NEBRASKA: AG Follows Others Out of the 2006 Senate Race
Tom Osborne (R) on the 2006 Senate sidelines.
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Tom Osborne (R) on the 2006 Senate sidelines.
Mark Udall’s decision to announce his candidacy for Senate in 2008 has jump-started a race more than three years off and increased the pressure on Sen.
A three-year Senate campaign is unusual enough, but a three-year House campaign may be taken as downright unseemly.
While three Gopher State House Members initially pondered a 2006 Senate bid in the wake of Sen. Mark Dayton’s (D) decision not to seek re-election, only Rep. Mark Kennedy (R) will run. Rep.
Conrad Burns’ (R) 2006 re-election bid makes a good test case.
Tyson, using the Maptitude software Republicans purchased for redistricting, drew the GOP version of the state House and Senate maps.
Even more telling, the Republicans haven’t won a Senate contest in the state since 1972, when liberal Republican Clifford Case coasted to re-election.
Before joining Northup’s staff, Barker worked on President Bush’s re-election campaign and as an assistant to election-day legal teams.
Mark Udall (D-Colo.) announced late this afternoon that he would forgo the 2006 governor’s race in the Centennial State and seek re-election instead — and then run for Senate in 2008.
Abortion-rights advocates have expressed their displeasure at the appearance that Senate Democrats are lining up behind Casey, who was on Capitol Hill in February meeting with Senate Minority Leader Harry
The new recruits join Anita Dunn, who handled Bayh’s advertising in his easy 2004 re-election campaign.
(R-N.C.) plans to re-introduce a measure that would permit churches to endorse political candidates.
Attempting to counter the conventional wisdom that she has little chance in the open-seat Senate race, state Sen.
campaign arm depends on a number of factors, including the status of his chairmanship of the Government Reform Committee, the GOP’s performance in the 2006 elections and the possibility that a Virginia Senate
Then, when he won re-election, he could have claimed a mandate to launch the “ownership society.” Private savings accounts certainly were a part of his platform, but not a central item.
For instance, House Administration Chairman Bob Ney (R-Ohio) has not meet with Hastings or Mollohan to discuss his own dealings with Abramoff, an issue first raised publicly at a Senate Indian Affairs
“I haven’t ruled out running for governor, Senate or re-election,” the paper quoted him as saying. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) was just re-elected overwhelmingly last year.
DeLay said he expects to be able to attend the Senate lunches every week, and that each week Santorum or some other Senate leadership member would be invited to attend the House Republican Conference
being pulled in two directions simultaneously, with some in the party urging a gubernatorial bid while others, especially those at the National Republican Congressional Committee, push him to run for re-election
But the senior elected official told Roll Call that Democrats in the state Senate have privately agreed that re-redistricting of the state Senate and Congressional boundaries will be in order if