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Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. In D.C., Hauser has served as communications director for Sen.
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Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. In D.C., Hauser has served as communications director for Sen.
With an increasingly gloves-off, partisan mentality permeating the Senate, an amendment targeting a 2005 earmark for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could pose political problems for Democrats
Sources said Reid may try to convince Democratic Conference members to allow Kerrey to re-enter the Senate with his seniority intact if he wins.
Allen Boyd (D) in 2010 by a comfortable 13 points, but in his first re-election, he faces a more African-American and Democratic electorate.
It’s anything but surprising, therefore, that it has re-emerged now.
Bush’s 2004 re-election, said the Republican nominee could be at a severe disadvantage in identifying and turning out voters against Obama, whose 2008 campaign set a new standard for organizational muscle
He’s not as flush with money as other New Jersey politicians because of his failed 2008 Senate run, but this is a safe seat made safer, and no primary challenges are on the horizon.
Bill Cassidy (R), who has a clear path to re-election, hired a former strategist to Gov.
There’s a personally popular and yet deeply divisive Democratic president running for re-election who is triangulating against Congress.
John Sanchez — who just dropped out of the Senate race — also chose to sit it out.
It is a little more than eight months until Election Day, but even now two Republican-held Senate seats look increasingly like the keys to whether Democrats can hold their narrow majority in November.
All three Members are Maryland Democrats and represent numerous federal workers, and Cardin is up for re-election in 2012.
Birch Bayh (Ind.), George McGovern (S.D.) and Gaylord Nelson (Wis.), each of whom was first elected in 1962 during the Kennedy administration — lost re-election in 1980, when the Senate Democrats’ 12-seat
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is retiring, opening the Whip slot beginning in the 113th Congress.
Instead, the exercise would merely open vulnerable Senate Democrats up to countless budget amendment votes that could possibly be used against them in their re-election campaigns.
If Reid kills the clean bill in the Senate, the tables could turn.
“They will do anything necessary to save their districts and their lines in the Senate,” one upstate New York Republican strategist said.
Barbara Mikulski, with combined service in the House and Senate, will pass Rogers next month.)
. — Virginia Democrats fired up the party’s base Saturday night at their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, a formal kickoff to the election year in this presidential and Senate race epicenter.
He is now expected to comfortably win re-election.