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Five hours after polls closed in New Hampshire, former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte was clinging to a 1-point lead over surging local tea party favorite Ovide Lamontagne early Wednesday morning
With all precincts accounted for at about 1:40 p.m. — nearly 18 hours after polls closed — the state reported that Ayotte earned 53,044 votes to Lamontagne’s 51,377.
A lead that was less than 1 percent after midnight has now doubled. And it appears that just one major population center, the Dover area, has yet to be recorded.
Owens has more than $1 million in the bank for the fall campaign, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved more than $900,000 in airtime in media markets that cover the 23rd
John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah) and George LeMieux (Fla.) at 1:30 p.m.
Although Davis had less than $500,000 on hand as of mid-July, the Congressman’s campaign said it expects to spend $850,000 to $1 million on the race over the next seven weeks.
The switch will cause a minor headache for vendors next month: Interim CAO Dan Strodel recently wrote to vendors warning them that no purchase orders or payments will be processed Oct. 1-12.
Recipes for the drink always include Pimm’s No. 1, a gin-based spirit with an aromatic and slightly mysterious bitter, herbal scent. But mixologists diverge on the ingredients after that.
[IMGCAP(1)]Purist conservative challengers in GOP primaries start out as asterisks in early polls, but in the final week or two, they surge to victory, as national tea party groups pump money and
[IMGCAP(1)]Or, as one GOP insider put it Wednesday, “we’re going to hell in a tea caddy.”
The purpose of the disbursement is listed as a “staffing expense” and was made July 1, according to the report.
[IMGCAP(1)]The morning of a speech, the Massachusetts Democrat would draw his staff together, and we would prepare in his office as if for a grueling oral exam.
[IMGCAP(1)]”We respect the choice of the primary voters,” Cornyn told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also announced his support, as did Sen.
Artur Davis, whose gubernatorial bid ended when he was defeated in the June 1 Democratic primary, said, “Democratic candidates are very worried” that efforts to localize races will not work.
[IMGCAP(1)]The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched its first TV ad of the cycle in Kentucky on Tuesday to help Rand Paul, who ousted establishment favorite Trey Grayson in the primary
[IMGCAP(1)]If DeMint’s candidates succeed, he’s likely to have more sway with those new colleagues than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Cornyn and other leaders because he was willing
[IMGCAP(1)]Davis said some elected officials are afraid to deviate from their base for fear it may come back to haunt them in their next primary election, which impedes Congress’ ability to get things
[IMGCAP(1)]Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) arrives at the Capitol on Tuesday to resume work after the August recess.
changed the fiscal year to allow three additional months to get appropriations bills cleared — all of the appropriations bills funding the various departments have been passed only four times by Oct. 1.
Oil and gas exploration and development companies favored Republican candidates by a 3-to-1 margin, while oilfield service companies are giving to the GOP by an almost 8-to-1 margin.