LaHood Eyes a Tough Task
The odds-on favorite to lead the beleaguered party has been wealthy paper company executive Andy McKenna Jr., whom LaHood supported in the 2004 Senate primary.
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The odds-on favorite to lead the beleaguered party has been wealthy paper company executive Andy McKenna Jr., whom LaHood supported in the 2004 Senate primary.
The final category — and the most important one — includes potential open seats that weren’t in play last year but could see spirited competition without an incumbent seeking re-election.
If he does run, he will be “very well positioned” for re-election, the pollsters found, with 56 percent of the Democrats surveyed saying that they would vote to re-elect him.
Phil Crane (R-Ill.), who eventually lost a tough battle for re-election.
Mehlman, a former assistant secretary of Commerce for technology policy in the Bush administration who is perhaps better known as the brother of Ken Mehlman — the campaign manager for the Bush-Cheney re-election
Tom Reynolds was unanimously re-elected in December as the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee and quickly moved to retain the senior staff that helped the GOP grow its majority in
The House voted it down, 31-267, while the Senate defeated their version 1-74.
John Thune (R) was the surprise of the 2004 cycle, marking the first time since 1952 that a Senate leader had been defeated for re-election.
Three years later, Sorenson went off to join a plastic surgery program in Utah and his wife, Sheila, replaced him in the state Senate.
“I earned capital on the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” President Bush said after his re-election — and a strengthened majority on Capitol Hill plans to help him.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to entrust Sen.
Jesse Jackson, who stood outside the Senate chamber during Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony and button-holed various Democrats as they came out in an effort to round up at least the one Senator needed to
Immediately prior to joining Foxx’s office, Poole worked as a field representative in North Carolina for President Bush in his re-election campaign.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made a $500,000 donation to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Monday to help his party’s cash-strapped fundraising arm dig out of debt as it prepares
The Navigators, another all-Republican shop, have been contacted by 11 prospective clients since President Bush won re-election and the GOP strengthened its grip on Congress, said Cesar Conda, a
Maria Cantwell (D) in her bid for re-election in 2006.
Mineta also helped — indirectly, but notably — the Bush re-election campaign.
Frist is retiring from the Senate in keeping with a two-term-limit pledge.
They succeed outgoing deputies Baron Hill (Ind.) and Max Sandlin (Texas) — two moderate Blue Dog Democrats who lost difficult re-election bids this cycle.
Al Salvi, who spent almost $1.5 million of his own money on an unsuccessful Senate bid in 1996. He also lost a race for Illinois secretary of state in 1998.