Florida's Campaign to Diversify Senate
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The Senate will get either its first Cuban American member, or another woman, when Floridians vote next Tuesday. Former housing Secretary Mel Martinez and Democrat Betty Castor are locked in as tight a race as President Bush and John Kerry.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate race in America&#39;s political battle was proving as pitched as the main event yesterday as Republicans renewed their claim on the Senate floor and reached out to grab hold of Democratic seats across the south.
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It would be hard to accuse Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, of overstating the case for a GOP return to the majority in the 2008 elections.
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White House hopefuls seek to portray themselves to Florida voters as the true conservative in race.
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With every vote at stake in the tight Democratic White House race, one lawmaker has proposed a way to ensure all voices are heard -- calling a re-vote in Florida, scene of an infamous re-count that ushered George W. Bush to power.
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In the latest turn toward controversy in FloridaÃ¢ÂÂs 16th District Ã¢ÂÂ long represented by resigned Republican Rep. Mark Foley Ã¢ÂÂ Florida Democrats have accused the state Division of Elections of giving unfair advantages to state Rep. Joe Negron, the RepublicansÃ¢ÂÂ candidate to replace Foley, in his bid to prevent a takeover by Democratic nominee Tim Mahoney.
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Los Angeles Times - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; In this humid Southern capital, Florida Secretary of State Glenda E. Hood is feeling the political heat. Lawsuits allege she has disenfranchised poor and minority voters. Critics claim that she's creating a partisan atmosphere.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Seniority means a lot in the US Capitol halls, where senators of either party can earn some clout with enough time served.
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The hotly contested race to fill Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans and Democrats in Florida
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President Bush's conservative coattails, geography and campaigns crafted to take advantage of both helped Republicans to a four-seat gain in Senate elections this year.
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Maryland is a state where politicians get elected and tend to settle in. But Tuesday's party primaries are the first step in a dramatic reordering of the political hierarchy, one that will mean a new U.S. senator for the first time in decades and could result in new faces in every statewide office.
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Although five Democrats filed to run in the Sept. 5 primary for FloridaÃ¢ÂÂs open governorÃ¢ÂÂs seat, the contest has come down to a two-man battle between 11th District Rep. Jim Davis and state Sen. Rod Smith.
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The New York senator has been tapped by Democratic leaders to try to engineer the party's Senate comeback.
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The latest, unofficial returns in the Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate in Florida. The winner is marked by an 'x'.
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With far more Republicans than Democrats facing reelection in 2008, Democrats hope to widen their independent-bolstered 51-to-49 majority, perhaps by three or four seats. But it takes serious political talent to knock off a Senate incumbent, and it's mostly red-leaning states that are in play....
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Early returns in FloridaÃ¢ÂÂs Republican Senate primary suggest that the contest is turning out about as expected for two-term Rep. Katherine Harris, in both the positive sense and the negative sense.