general election is just under 239,000. Secretary of State Max Maxfield says that's about 55 percent of the voting age population in Wyoming and represents an increase of over 20,000 since the primaries in August

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