Tim Kaine, George Allen Throw Sharp Jabs at First Senate Debate
Tim Kaine and George Allen met today for the first debate in their race for an open Senate seat, which will help decide the Senate majority in 2013.
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Tim Kaine and George Allen met today for the first debate in their race for an open Senate seat, which will help decide the Senate majority in 2013.
Scott Brown says he has been stymied this year in his effort to build a record of bipartisan legislative successes — a problem Republicans blame on Democratic efforts to sink his 2012 re-election bid.
Earlier this year, lawmakers also passed a bill that scheduled two separate primaries: March for Senate and other local races, and June for House and presidential contests.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) said Democrats have been working to keep the number of riders to a minimum.
Barney Frank’s announcement that he would not run for re-election in 2012 opened the door for a bevy of ambitious candidates eyeing the state’s 4th district, a safe Democratic seat.
Public polls show Nelson remains one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election next year.
While the Land of Enchantment tilts Democratic, the 2012 Senate race could well go down to the wire. The third Senate race where Democrats should have an edge is Ohio, where Sen.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the top Democrat in the state, announced on Monday that he is backing state Speaker John Oceguera (D) in the 3rd. Titus is running against state Sen.
Roscoe Bartlett (R) has insisted repeatedly that he is running for re-election, members of both parties are treating Maryland’s 6th district as an open-seat race.
Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who is locked in a competitive re-election campaign against Rep. Brad Sherman (D).
Obama did have all Senate Republicans up to the White House for a cattle call earlier this year, and he engaged in extensive discussions with Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader
Barrow said he is definitely running for re-election in the 12th district and will move into it once the lines are finalized. Litigation on the new map is pending.
Hours after the House Agriculture Committee voted to subpoena former MF Global chief executive Jon Corzine, Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) scheduled a Tuesday vote that could allow
2008 Jackson attended a meeting about the same project at which his close family friend, Raghuveer Nayak, is said to have promised a Blagojevich representative that he would raise $1 million for his re-election
Obama did have all Senate Republicans up to the White House for a cattle call earlier this year, and he engaged in extensive discussions with Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader
Not to mention that the bulk of Obama’s economic prescriptions are mired at the Capitol — where the Republicans who control the House and wield ample power in the Senate are set on preventing the president
And so whether Obama is re-elected or replaced will go a long way to deciding the fate of a project such as Sterling Ranch, in which 3,000 acres of mountain-nuzzling Colorado prairie would be transformed
One of those surveys, by Quinnipiac University, pegged the president’s approval rating in the state at just 41 percent with only 43 percent saying he deserves to be re-elected.
the racially and ethnically diverse, and solidly Democratic, population of Northern Virginia — helped propel him past John McCain, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War and a pre-eminent hawk on the Senate
Gabrielle Giffords was considered a top choice to run for Senate. But when Republican Sen. Jon Kyl announced his retirement a few weeks later, Democrats avoided Senate talk.