Who Wants to Control the Senate?
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Tim Johnson's illness has threatened the Democrats' majority. But that may not be such a bad thing
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Republicans battled Democrats last night for renewed control of the the US Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans captured Democratic seats in Georgia and South Carolina last
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At times it was hard to tell who was the Democrat and who was the Republican in what has shaped up as one of the most important Senate races in the country.
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For the first time in almost 30 years, the full Senate plans to take up the D.C. voting-rights issue in a showdown Tuesday that could either give the legislation a strong push or kill it for this year.
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The G.O.P.'s weakness creates a chance in the Tennessee senate race for a certain kind of Democrat
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Voters this fall could take small steps toward increased diversity in the Senate.
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Suddenly, the Democrats' grip on the Senate looks very tenuous indeed. With the party poised to take power with a 51-49 edge in January, Sen. Tim Johnson's unexpected hospitalization ignited the possibility of a 50-50 Senate and a return to the unprecedented power-sharing pact that existed during the first half of 2001.
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Preliminary results so far of Senate races held Tuesday in the United States showed a tie between Republicans and Democrats, with each side winning five states.
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Rasmussen Reports - Incumbent Republican Sen. John Kyl is in cruise control and appears well positioned to win a third term in the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Kyl leading challenger Jim Pederson 52% to 35%. His lead was 19 in July and the current numbers are repeats of the results from June&#39;s survey.
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A US senator suffers a possible stroke, which could lead to Republicans regaining control of the Senate.
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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Money and mud are flying in the final days of nine close contests that will determine which party controls the Senate next year.
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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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The New York senator has been tapped by Democratic leaders to try to engineer the party's Senate comeback.
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Senator John Kerry is pushing the concept, and so are some Senate Republicans. That is why lawmakers and lobbyists say that regardless of who wins the presidential election
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Democrats could have a chance at seizing a crucial Republican U.S. Senate seat in Colorado in a neck-and-neck battle pitting a brewing magnate against a Hispanic from humble origins.
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It will take a while yet to determine exactly where the challenge to Norm Coleman ranks among the Democrats&rsquo; bids for expanding their narrow Senate majority next year. But the Minnesota contest is already grabbing outsized attention for a nascent 2008 Senate race, thanks to the celebrity surrounding the increasingly certain candidacy of comedian Al Franken.