Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary  —  Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary tonight.  (AP Photo/Rob Carr)  —  Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican …

Paladino wins GOP nomination for NY governor  —  NEW YORK — Political novice and tea party ally Carl Paladino has beaten the Republican designee in the race for the party's nomination for New York governor.  —  Paladino rode a wave of voter anger on his way to defeating former Congressman Rick Lazio.

Fox News Polls Track Midterm Election Races in 5 Key States  —  Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio has jumped to a 16-point lead over independent Charlie Crist, according to the latest Fox News poll, as Republicans make gains across the country on dissatisfaction with President Obama's agenda.

How Republicans Party  —  The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend - a decision the organization is likely regretting after several controversial pictures from one of the meeting's sponsored events began surfacing on the internet.

Tea Party Float Depicts Obama Whipping A White ‘Future Tax Payer’ Pulling A Wagon  —  At the annual Sportsman's Day parade last weekend in Naches, WA (a small town southeast of Seattle), a tea party group called “Remember Us We The People” — which is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots …

Dodd: Congress Could Defund Consumer Bureau Over Warren Interim Appointment  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Outgoing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) warned Tuesday that an interim appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “jeopardizes the existence” of the nascent agency.

Koran burner Derek Fenton fired from his job at NJ Transit  —  A radical who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero was fired from his job at NJ Transit, sources and authorities confirmed.  —  Derek Fenton, an 11-year employee at NJ Transit, was fired Monday …

Speaker Pelosi ‘Absolutely’ Confident Dems Will Retain House Majority  —  ABC News' Dean Norland & John R. Parkinson report:  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer spoke with reporters late Tuesday evening as they headed into the Democrat caucus to discuss the party's plan to move America forward.

Democrats tout “major” announcement Wednesday  —  DNC Chairman Tim Kaine plans to make a ‘major annoucement’ on Wednesday.  —  Washington (CNN) - Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine plans to make what's being billed as a major announcement Wednesday about the future of the party …

‘2010 is gone for Democrats’  —  “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama.  “It is gone.  He must now concentrate on saving 2012.  But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.”

Primaries 2010: Results Outside Delaware: MTV's “Real World” to Palin's MD Failure  —  ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports:  —  Christine O'Donnell's remarkable victory in the Republican Senate primary in Delaware will lead headlines after Tuesday's primaries.  But there are other races worth paying attention to: