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8th district race would be a photo finish or even that Hayes would be in serious trouble, the Congressman’s campaign spent $2.4 million during the election cycle, suggesting he didn’t merely coast to re-election
Gordon Smith’s (R) re-election, switching instead to her colleague and fellow Democrat, state House Speaker Jeff Merkley.
But after winning a special election in January 1988 for the 5th district House seat, Clement went on to be re-elected seven more times to Congress.
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Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) got more complicated late last month when state Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer (D) joined the race.
In hiring Hishta, SRCP could be positioning itself to have a hand in the 2008 Virginia Senate race, which could be one of the cycle’s most high-profile contests.
Democrats said they equally were bewildered over why the Bush administration — after months of defending Gonzales’ handling of the Justice Department — would want to re-engage in a battle over the
“We gave it back the day the story broke,” Pryor, who is up for re-election in 2008, said Tuesday.
Former state Senate President Ken Bennett (R), who had been considered a potential frontrunner in the race to replace retiring Rep.
A television ad that criticizes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R) ties to a lobbyist who previously served as his chief of staff was expected to finally air during the NFL’s Monday Night Football
Bob Schaffer (R), running for Senate against Rep. Mark Udall (D), has released a poll that shows him within striking distance of his Democratic opposition.
Wayne Allard (R) won re-election against a challenge from Democrat Tom Strickland in November 2002,” the polling memo said.
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Kerrey said prior to Hagel’s retirement announcement that he would not run next year if the Senator ran for re- election.
Meanwhile, adding fuel to the fires of speculation about the future of Donald Payne’s House seat is the fact that earlier this spring Booker publicly declined to commit to supporting the Congressman for re-election
Steve Kagen (D), who has a tough re-election battle ahead of him in the Republican-leaning 8th district, the Badger State has one of the most entrenched Congressional delegations in the nation.
While Kennedy initially appeared to turn down both the switch and the Senate contest, his subsequent announcement that he was changing parties and running for re-election as a Republican this year
He added that a key opportunity to do that will be over the next two weeks when the Senate debates the success of the troop surge in Iraq.
And while then-President Bill Clinton was running for re-election and was in much better shape politically by 1996 than President Bush is today, Kerrey still had a tough job on his hands.
The median 2006 re-election percentage for this year’s caucus is 68 percent.