Ex-Gov. Shaheen joins N.H. Senate race
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Former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen has been leading the polls for next year's Senate race. On Friday, she announced that she's actually running.
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With all three of New Mexico's House incumbents pursuing the Senate seat left open by retiring five-term Republican Pete V. Domenici, the political game of musical chairs -- full-contact rules -- is already well under way across the state's electoral map. The candidate fields for all three seats are developing fast and are very fluid, with new developments on almost a daily basis.
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Former senator scheduled to speak in New Orleans -- appearance, billed as anti-poverty speech, now expected to serve as platform for ending Democrat's White House bid.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 18 -- Former Texas senator Phil Gramm was wrapping up his introduction in Des Moines on Saturday morning when a white-haired man wearing gray slacks and a big, brown leather jacket ambled up the aisle and stopped at the side of the stage, the curl of a smile on his lips.
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Sen. James Jeffords may be a man without a party, but he has plenty of high-powered friends. Facing his first re-election bid since leaving the Republican Party, the Vermont independent on Wednesday got an endorsement from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and a boost from Republican Gov. James Douglas, who said he will not campaign against Jeffords because he "has served the state well."
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John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, will be one of the busiest recently retired senators, with four new positions.
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DES MOINES. Dec. 17 -- Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) has been here before, looking up at the front-runners and hoping for a late surge to propel his candidacy.
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Dr. John Barrasso began his rounds on Capitol Hill on Monday, learning how to be a senator. Barrasso, a conservative Republican surgeon who was until now a Wyoming state senator, was sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney Monday afternoon. Gov. Dave Freudenthal selected him to fill the seat of Sen. Craig Thomas, who died June 4 while being treated for leukemia.
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New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici is wasting no time putting retirement rumors to rest, staging his first major fundraiser for the 2008 election after months of asserting that he will run next year for a seventh Senate term.
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Fred Thompson, a former Tennessee senator and "Law &amp; Order" actor, will take a step toward a formal presidential candidacy next week, several officials with knowledge of the plans said
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ATLANTA -- The three candidates vying to be Georgia&#39;s next senator clashed Sunday morning over homeland security, campaign advertising and taxes during one of their last joint appearance before Tuesday&#39;s election.
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Former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen announced Friday that she will run again for the U.S. Senate seat that Republican John Sununu beat her out for in 2002.
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Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback billed himself as a "full-scale conservative" Tuesday as he courted activists in the state where precinct caucuses have traditionally kicked off the presidential nominating season.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former Senator Fred Thompson, after months of flirting with a possible presidential run, will enter the 2008 Republican nomination contest next week with a Sept. 6 Internet announcement and five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his organization said today.
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New Hampshire's senior senator is backing Republican Mitt Romney for president.
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The hotly contested race to fill Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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CONCORD, N.H., Jan. 10 -- Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), who captured less than 2 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, called Thursday for a recount to ensure that all ballots in the Democratic contest were counted.