Amid last night's Beltway bluster over which conservative Republican would win a Deep South Senate seat, the media missed some pretty interesting local election results—like the South Carolina town that rallied to back a gay police chief and punish the mayor who fired her two months ago.

Is it trying to get you to associate the Republican Party with SportsCenter? Hoping you'll fall for a lovable anti-Clinton mascot costume? Trying to court nut producers for donations? Who knows? The point is: Reince Priebus wanted it, and it's in HD, so watch the damn turd.

Beating Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia Republican primary yesterday was "the happiest moment, obviously, of my life," said Dave Brat, a married father of two.

Here is one solution to America's student-debt problem: Hire more recent college graduates as campaign pollsters. They can't do any worse than longtime Republican poll-whiz John McLaughlin.

According to a new poll, here are a list of qualities that would convince Americans not to vote for a candidate, from least to most offensive: used marijuana; is gay or lesbian; in their 70s; had an extramarital affair; has never held office; is an atheist.

Indian workers prepare sweets anticipating election victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party at its New Delhi headquarters on Thursday. Official results are expected on Friday, but exit polls by at least six TV stations show the BJP is likely to win enough seats to form a coalition government. Image via Manish Swarup/AP.

Asked Sunday if he thinks he's ready to be president, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) replies: "I do." Asked Sunday if he believes in human-caused climate change, Rubio replies: "I do not."

Articulating public policy on the campaign trail is hard, guys. Is Obamacare more like the Holocaust, or like the Nazis and the KKK put together? And if unions are like slavery, that has "no racial connotations," right? Don't worry, conservatives are gonna figure this all out soon.

Clay Aiken, the runner-up from season 2 of American Idol, holds a slim lead in his Democratic Congressional primary against former North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco this morning. Aiken is ahead by just 372 votes with all precincts already reporting, leaving the race too close to call.

Neel Kashkari is currently a Republican candidate for governor of California, endorsed by Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. In 2008, he was the Treasury Department official in charge of bailing out the banks, and we ran his high school yearbook page.

India's Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi displays the victory symbol to supporters after casting his vote in Ahmadabad, India, on Wednesday. Image via Ajit Solanki/AP.

Say you're an embattled conservative governor in Florida. Say you want to go out and glad-hand with voters who hate Obamacare as much as you do. What's the stupidest place to do that? How about a senior center in South Florida, where Barack Obama won in 2012 by half a million votes?

Mark Harris could win North Carolina's GOP Senate primary next Tuesday. If so, he may easily become the state's next U.S. senator. And he could do it all with sketchy "love offerings" from parishioners caught on tape passing the hat at the church where he's a pastor.

A large turnout for the Afghan presidential election has led officials to extend the voting period on Saturday by an hour. The turnout comes despite Taliban threats against all participants involved in the election and militants carrying out fatal attacks on polling centers in recent days.

Paris has elected its first-ever female mayor, the Spanish-born Socialist Anne Hidalgo, even as elsewhere in the country more right-wing candidates won their races. Hidalgo received 54.5 per cent of the vote.

At least seven people were injured in Bangkok this morning, including a local newspaper reporter and an American photojournalist, as demonstrators exchanged gunfire and threw rocks ahead of national elections tomorrow.

Elections in Honduras have just gone dark: the electoral count came to an abrupt stop about sixty percent of the way through, the candidates have disappeared from public view, and election officials have been totally silent. Elections observers, who the AP says initially called the election "clean," now have no comment.

The mayor of a mile-high town in Utah will keep his job for another two years after "forgetting" to inform residents that it was time to hold municipal elections.

When the BBC referred to Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev as the "Pre-Determined President," they weren't kidding around.

With 99% of precincts reporting, Tish James has been declared the winner of the Public Advocate runoff election in New York City. James—who has no Republican opponent—is expected to be the first African American woman to hold a citywide post.