Incumbent seen winning Md. House primary
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A six-term incumbent congressman emerged Saturday as the apparent winner of a hotly contested primary after officials finished counting more than 11,000 provisional ballots.
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Region's foreign-born communities have grown so rapidly that their ballots could be decisive in Tuesday's Potomac Primary.
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Still too close to call, initial results show the Senator with an edge over Mitt Romney in the winner-take-all GOP primary
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The come-from-behind candidate scores an impressive win over Mitt Romney in the nation's first primary, while the Clinton-Obama race appears tighter than expected
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Maryland Democratic Rep. Albert R. Wynn clinched victory in the Sept. 12 primary in the 4th District, following a final vote count and a concession by challenger Donna Edwards, who fell just short of toppling the seven-term incumbent.
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A state lawmaker could become the first Muslim elected to Congress after edging out three rivals Tuesday for his district's Democratic nomination.
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Seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. WynnÃ¢ÂÂs primary contest Tuesday in MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District got nowhere near the publicity received by Republican Sen. Lincoln ChafeeÃ¢ÂÂs fight for political survival in Rhode Island. Yet the slow and still-incomplete count in Maryland 4 indicates that Wynn may have ended up with the closest shave of any incumbent in the nine states that held Sept. 12 primaries.
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Adrian M. Fenty won the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor last night, trouncing Linda W. Cropp in the primary for the city's highest elected post after promising voters he would bring new energy and ideas to tackle long-standing problems.
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Voters in Idaho head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that includes a congressional bid by a commissioner who once sought to have his county declared a disaster area because of an influx of illegal immigrants.
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Next stop: Michigan primary on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
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Democrat Donna Edwards, an attorney and longtime political activist, appeared little threat to seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. Wynn last spring when she initiated a late-starting challenge for the Sept.12 primary in MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District.
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Republican voters in OhioÃ¢ÂÂs 18th Congressional District will vote Thursday in a highly unusual special primary election to select a party nominee to replace retiring six-term Republican Rep. Bob Ney Ã¢ÂÂ who in August, in the face of serious ethics controversies, renounced the nomination he had won in a May 2 primary.
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The number of Nov. 7 House general elections in which the winner has not been firmly established has dwindled to four. But at least one of these, the controversy-plagued contest for the open seat in FloridaÃ¢ÂÂs 13th District, is unlikely to be decided for weeks Ã¢ÂÂ and even has the potential to kick off the Democratic-controlled 110th Congress in January with a dispute over whether to seat the certified winner.
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Often when the dust settles on a Democratic Senate primary in Maryland, the hard work is done and the winner can expect to roll over the Republican in the fall. Not this time.
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Highlights of preliminary exit poll data in the Maryland and Virginia presidential primaries Tuesday:
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Democrats in MinnesotaÃ¢ÂÂs strongly Democratic 5th Congressional District put history into motion by nominating state Rep. Keith Ellison in TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs primary Ã¢ÂÂ all but guaranteeing that he will become the first Muslim ever elected to Congress.
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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen will head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in the upcoming 2007-08 election cycle, as it defends the House majority the party won in last monthÃ¢ÂÂs elections.