Mary Landrieu’s Loss and the End of Ticket Splitting
Landrieu’s defeat in the Dec. 6 runoff certainly was no surprise.
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Landrieu’s defeat in the Dec. 6 runoff certainly was no surprise.
Al Franken told Minnesota Public Radio in explaining how he and the state’s other Democratic senator, Amy Klobuchar, would oppose confirmation at the urging of the 1 in 6 Minnesotans who trace their heritage
(Hope is still alive for GOP challengers to five Democratic incumbents in races that remain too close to call , and a pair of seats won’t be filled until the Dec. 6 Louisiana runoff.)
Landrieu has already made it quite clear that she isn’t going to go quietly in her bid to win a fourth term in next month’s Dec. 6 runoff. Her effort to brand Republican Rep.
Republicans (Still) Poised to Pick Up 6 to 8 Senate Seats -
Democrats lost 6 Senate seats in 2010 and seem likely to lose from 5 to as many as 10 seats next week.
Republicans need a 6-seat gain to take over the Senate next year.
Next year, he’ll be the third-ranking Democrat on Banking and will advance to No. 6 in party seniority on Finance.
An automated Rasmussen Reports poll , conducted March 5-6, showed Udall with a 42 percent to 41 percent advantage over the congressman.
The CQ Roll Call vote studies for 2013 found that Roberts voted against the president’s wishes 66 percent of the time, 6 points higher than the Senate GOP average.
The statewide broadcast and cable ad cost approximately $240,000 through Feb. 6 and included footage also seen in the b-roll videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
It shows that both broke with their party colleagues on 9 percent of the mostly party-line votes of 2013 – a year in which the average Democratic senator’s score on that test was 6 percent.
Republicans will face off in North Carolina on May 6 and in Nebraska on May 13, after Cornyn’s race in Texas and before McConnell in Kentucky.
6. Why the exception for Supreme Court nominees?
The president’s job approval in polling conducted by Quinnipiac University fell from 45 percent in late September to just 39 percent in its Nov. 6-11 survey.
He found the Democrat nominee, Corey Booker, leading his client by only 6 points, 48 percent to 42 percent. That apparently was all that National Review Online writer Alec Torres needed.
After the overwhelming response to “6 Things Losing Candidates Say” and its successor, “4 More Things Losing Candidates Say (Readers’ Edition),” I decided to try to turn it around and point out some common
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The response to “6 Things Losing Candidates Say” has been unexpectedly overwhelming.
But he was re-elected in 1990 by just 4 points, and he won his last race, in 2008, by only 6 points.