Races to Determine Control of House and Senate Have Been Nasty ...
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With control of the Senate hanging on nine nip-and-tuck contests, anxious candidates and their allies worked feverishly to gain an edge in races
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An exodus of senior Republican incumbents from the House is threatening to cripple Republican efforts to topple the Democratic majority in November.
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It's Nov. 8, the day after the election. The costliest and nastiest campaign for control of the House in history is .... not yet over.
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With about three weeks to go until the US presidential election, the two major party candidates are on the attack. The tone is becoming more acrimonious with each passing day.
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RICHMOND -- Campaigning is hard. Governing is even harder.
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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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As elections get tighter and more complicated, it's inevitable that one of them will be so thoroughly botched it'll have to be done over. It's time to start thinking about how. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Democrats are facing the same obstacle that stymied Republicans when they had control: paralyzingly thin margins in the Senate.
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The Senate and House make a controversial move to control alleged profiteering.
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.
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Democrats running Congress for the first time in more than a decade faltered at key points this year as they grudgingly passed important bills that many, or even most, of their House members opposed. When Republicans were in charge, they pledged to avoid such a fate.
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I just read an article on the Village Voice website that summed up one of the complaints I have had for some time about the Democratic Party: They won't fight.  At the same time, they are trying to convince conservative voters to vote for them instead of the Republicans and are losing votes on the liberal side as a result.   For both of these problems, I blame the Democratic Leadership Council.
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Caucus results shake up the race for the White House in both parties.
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The stalemate between the House and Senate on immigration reform is riling US voters.
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Republicans enter the fall campaign with their control of the House in jeopardy and the possibility of major Senate losses.
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their scripts as it appears that the race may actually be shaped once more by the eco...
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The 21 primaries and caucuses on February 5 are supposed to bring some clarity and order to the chaotic Republican race, but they could have the opposite effect