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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — State polls showing that more than half a dozen Senate seats were still within either party's grasp prompted Republicans and Democrats today to intensify their feverish campaigns for control of the chamber. Seeking to influence the truly undecided voters — and to make sure those who have made up their minds go to the polls — both parties marshaled volunteers to ring doorbells and hand out leaflets. They also paraded big-name politicians and star-quality supporters before the cameras and drowned out commercials for consumer goods with advertisements extolling their candidates and assailing their opponents. Politicians and...

<p>"You gotta do what you gotta do," a victorious Bill Clinton told Bob Dole when he complained about the demagogic Medicare ads that helped defeat him. By now this seems to have become the mantra of Mr. Clinton's party.</p> <p>To put the current midterm election in perspective, consider how the Democrats won their one-vote Senate majority. After losing the House and the White House, they won the Senate by persuading Vermont's Jim Jeffords to abandon the party in which he'd just been elected. For voting with the other side in organizing the Senate, he was rewarded with a committee chairmanship and an eventual expansion of his beloved Northeast dairy subsidy, a piece of pork notorious even in cynical Washington.</p>

The moron, Margaret Warner of PBS' News Hour is a good example. During her early October segment about the Torricelli campaign dropout disaster, talking to a fellow named Batz from the Washington Post, and a narrow-faced liberal from some other location, something important didn't come up. Jim Jeffords....(snip) For the full article, please click here.

Winds of war stirring U.S. Senate races Candidates have difficulty gauging how Iraq will affect election 09/28/2002 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News INDIANOLA, Iowa As 2,000 of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's best Democratic friends swayed to the beat of a country band and munched on Iowa beef, the prospect of war with Saddam Hussein seemed as far away as Iraq itself. Certainly Mr. Harkin hopes so. Hosting his annual steak fry at a farm country fairground, the Democrat seeking his fourth Senate term said voters know that both parties will do whatever they can to protect...

<p>AL GORE, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ... our most urgent task right now is to shift our focus and concentrate on immediately launching a new war against Saddam Hussein. And the president is proclaiming a new uniquely American right to preemptively attack whomsoever he may deem represents a potential future threat.</p>

Washington Prowler JEFFORDS LUBEDemocratic Senator Tim Johnson is one of the few Democrats to turn to "Independent" Sen. Jim Jeffords to buoy his campaign against hard-charging Republican Rep. John Thune. The Johnson camp apparently was hesitant to bring Jeffords out to South Dakota, but fellow South Dakotan and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle pressed Johnson to have Jeffords attend several weekend events focusing on education policy. Jeffords' expenses are being covered by the Senate's Democratic campaign committee. While many Democratic candidates have avoided Jeffords for his bland personality and long ties to Republicans, Daschle, according to some leadership staffers, believes...

NewsMax.com   Tuesday July 23, 2002; 9:10 a.m. EDT'Independent' Jeffords Fund-raising for Democrats When it comes to Vermont Sen. James Jeffords' Independent Party status, it depends on what the meaning of the word "independent" is. Jeffords' definition is apparently so broad that it allows him to raise campaign cash for the Democrats, while continuing to boast that his decision to jump ship on the GOP last year was in keeping with his state's nonpartisan streak. "Mr. Jeffords (has) just written a letter on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), a letter that the Democrats are using to fill...

<p>Thirty years ago today, the Environmental Protection Agency drastically restricted the production and use of DDT, an inexpensive pesticide once widely used to repel mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.</p> <p>Count us out of any celebration. Instead, we should mourn for the 30 million to 60 million people the World Health Organization reckons have died from malaria, lives that might have been saved by DDT. The American Council on Science and Health points out that in the two decades before it was restricted this "miracle pesticide" saved as many as 100 million lives in Africa, Asia and South America.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Jim Jeffords got the Capitol equivalent of a rock star's reception from Senate Democrats Thursday as they capped a week of celebrating Friday's one-year anniversary of Jeffords' defection from the GOP to become an independent.</p> <p>The move ended the one-vote margin that gave Republicans control of the Senate, and handed Democrats the majority and strength to negotiate with President Bush and the Republican-controlled House.</p>

Daschle announced that Jeffords is officially part of the Democrat caucus. All the notable vultures are there.

May 24 marks the first anniversary of your exit from the Republican Party. The White House was furious. Trent Lott called it a ''coup of one.'' Who holds the most stubborn grudge? Don Nickles and Trent Lott were about equal on that score. And Larry Craig. I expected it. As a moderate, you get people upset all the time. What was the worst thing anyone said to you? You probably couldn't print it. Those who didn't agree with my decision obviously made some rather negative remarks, both in writing and in person. I suppose the death threats could be defined...