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Republicans on Tuesday appeared to take control of the Alabama Legislature, with top Republicans claiming to have close to 60 seats in the 105-member House of Representatives and about 22 seats in the 35-member Senate. ... Auburn University at Montgomery political scientist Brad Moody said Alabama was late in joining other Southeastern states in having at least one chamber of the Legislature controlled by Republicans. "It's a big deal. The Alabama Legislature just has been one of the last to switch from being Democratic controlled to Republican controlled," Moody said.

Rick Barber is in a run-off July 13th for the 2nd Congressional District of Alabama. Talk about gutsy. Check out his ads at the link below. He made Keith Oblbermann so mad that he said on national TV, about Rick Barber's ads: "You're a #@%#$^&@ liar and I hope they throw your sorry a** in jail." Check out Rick's one-minute ads. We need this ex-Marine in Washington. http://www.google.com/#q=Rick+Barber+for+Congress&hl=en&prmd=vo&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=3gUwTJeSIMS

Discuss the primary results in Alabama, Mississippi and New Mexico. Link for results: Politico

Alabama’s agriculture commissioner overwhelmed a congressman trying to become the first black to win Alabama’s Democratic nomination for governor, while four candidates ran a close race for the Republican nomination. With 58 percent of the precincts reporting, Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks won with 65 prcent to U.S. Rep. Artur Davis’s 35 percent. In the crowded Republican field, former two-year college chancellor Bradley Byrne, Greenville developer Tim James and Tuscaloosa physician Robert Bentley are tied at 26 percent each. Former Chief Justice Roy Moore is polling 20 percent. The top two in the GOP fight will advance to a runoff July...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A congressman seeking to become Alabama's first black governor lost Tuesday to a white Democratic primary opponent who had garnered support from the state's four major black political groups. Primaries were also held in Mississippi and New Mexico, where Susana Martinez, a prosecutor from southern New Mexico, won the GOP nomination for governor and will face Democrat Diane Denish in a general election race deciding who becomes New Mexico's first woman governor.

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Mo Brooks has won the Republican nomination for 5th Congressional District without a runoff. Brooks said incumbent Parker Griffith called him and conceded just a few minutes ago. Brooks won 51 percent of the vote (35,712) to Griffith's 33 percent (23,494). Les Phillip won 16 percent (11,066).

Parker Griffith, considered a blue dog, switched to the Republican party on December 22, tonight was the GOP Primary in Alabama, Griffith comes up short to Mo Brooks....(Results)

I just voted in my local GOP primary. I voted against my Senator and my Representative (Richard Shelby and Spenser Bachus). Both are reasonably solid Conservatives, and both will win their primaries easily.I voted against them to encourage others to run against them in the future. By my calculation, every vote against an encumbent is a vote to encourage potential candidates in the future.Thoughts?

Amid a national debate over Arizona's tough new immigration law, Republican Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James (and son of previous Gov. Fob James) vows in a new campaign ad that if he's elected, he'll give the state driver's license exam only in English, as a cost-saving measure. "This is Alabama; we speak English," he says in the ad. "If you want to live here, learn it."

With both parties' primaries just two months away, Alabama's gubernatorial race is wide open. The first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of likely voters in the state finds former State Senator Bradley Byrne, a Republican, as the only candidate to capture 50% of the vote, and that's in a match-up with Democratic Congressman Artur Davis who earns 33% support. Byrne leads the other Democrat in the race, State Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, by a 43% to 33% margin. Sparks and Davis are battling for the Democratic nomination. Davis, who is seeking to be the first African-American governor of the state,...

JACKSONVILLE, AL -Following a hard fought election and a critical race for both parties, Republican K.L. Brown has overwhelmingly won the House District 40 Special Election, with unofficial results showing Brown with 55% and Democrat Rickey Whaley with 41% of the vote. Independent candidate Carol Hagan received 2.5% of the vote. Brown's decisive victory moves the Alabama Republican Party within 8 seats of a majority in the Alabama House of Representatives as Brown becomes the 45th Republican. Following announcement of the election results, Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn), Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, issued the following statement: "Today's historic victory...

UPDATE, 6:15 P.M.: An unbylined 11:57 a.m. AP report (i.e., 54 minutes after the time stamp of the original post at BizzyBlog) contains two paragraphs about Delahunt's involvement. Based on a search on Delahunt's last name at about 6:15 p.m., this version of AP's report is either still not at its main site, or has not been indexed by its search engine. Democratic Congressman Bill Delahunt's far from minor role in the 1986 release of Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama in Hunstville biology professor implicated in the murder of three colleagues on Friday, has garnered significant press attention in...

Rep. Parker Griffith, the Alabama Republican who recently crossed over from the Democratic Party, is facing a mini-revolt from some home-state GOP officials who question his loyalty to his newly adopted party. The local Republican operations for two counties inside Griffith's 5th District passed a set of resolutions in the past week urging Republicans to elect anyone but Griffith in the state's June primary.

ALABAMA ELECTION CENTRAL If we are going to make a difference in the upcoming election, we need to KNOW the candidates. Please post the names of ALL your Congressional candidates on this thread along with any and all information available. We need names, positions, platforms, news articles, statements, pictures. We need to separate the RINOS from the Conservatives, and most of all, we need to get the liberals of either party OUT!We can do this if you help. I have started this thread. All you have to do is contribute a little time and a little research. Help us...

ANDALUSIA, Ala. — Among the men who gather every morning at 6 o’clock at the Church’s Chicken here on Three Notch Street, there is general agreement that the Obama administration is doing a very bad job of running the country. And the stakes are as high, as one coffee drinker put it, as the survival of the country’s culture, economy and way of life. Yet this group is represented in the House by a Democrat, Bobby Bright. And they are actually fond of him. For now. “I like Bobby,” said Glenn Cook, 72, a retired electrical engineer. “I think he’s...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Former Republican presidential candidate endorses Montgomery's gubernatorial candidate. WSFA 12 News confirmed overnight that Mitt Romney will endorse state treasurer Kate Ivey in her Republican race for governor. Romney cited Ivey's conservative background as the main reason for his support. Ivey served as Alabama chair-person of Romney's 2008 presidential campaign.