Minn. Senate race draws major names
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A famous comedian. A multimillionaire trial lawyer. And maybe a Nobel laureate.
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Minnesota Republicans have set Feb. 5 for their precinct caucuses next year, joining voters in 17 other states in what is shaping up to be a national presidential primary.
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In the nation's most dramatic &#151; and most expensive Senate race &#151; Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life in a state where Republicans say the Democrat is out of touch with people in a state that solidly supports President Bush.
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By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press  JACKSON - A Mississippi senator who's running for state auditor was listing his Capitol phone number on the "contact me" portion of his campaign Web site.  Sen.
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The Republican base has felt left out lately. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint are two senators trying to do something about that
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Maryland held one of the yearÃ¢ÂÂs latest primaries, on Sept. 12. So it took practically no time at all for the contest between the nominees in the stateÃ¢ÂÂs competitive open-seat Senate contest, 10-term Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin and Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, to turn combative.
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The party is headed for the most wide-open nomination fight since Wendell Willkie. You remember him
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The contest for MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic Senate nomination has had some twists and turns, a predictable outcome of having 17 candidates file to run in TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs primary.
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Beyond a high-profile race in Illinois that will put a black in the U.S. Senate for only the fifth time, two Hispanics and one person who is part Native American are expected to win seats in November in the virtually all-white chamber.
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The race to lead the Senate Republican campaign committee and step into senior party circles intensified Wednesday, with both sides claiming more than half of the votes needed to win the post.
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The expected key Minnesota matchup between Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Democratic political veteran Mike Hatch, the state attorney general, was confirmed Tuesday, as both easily fended off primary challenges.
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Republican challenger John Thune beat Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, adding a South Dakota Senate seat to GOP gains in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas.
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Two years after this bellwether midwestern state helped decide the Presidential election, it is once again a key battleground in the race to control Congress
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As a result of November's election, the next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion.
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PONTIAC, Mich. -- Mike Bouchard was eager to make the sale as he bantered with Tracey Allen at a Labor Day street fair. Pitching his Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate, the Oakland County sheriff heard her say she favored Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow.
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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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As Washington is riveted by the potential political fallout from Sen. Tim Johnson's brain surgery, some people in South Dakota remember when one of its Senate seats sat empty for three years.