I-95 corridor could be key to control of Senate
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A look at the lower end of I-95, the interstate highway that links Canada and the Florida Keys along the East Coast, shows why Republicans expect to hold onto the Senate in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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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.
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Two years after this bellwether midwestern state helped decide the Presidential election, it is once again a key battleground in the race to control Congress
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Already, there is a new verb floating around the Capitol: &quot;Daschled.&quot; It describes what can happen to those, like the Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, who oppose
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YANKTON, S.D. -- Democratic hopes of regaining the Senate majority hinge first on defending five endangered seats, with none more important than that of Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle. Daschle, long a fixture of South Dakota politics, is holding on by a thread as Republicans spend millions to try to protect their thin majority and topple a high-profile nemesis. Democrats have spent even more, making this lightly populated prairie state the unlikely epicenter of a battle for control of the Senate.
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Republicans are likely to add to their one-vote US Senate majority tomorrow. Whatever the outcome, partisanship may be the winner.
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After a pep talk from Arlen Specter, the embattled Idaho Senator may fight to keep his seat
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As New Yorkers go to the polls tomorrow, perhaps the most important question other than who wins the presidency will be whether the Democrats make inroads in Republican control of the State Senate.
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Called the Trans-Texas Corridor, it is the most ambitious highway project since the Eisenhower  administration introduced the interstate system in the 1950s, and experts are watching to see whether the plan could work in other states.
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For senators with presidential aspirations, 2007 looms like a potential minefield.
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By taking that many hotly contested seats, they have a shot at capturing the upper chamber. Here&#39;s how it could work out. Not so long ago, the Democrats&#39; chances of wresting the Senate away from the Republicans looked not impossible but remote.
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By Mike Riopell  SPRINGFIELD - The state's chance to lure a state-of-the-art power plant and the hundreds of jobs it could bring to east-central Illinois could hinge on lawmakers' repairs to key legislation.
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In addition to President Bush&#39;s resounding electoral triumph, his expansive coattails also will likely have a long-reverberating political impact upon the Senate.
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Can the road that led from a prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam to a seat in the United States Senate to a memorably bitter battle with George Bush for the 2000 Republican nomination, end four years from now with Sen.
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Whether Democrats regain control of the Senate could hinge on whether Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., ignores or embraces state-party calls for him to give up his seat and seek the job being vacated by embattled Gov. James McGreevey.
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While the 2008 presidential campaign  grabs most of the headlines, Republicans hope to buck the odds  on another front -- the U.S. Senate, where last year they  narrowly lost control to the Democrats.
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Republican gains in the Senate could give President Bush his best chance yet to achieve his No. 1 energy priority &#151; opening an oil-rich but environmentally sensitive Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling.