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Indiana Republican Congressman Steve Buyer has decided he won’t seek re-election this year and will leave Congress after 18 years.

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak says he won’t seek the Democratic nomination for Michigan governor this year and instead will run for re-election.
 

CHICAGO More papers than ever are declining to endorse political candidates for election — and now at least one major candidate says he won’t work to win endorsements from papers that do.

Beau Biden announced Monday that he will not seek election to the U.S. Senate seat long held by his father, Vice President Joe Biden, putting another Democratic-held Senate seat in jeopardy and dealing another blow to President Barack Obama’s flailing party.
 

Arkansas Democratic Rep. Marion Berry plans to announce Monday that he won’t seek re-election this fall, people who have spoken to Berry told The Associated Press.
 

One year into his presidency, Barack Obama has come to a defining moment. He needs to reset, and Wednesday’s state of the union address is the place to begin.
Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts was an astonishing rebuke. It is difficult, stil…

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he’s confident Iraqis are working toward a solution to difficult pre-election dispute.

Antipathy toward federal government activism and opposition to the Democrats’ health-care proposals drove the upset election of Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown, according to a new post-election survey of Massachusetts voters.

Terrorism is creeping back to the forefront of the American mindset, creating an election-year issue for emboldened Republicans and forcing President Barack Obama to reassert himself after a wobbly period of homeland protection.
 

Dana Milbank is right.
For Democrats, the only good thing to come from Tuesday’s loss of the Senate election in Massachusetts is this: It could wipe the grin off Robert Gibbs’s face.
I think the White House spokesman is a small but not negl…