Hawaii votes in heated Senate primary
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Hawaii residents choose between liberal incumbent Sen. Daniel Akaka and nervy challenger Rep. Ed Case in Saturday's Democratic primary.
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Democratic Rep. Harold Ford is running even with Republican Bob Corker in Tennessee, while Democrat Jon Tester has edged ahead of Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana, according to polls released Sunday for some of the most contested Senate races.
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Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii had their say Tuesday in a hard-fought presidential campaign that has grown increasingly negative with charges of broken promises, plagiarism and petty partisanship
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Veteran U.S. Sen.  Daniel Akaka, an 82-year-old Democrat from Hawaii, defeated  upstart challenger and fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Ed Case in  the state's primary election.
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Senator Barack Obama scored two early victories in the biggest single day of primary voting on the Democratic calendar.
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A Senate electoral playing field that was already wide open for 2008 has become considerably more perilous for Republicans with the retirement of Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) and the resignation of scandal-scarred Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho).
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"Primary Mistake" (Sentinel, 212 pages. $25.95), by Steve Laffey: There are a lot of possible reasons Steve Laffey lost last year's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island against former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Laffey points the finger in one direction &#151; at his own party.
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Democrats living overseas became the first to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, casting ballots at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where Sen. Barack Obama lived as a child.
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John McCain won his home state's GOP primary Tuesday, beating Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee by overcoming anger from conservatives who oppose his stance on illegal immigration. Hillary Rodham Clinton won on the Democratic side.
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Florida Republican Rep. Katherine Harris will get to face off against first-term Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson this fall, as she defeated three other GOP candidates in TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Senate primary.
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Both political parties have relatively close delegate races heading into Super Tuesday, when voters in nearly half the states and American Samoa will vote in primaries and caucuses.
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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.........
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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.
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With more than half the Florida vote counted, the Arizona Senator is projected to win the winner-take-all GOP primary
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Few, if any, states are as dedicated to their congressional incumbents as Hawaii. In the more than 47 years that it has been a state, Hawaii has never rejected a Senate or House incumbent seeking re-election.
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Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii make their choices on Tuesday in a heated presidential battle, with Hillary Clinton hoping to snap Barack Obama's winning streak ahead of big contests in March.
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Democrats were on the verge of knocking off two Republican incumbents Wednesday and taking a 26-23 majority in the state Senate. âIt should work out, but Iâm not guaranteeing it,â said Sen. Ken Jacobsen