Follow the South Bend Voice for updates on local races and key national races. Refresh your browser every few minutes as we will update this page with new vote totals. Federal House District 2 Jackie Walorski (R-incumbent) – 58% Joe Bock (D) – 39% Jeff Peterman (L) – 3% Reporting: 84% State Indiana Secretary of…
Republicans are heavily favored to make strong gains in the US Senate today with a better than even probability of flipping control of the body, which has been in Democratic hands since January 2007. While partisans may interpret this as a resounding endorsement of their policies on a national level, a closer look at the…
Credit: Flickr This election season, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is coming out ahead—as the number one dark money spender of 2014, watchdog Public Citizen revealed in a report released Wednesday. “In a record year for dark money expenditures, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is leading the way,” reads the report, entitled The Dark Side…
The United States Senate voted down a constitutional amendment Thursday that would reverse the Supreme Courts’ Citizens United decision, which opened unlimited corporate and union cash into federal elections (the Court later ruled that state and local elections were also covered). It would also partially reverse the 1970s era Buckley v. Valeo, which held that…
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted on Thursday to spying on members of Congress and their staff. An internal report from the CIA Inspector General’s Office concluded “that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) and the CIA in 2009,” a CIA spokesman…
A bill that just passed Congress will once again make it legal for US cellphone owners to unlock their phones. The vote was 295 to 114 in the House of Representatives. It had already passed the Senate. The ban has been in place since 2013 after vigorous lobbying from wireless carriers. President Obama says that…
