Frist Spreads His Money Widely
So, unlike the Democratic presidential candidates in the ’04 cycle, who spent 2001-2002 pouring six-figure checks into key committees, any Congressional contenders for the White House in 2008 will be limited
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So, unlike the Democratic presidential candidates in the ’04 cycle, who spent 2001-2002 pouring six-figure checks into key committees, any Congressional contenders for the White House in 2008 will be limited
Not only did Democrats pick up House seats in 1998, but in 2002 — Bush’s first midterm election — Republicans also won back control of the Senate and added six House seats, an unprecedented gain
Jean Carnahan drew in 2002 and her late husband attracted in 2000.
Many House Democrats say that the time to retire was after 2002, given that Republicans won back control of all three chambers and the party lost seats for the first time since 1994.
Denton acknowledged that Gibbons — who won 74 percent of the vote in 2002 and is expected to cruise to a re-election victory this fall — is not engaged in a hotly contested race this cycle, but said
Howell, who often teams with Bolger, is seeking to build on an impressive slate of wins in 2002 including Sens. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) and Norm Coleman (Minn.).
At 85, colleagues say Berns, who received a lifetime achievement award from the American Political Science Association in 2002, shows no sign of slowing down.
Settlement talks in 2002 collapsed, and the two sides continued to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their legal teams, shelling out approximately $900,000 overall, according to the latest estimates
four-week trial, government prosecutors asserted the three suspects, part of a six-member crime ring, were involved in more than 60 burglaries in the Capitol Hill and Adams Morgan neighborhoods from July 2002
Matheson and Swallow are in a furious rematch of their 2002 contest, which Matheson won by just 1,600 votes.
Before joining Blumenauer’s office he worked at the fundraising firm Fraioli and Associates for the 2002 midterm elections.
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), would be champing at the bit to get their first extended chance at leading the chamber, other than the 18 months they held power in 2001 and 2002 — almost
The ad, according to knowledgeable sources, attacks Thune for his decision to become a lobbyist following his 2002 loss to Sen. Tim Johnson (D).
Piek moved to the Washington, D.C., area when she began working for Fitzgerald in August 2002. She said she “fell in love with Alexandria, Virginia.”
Thune declined to contest the 2002 results even though he lost to Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) by a mere 524 votes, leading both his camp and Daschle’s to lawyer up early this year.
In 2002, Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) introduced H.R. 604, which asked the United States to create a strategy in response to the coffee crisis affecting 25 million people worldwide.
The GOP effort worked well in the 2002 Congressional elections, when Republicans defied history to pick up both House and Senate seats in a new president’s first off-year election.
Tenenbaum regularly touts her conservative credentials, and she points out that in her 2002 re-election race she led all candidates — Democrats and Republicans — in total votes received.
Sykes received 7 percent of the vote in the far less competitive 2002 Senate race, and early polls this time showed him getting at least 4 percent.
If Congress had acted with dispatch and passed HAVA in 2001 or early 2002 instead of late 2002, there might have been time to anticipate new problems, train polling workers and educate voters.