Democrats to Launch PR Blitz on Iraq Vote
and incumbents facing difficult 2008 re-election races to Bush in the public’s mind, Democratic leadership aides said Monday.
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and incumbents facing difficult 2008 re-election races to Bush in the public’s mind, Democratic leadership aides said Monday.
Richard Baker (R) is celebrating Mardi Gras in Washington, D.C., to raise money, which could be used for a Senate bid. Baker is considering challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) in 2008.
But she and Michael Cuzzi, who led Allen’s re-election effort, have both decamped to the presidential effort of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Wilson is seen as a possible Senate candidate if Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) retires next year.
Democratic Senators and aides said last week Lieberman’s political posture hasn’t changed much since winning re-election as an Independent Democrat.
Smith previously served as the traveling spokeswoman for Webb for Senate.
Prior to going to work for the NRSC, Nick served as spokesman for Dole’s Senate office and deputy campaign manager for her 2002 Senate race.
Coleman will face a challenge from comedian and radio personality Al Franken (D), who reportedly is getting into the Senate race. The campaign finance reports for GOP Sens.
Marty Meehan (D) — blocked from running for the Senate in light of Kerry’s announcement and November’s re-election of veteran Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) — might leave Congress for the private sector.
The Senate earlier this month passed a measure that included such a requirement, and Democratic Reps.
McCain has long had a prickly relationship with Republican House Members over the course of his two decades in the Senate.
The Senate Republican Conference has recently finalized its staff additions. Ryan Loskarn, 29, will be the communications director for the Conference.
Some GOP Senators facing potentially tough re-election bids — such as Sens.
Van Dongen also said he was involved in building support for Giuliani’s abbreviated 2000 Senate bid, which Giuliani ended after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in April of that year.
break with his party at the first sign of pressure from the White House, in order to avoid being painted as too liberal during his upcoming re-election fight.
Comedian Al Franken (D), who is weighing a 2008 Senate bid, is hanging up his microphone.
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), under pressure from Senate Republican leaders to decide whether he’ll run for re-election in 2008, is stepping up his fundraising activity and said Friday through a spokeswoman
McConnell and Ensign, charged with re-electing GOP Senators as well as winning back the majority this cycle, have been meeting over the past several weeks with GOP Senators facing re-election, according
“These guys are trying to throw all these things out there and hoping something will stick,” noted one knowledgeable Senate Democratic aide.
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez (D), who has talked openly of running for Senate in 2008 if veteran Sen.