District of Columbia Residents Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election
A District of Columbia resident cast his vote at a polling location on election day in Washington on November 4, 2008. The country cast their votes today to elect the forty-fourth President of the United States. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
UPI Related News
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday has raised the hopes of activists hoping to make the District of Columbia a state.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- President George Bush has made federal emergency aid available to the District of Columbia to help defray costs of next week's U.S. presidential inauguration.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama had 302 electoral votes to Republican rival John McCain's 139 with 39 states and the District of Columbia reporting.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An effort in the U.S. House of Representatives to curtail District of Columbia officials' ability to regulate guns in the city goes too far, city leaders say.
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17 (UPI) -- The District of Columbia paid the most for Medicaid expenditures in 2005 at $7,941 per enrollee, followed by New York at $7,733, foundation officials said.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- Civil libertarians and political opponents say Washington's nearly 4,800 city-owned surveillance cameras are an unwarranted intrusion of privacy.
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- The Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington says it is lowering its prices for senior citizens and children under the age of 12.
WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- The District of Columbia appellate court Thursday yanked the law license of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain both handily won their parties' respective primaries in the District of Columbia Tuesday, it was reported.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Attorneys for a D.C. resident filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of an outright ban on handguns in Washington.
