Absentees Expected to Preserve Lungren Lead
Under Louisiana law, all Senate candidates will run in an open primary Nov. 2; if none receives 50 percent, the two top votegetters, regardless of party, advance to a Dec. 4 runoff.
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Under Louisiana law, all Senate candidates will run in an open primary Nov. 2; if none receives 50 percent, the two top votegetters, regardless of party, advance to a Dec. 4 runoff.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) helped christen a foundation bearing his own name Wednesday night that raked in at least $2 million from hundreds of supporters, including dozens of
Gets Veteran Senate Staffer. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) announced early this month that he has tapped Thomas Lehner to serve as his new chief of staff.
Alan Salazar, chief of staff to Udall, who is also weighing a Senate bid, said that the attorney general’s Senate “ambitions have apparently been stirred in the last 24 to 48 hours.”
Defending Campbell is Senate Chief Counsel for Employment Jean Manning.
Carl Levin (D) will be up for re-election, with any certainty because so much depends on whose tenure in the state House or Senate is up and what sitting Members will do.
Only two Independents currently hold seats in the House and Senate, Sen. Jim Jeffords and Rep. Bernie Sanders, both of Vermont.
Bob Welch all issued releases last week touting how they had snagged the coveted Wisconsin Right to Life Political Action Committee endorsement in the upcoming Senate race. How could this be?
Somewhere between 400 and 500 Members of Congress need to raise money to run for re-election every two years.
There is no Senate race on the docket in the Magnolia State in 2004. The state’s four House incumbents are running unopposed for renomination, and two Republican Members — Reps.
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John Thune of South Dakota — have scrambled the Senate outlook for November.
It’s not often that Republican and Democratic Senators in the highly partisan chamber help each other’s re-election efforts.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) will not run for re-election in November, confirmed a GOP colleague and two well-placed Republican strategists.
Incumbents prevailed in California’s 51 other Congressional primaries Tuesday, and most are expected to glide to re-election in November. In Orange County, Rep.
Owens, who was first elected to the governorship in 1998, was easily re-elected in 2002 and is already being mentioned as a potential contender for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Esser was elected to the state Senate in 2002 after spending four years in the state House.
Cooper is currently embroiled in the crowded Illinois Senate Democratic primary on behalf of wealthy businessman Blair Hull, who has already dumped $24 million of his own money into the race.
This is the third in a five-part series on the March 16 Illinois Senate primaries.
Hull, meanwhile, reiterated that “this is not an issue of domestic violence” even as he continued to refuse to discuss Sexton’s allegations, saying he does not want to “re-litigate” his divorce.
But if Houghton does opt to seek re-election, he should have no problem funding his campaign.