Worlds Apart: Democrats’ Electoral Targets Are Different for White House, Congressional Battles
Each state is also home to an open-seat Senate contest.
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Each state is also home to an open-seat Senate contest.
Spending on the 34 Senate contests accelerated the fastest.
While the poll shows Voinovich appears vulnerable, the absence of a well-funded challenger leaves the Buckeye State contest far from inclusion in the top tier of Senate races this cycle.
The nascent proposal, however, has already run into naysayers in both the House and Senate.
opportunist who’s running on the one ticket that’s not filled,” Chris Paulitz of the National Republican Congressional Committee said, suggesting that Gallagher’s $2,000 contribution to President Bush’s re-election
Senate,” said Boulder NOW President Regina Cowles. “But I really don’t think that’s the motivation here.”
It’s hardly scientific, but the re-election campaign of Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) is running an online poll on who should be the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Sen.
Having just staked his credibility on returning a moderate colleague to the Senate, conservative Sen.
The incumbent, who won re-election in 2002 with 93 percent of the vote, is unlikely to face competition in the Sept. 14 primary.
John Cooksey (R), who held it for three terms before embarking on an ill-fated Senate candidacy.
She was appointed to the state Senate by Nelson to fill a vacancy in 1997. The following year she won a full term to the seat and was re-elected in 2002.
In a sign that incumbency sometimes trumps majority, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) raised more than three times as much money for his re-election bid from U.S. corporations as former Rep.
to come up with a compromise that can pass muster in that chamber and still garner 51 votes in the Senate.
spokesman to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) made him the top contributor to the Republican Governors Association during the 2001-02 election cycle, when 36 of 50 state governors were up for re-election
Chris John (D-La.) win his Senate seat this fall, which would probably mean Breaux at some point will cut a large six-figure check to the Louisiana Democratic Party.
Life is tense these days in the “The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body,” aka the United States Senate.
Dunn won re-election in 2002 with 60 percent of the vote and Republicans dominate the district’s state legislative seats, GOPers say. The story in the 5th district runs along similar lines.
Some people viewed the 2002 South Dakota Senate race between Sen. Tim Johnson (D) and then-Rep.
without having to exit the building and then re-enter through security.
Kerrey gave $14,000 out of his own wallet to four former Senate colleagues’ re-election bids, as well as $1,000 each to the presidential campaigns of Kerry and Sen Joe. Lieberman (D-Conn.).