Richard Burr

White voters who might sour on the president are more likely to turn out than the young and black voters who made up his margin of victory in 2008.

The Senate this morning is poised to vote on a historic bill empowering the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the tobacco industry for the first time. The proposal, approved by the House in April, is expected to pass, but not without opposition from Southern lawmakers hoping to protect their famously regional industry. And this [...]