Murkowski Leading in Alaska Senate Primary
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski,  dogged by criticism about being appointed to her job by her  governor father, was leading the state's Republican primary on  Tuesday, her first statewide election.
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Rasmussen Reports - Embattled Republican Senator Conrad Burns now trails Democrat Jon Tester 43% to 50%. Tester enjoyed the same seven-point advantage in early July, right after clinching the Democratic nomination.
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U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris led early primary election tabulations Tuesday in her bid to claim the GOP nomination for the Senate, and Rep. Jim Davis led in the race for the Democratic nomination to succeed popular Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Rasmussen Reports - Incumbent Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell now leads Republican challenger Mike McGavick 52% to 35%. &nbsp; She led by six in the previous poll.
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Democrat Bob Casey's lead is shrinking over Republican Sen. Rick Santorum in one of the nation's hottest Senate races, a poll released Tuesday shows.
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Democrats were on the verge of knocking off two Republican incumbents Wednesday and taking a 26-23 majority in the state Senate. âIt should work out, but Iâm not guaranteeing it,â said Sen. Ken Jacobsen
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Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski struggled against two GOP challengers Tuesday for the nomination for a second term, pinning his re-election hopes on a plan to build a $25 billion natural gas pipeline to Canada.
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Chart how the main Republican and Democrat contenders are faring in the polls ahead of the first key primary.
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A moderate Republican Senator is under threat from a conservative challenger on a day of primaries in the US.
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Democrat Bob Casey appears to have opened a double digit lead over Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania's Senate race, according to a poll released Tuesday.
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By ROBERT TANNER  An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. closing in on Bob Corker in what has become one of the country&#39;s marquee Senate races.&nbsp; Ford now trails Corker by a single point, 44% to 45%. &nbsp;Last month&#39;s poll showed him down by six; he trailed by 12 in July.
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Illinois- On the eve of the election, the big race here in Illinois is for the US Senate. With only hours to campaign, a new poll shows Barack Obama with a three to one lead over his Republican counterpart, Alan Keyes.
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Opposed by a popular former governor and beset by nepotism charges, freshman Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the Republican most in danger of losing her seat in the U.S. Senate, one she inherited from her father.
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Alaska's Supreme Court has  resurrected a ballot initiative that would allow voters to  abolish the governor's power to appoint a U.S. senator, a  high-profile issue in Alaska ever since Republican Gov. Frank  Murkowski named his daughter Lisa to the post in 2002.
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A new poll showed Democrat Amy Klobuchar with a strong lead over Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy in the U.S. Senate race, with the election less than two months away.
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in 2002 by the governor &#151; who also happens to be her father &#151; took a step closer to retaining her seat with a Republican primary win, and next faces a popular former two-term Democratic governor.