Evening Express

People in just about every state of the country have filed petitions on the White House website asking for their state to withdraw from the United States.

Some are upset over the outcome of the presidential election while others say taxes are too high or there's too much federal government.

Election night was not a happy one for roughly half the country and now some people are calling for drastic measures: they want their states to secede from the country!

Americans in 35 states have signed a petition on whitehouse.gov asking that their state be allowed to withdraw from the United States (peacefully of course) and start a new government.

If you're familiar with conservative commentator Ann Coulter then you know how abrasive she can be -- it's her schtick.

Well after Monday night's presidential debate she may have gone a little too far with an insult. Here's what she tweeted:

You may find yourself trying to avoid political conversations with co-workers and Facebook friends. But what do you do if your spouse is rooting for Mitt Romney and you support President Obama?

That's what's happening in one Tennessee home. Cafe Mom's political correspondent Lindsay Ferrier has the story.

Already tired of this election season’s spin, pundits and talking points? Let us offer some relief. HLN is going beyond the campaign speeches and getting to the issues that affect real people like you. Through our “Voter’s Next Door” series, we’re hearing from undecided voters in one of this year’s most hotly contested battleground states—Florida. From unemployment to health care, our diverse group of Americans has lived the issues the politicians are fighting about. Get to know the “Voters Next Door.”

David Shearer
Lives in Tallahassee, Fla., is a former teacher and a registered Republican who has not made up his mind yet. He wants to know which candidate can get people working again.

Already tired of this election season’s spin, pundits and talking points? Let us offer some relief. HLN is going beyond the campaign speeches and getting to the issues that affect real people like you. Through our “Voter’s Next Door” series, we’re hearing from undecided voters in one of this year’s most hotly contested battleground states—Florida. From unemployment to health care, our diverse group of Americans has lived the issues the politicians are fighting about. Get to know the “Voters Next Door.”

Stephanie and Andrew Hendricks
Working parents of four, one daughter in the Navy and another in college, recently moved from New York to Orlando

• Issue that gets her fired up: “My main concern has to do with our ability to pay for education. Education now is so expensive.”
• Her thoughts on the candidates: “What I want to hear from the candidates is what are you going to do to fix the issues, to improve the economy, the cost of education?”
• Her thoughts on the campaign: “I just feel there’s a lot of mudslinging making it difficult for the average voter to make a decision.”
• His thoughts on the candidates: “When we did elect this president he did say he would need two terms to get this country where we need it to be.”
• His thoughts on the campaign: “We are undecided of which way to go because we’re not getting the total information or understanding the total information...”

Already tired of this election season’s spin, pundits and talking points? Let us offer some relief. HLN is going beyond the campaign speeches and getting to the issues that affect real people like you. Through our “Voter’s Next Door” series, we’re hearing from undecided voters in one of this year’s most hotly contested battleground states—Florida. From unemployment to health care, our diverse group of Americans has lived the issues the politicians are fighting about. Get to know the “Voters Next Door.”

Judy Gross
Retired state employee, Tallahassee native, grandmother, self-described “news junky”

• How she stays informed: “I read the front section of the paper with the op-eds, and I walk on my treadmill for my exercise and sing at the top of my lungs when I’m doing it.”
• Issue that gets her fired up: “We have to rely on our health care system to keep us as healthy as we can be for as long as we can be.”
• How to solve the problem: “We need to make healthcare a priority in this country not wars, not tax breaks for people who really don’t need them to survive.”

If you didn't know the name "Julian Castro" before, then you probably know it by now! He's the mayor of San Antonio, Texas and on Tuesday he became the first Hispanic to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Some are already comparing him to President Barack Obama (who delivered the keynote at the DNC in 2004): Both were raised by single mothers and both went to Harvard Law School.