Candidates in Special Georgia House Race Target Front-Runner
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Georgia Republican Jim Whitehead, the apparent front-runner in a June 19 special election in the stateÃ¢ÂÂs strongly Republican-leaning 10th District, has come under fire from political opponents in the raceÃ¢ÂÂs homestretch Ã¢ÂÂ including on the hot-button issue of immigration.
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There never was much doubt that Niki Tsongas would enjoy a significant name identification advantage as a candidate in the Sept. 4 special election primary for MassachusettsÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ vacant 5th Congressional District seat.
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Four high-profile Democrats are running in the Sept. 12 primary to succeed veteran New York Democratic Rep. Major R. Owens in BrooklynÃ¢ÂÂs 11th Congressional District. And they have set up a race so tight that even local political insiders are loathe to predict a winner.
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Republican voters in OhioÃ¢ÂÂs 18th Congressional District will vote Thursday in a highly unusual special primary election to select a party nominee to replace retiring six-term Republican Rep. Bob Ney Ã¢ÂÂ who in August, in the face of serious ethics controversies, renounced the nomination he had won in a May 2 primary.
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Having served 17 terms, Illinois Rep. Phil Crane is the most senior Republican in the House. His quest for an 18th is proving difficult and has party strategists scrambling to fend off a challenge from Democrat Melissa Bean.
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Sen. Daniel Akaka faces a challenge in Saturday's Democratic primary from a congressman who wants voters to dump the 82-year-old lawmaker in favor of younger blood.
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The front-runners for each party's nomination are also perceived by voters as the 'toughest' in their lineups.
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Lost in the fuss over next week's Super Tuesday presidential contests is the fact that the 2008 congressional campaign also has its official kickoff that day, with primaries in Illinois. Not that this event is being greeted with enthusiasm by many Republicans, who appear desperate to hold the White House to counteract the near-certain extension of the majorities Democrats won in both the Senate and the House in 2006.
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Until last week, no one was giving millionaire Democratic candidate Tim Mahoney much of a chance in his race for Congress. Now he's the frontrunner
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A former game programmer is running for the U.S. House of Representatives with a platform forcefully addressing tech industry issues like digital copyright protection. But he still lags far behind his opponent in the fund-raising department. By Jacob Ogles.
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Mark Richt knows he'll have to get a little creative when he divvies up playing time for Georgia's running backs next season. Not so on Saturday. Thomas Brown is the undisputed starter for the biggest game of the season.
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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican Fred Thompson were the frontrunners in South Carolina&#39;s first-in-the-South 2008 presidential primary, according to a poll Sunday.
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Charlie Summers is the first Republican to officially declare a candidacy for the open U.S. House seat in MaineÃ¢ÂÂs 1st Congressional District. The third-time House contender also is a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve Ã¢ÂÂ and he left Friday, three days after announcing his House bid, for a yearlong deployment to Iraq.
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Georgiaâs American-educated and pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was leading in polls ahead of an election Saturday cast as a bid to restore his mandate.
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Newcomer Hank Johnson, who galvanized Georgia voters, is expected to hold onto the seat for the party in November
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Analysis: The former leader of the Christian right suffers a humiliating defeat in his Georgia primary race, thanks to his ties to a disgraced lobbyist
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TIME photographers take an exclusive look at the campaigns on the biggest primary day of the year