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When the 112th Congress is sworn in next week, the GOP will hold 47 seats in the Senate, Democrats will hold 51, and there will be two Independents who caucus with Democrats.
Nelson leads LeMieux 47 percent to 36 percent in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to a mid-December survey of 1,034 Florida voters taken by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.
Among the more likely candidates, Nelson leads Mack 44 percent to 36 percent, LeMieux 47 to 36 percent, Haridopolos 44 percent to 32 percent and Hasner 46 percent to 30 percent.
Mitt Romney (R) 47 to 40. The message is that the GOP needs to nominate someone who can appeal to independent voters in order to defeat Obama, and not a right-wing ideologue.
Mike Huckabee; led 47 percent to 42 percent against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and had an 8-point lead over recently elected conservative favorite Sen.
The Republican Conference will grow from 42 to 47 members in January.
Updated: 11:47 p.m. The House and Senate may finally be on course to leave town for the holidays, but work remains on several outstanding measures, and Members could be back next week.
George LeMieux 47 to 36 percent, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos 44 percent to 32 percent, and state Rep. Adam Hasner 46 percent to 30 percent.
Republicans, as many conservative activist groups and commentators are strongly urging the Senate minority to push consideration of the treaty to next year, when the GOP’s ranks will grow from 42 to 47
Russ Feingold, first elected in 1992, lost to first-time Republican candidate Ron Johnson, 52 percent to 47 percent, this fall.
Weeks later, Poplawski, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and other guns, killed three police officers leading to a four-hour standoff with a SWAT team.
pushing for several months for the START debate to be delayed until 2011, a desire that gained steam after the Nov. 2 elections, when the GOP picked up six seats and expanded its Conference from 41 to 47
Democrats have been meeting this week to discuss what, if anything, they want to do when the next Congress begins and they are faced with an emboldened 47-member GOP minority and a weakened
“I think it took my dad by surprise when his 47-year-old called to move back in.”
Additionally, conservative interest groups and commentators have urged GOP Senators to delay consideration of START until next year, when the Republican Conference will grow from 42 to 47 Members
They took place while he drifted in a blow-up raft, lost at sea without provisions for 47 days.
Politically, the idea of punting START to next year, when a new Congress with a strengthened GOP minority of 47 Members will take office, has gained traction with Republican activists and conservative
McCaskill defeated him 50 percent to 47 percent in 2006.
The notion of pushing START to 2011 — when a Senate that includes a Republican minority of 47 Members can debate it — has gained traction among GOP activists and in the conservative