Senate races tightest in fight to rule Capitol
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Chicago Tribune - The Democratic contender for the U.S. Senate in Colorado favors the death penalty, opposes gun control and would have supported President Bush's decision to invade Iraq even if the White House had known no weapons of mass destruction would be found there.
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Democrats may be in charge of the Senate these days, yet Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no powerless bystander.
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Illinois- On the eve of the election, the big race here in Illinois is for the US Senate. With only hours to campaign, a new poll shows Barack Obama with a three to one lead over his Republican counterpart, Alan Keyes.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Leading the majority party in the Senate, a job that has been likened to herding cats, is tough enough in ordinary times. For Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), last week's Republican election triumphs paradoxically made the job tougher yet.
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Veteran lawmaker Dianne Byrum was in a surprisingly tight race this morning to hang on to her state House seat. The battle between the favored Byrum, a Democrat, and Republican Beth Chandler
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In the nation&#39;s most dramatic -- and most expensive Senate race -- Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life in a state where Republicans
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With an open governor's seat in Washington state and two Senate seats drawing vigorous challengers, voters in eight states chose their fall candidates Tuesday in the shadow of a divisive, tight presidential contest.
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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 US House of Representatives will remain firmly in the hands of George W. Bush's Republican party according to ballot-counting, but control of the Senate was too close to call in US congressional elections Tuesday.
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The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
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WASHINGTON -- Few electoral races have wandered so far into sitcom territory as the Senate contest in Virginia. In recent weeks the battle between Republican incumbent George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb has heated up considerably while the men go toe-to-toe -- or slur-to-slur,...
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The political life of the top Senate Democrat is on the line in the Nov. 2 congressional elections while the reputation and clout of a key House Republican known as "The Hammer" is also at stake.
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Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle holds a narrow lead over Republican challenger John Thune in the race for his Senate seat, according to a poll released Sunday.
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A Senate famous for its "deliberative pace" is hoping to rush out bills this week bolstering pensions, raising the minimum wage and cutting taxes before departing the Capitol and shifting their re-election campaigns into high gear.
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It has not been a pretty sight on Capitol Hill in the waning hours of Republican control. Once-powerful lawmakers have been shown the door at their own offices, forced to crowd in a basement or other nooks to finish their work, if not their careers. The usual backslapping has given way to back pats as colleagues try to comfort losers who will soon be going home.
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WASHINGTON - With massive get-out-the-vote drives, Republicans made a final push Tuesday to tighten their grip on control of Congress while Democrats looked for a surge of support that would give them a shot of at least taking back the Senate.