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We learned in 2006 that money isn’t everything,” says Rep. Pete Sessions, the Texas Republican who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee and who is perhaps the man most responsible for whether the GOP wins the House this fall. “Environment can play a bigger role than money.” ...Those 26 races represent the good news for Republicans; the bad news is that they will need to win another 13 seats to control the House next January. And in a lot of the districts where the GOP stands a chance — districts that supported Bush and McCain, or for which the GOP...

WASHINGTON – Once, California Democrats led the way to a year of the women. Now, nearly two decades later, Republicans hope it's their turn. Meg Whitman won the party's nomination for California governor on Tuesday and Carly Fiorina will carry the GOP banner into the fall campaign for a Senate seat, a pair of wealthy businesswomen and first-time candidates running against veteran politicians in a year of palpable anti-establishment sentiment. In next-door Nevada, a third woman contender, Sharron Angle, won the right to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the fall. And hundreds of miles to the east, South...

Reporting from San Francisco Dana Walsh boasts of a donor list most congressional candidates can only envy: 33,000 people in 50 states. It's not that Walsh enjoyed much success the last time she ran; a Republican in this overwhelmingly Democratic city, she placed third in 2008, with less than 10% of the vote. What attracts the money and support — more than $1.4 million so far — is Walsh's target: Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker and an arch-villain to conservatives like Karl Schlueter. "Nancy's got to go," said the 65-year-old retiree, who lives in the Milwaukee suburbs and last month...

Poll after poll shows dissatisfaction with President Bush and an "enthusiasm gap" working against Republicans heading into next year's elections, yet the top Republican presidential candidates are running even with or ahead of the top Democrats in head-to-head matchups. "A major cautionary note for the Democrats at this point in the election cycle is the disparity between Americans' partisan preferences for the next president in the abstract and their preferences between specific candidates being offered up to the voters," the Gallup Poll said. In a Quinnipiac University Poll released last week, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani leads Democratic...

BATON ROUGE, La. - U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), whose Washington office was raided by the FBI amid a federal bribery investigation, will face a dozen challengers in the November election. The official sign-up period for Louisiana's Nov. 7 congressional election ended Friday. In Louisiana, there are no earlier party primaries; if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote on Election Day, the top two go to a December runoff. Although some are lesser-knowns, a few challengers carry significant name recognition, political ties and fundraising potential that could lead the eight-term Democrat into his...

Just announced on fox. Big victory for us!!!

This cause originated upon the filing of a complaint for a writ of mandamus. Upon consideration of relators’ motion for an emergency peremptory writ of mandamus, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that relators’ motion be, and hereby is, granted, and that a writ of mandamus be, and hereby is, granted to compel respondent Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to reissue and enforce his October 26, 2004 Directive 2004-45 to all eighty-eight counties insofar as it permits, in accordance with R.C. 3505.21 and 3506.13, one duly designated challenger per precinct and, after the polls close, one duly designated witness per precinct,...

GOP Senate candidates face off with similar themes Posted on August 21, 2002 The three Republicans attempting to unseat Louisiana's junior U.S. senator, Democrat Mary Landrieu, outlined similar campaign themes - less government intervention, lower taxes and choice in education - Tuesday night. But one theme most popular among U.S. Rep. John Cooksey of Monroe, Elections Commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell of New Orleans and state Rep. Tony Perkins of Baton Rouge was what they all said is the need to replace Landrieu - a position welcomed by the Professional Republican Women of Caddo, which played host for the candidates Tuesday....

I am relatively new to CT politics but am curious about the upcoming election for the office of Attorney General. Have any credible challengers to Blumenthal announced their intent to run for office and what's the likelihood of their success?