Jefferson Win Poses Dilemma for Party
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10 -- Rep. William J. Jefferson may be a pariah in some Washington political circles, but voters in this storm-battered city weighed in over the weekend with their own verdict regarding their scandal-plagued congressman: He's still our guy.
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Both candidates worked hard to keep the focus on their opponent's record.
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Recount results from King County on Wednesday made Democrat Christine Gregoire the apparent but unofficial winner of the extraordinarily close Washington governor&#39;s race.
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Regardless of who wins the White House on Tuesday, the success of the newly elected president will depend in large part on whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress.
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Early returns showed U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, whose long tenure was threatened by a federal bribery investigation, led Saturday's runoff in one of the nation's last unresolved midterm races.
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The political terrain favors Republicans, but personal dynamics in some races favor Democrats.
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Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson's indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful Ways and Means Committee, could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the speaker and...
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The Democrats suddenly face a map with unexpected opportunities in their battle for control of the Senate.
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Mirroring national rift within party, many D.C. area households are torn between Clinton, Obama.
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U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a  ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as  loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation  into $90,000 found in his freezer.
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The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is under way. And the outcome of this battle will likely not be determined by any one of the rising number of candidates for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, but rather by the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill.
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Despite a federal corruption investigation, Representative William J. Jefferson was re-elected with a decisive runoff victory.
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In a state that prizes undeclared voters, a small but potent group is deciding between two politically divergent candidates&#13;&#10;
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The six senators seeking the White House can talk the talk. Voting the vote is not so easy.
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Fully one dozen candidates filed to challenge embattled Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson in LouisianaÃ¢ÂÂs 2nd District, which under the stateÃ¢ÂÂs unique electoral system will hold a single-ballot, all-candidate primary election Nov. 7 Ã¢ÂÂ the date on which the congressional general elections will be held in states and districts elsewhere across the country.
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Every few years someone sounds a death knell over the Democratic Party, political analyst Norm Ornstein wearily noted, and it&#39;s just about then that the party of Jefferson and Madison resurrects itself yet again.
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One might expect Republican senators to cheer the prospect of a colleague becoming the party's presidential nominee.