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Three New Senators Will Take Office 2 Months Early
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 25) - The Senate could see three new faces in November, two months before a new Congress takes the stage with likely a lot bigger Republican cast. Barring unforeseen disputes, winners of special elections in Illinois, Delaware and West Virginia are expected to take their seats - and their first votes - within days of the Nov. 2 election. The early start will give the three an edge in seniority over their fellow newly elected senators, who must wait until the new Congress convenes Jan. 3. They'll immediately face votes in a lame-duck session on some thorny issues, like ...
Michelle Obama Hitting Campaign Trail: Headlining Fund-raisers for Democrats
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama returns to the campaign trail for the first time since 2008 next month, with the White House announcing her first wave of political travel in the run-up to the November election. The schedule released Tuesday has Mrs. Obama doing nine fund-raisers in seven cities. In a telephone briefing, two senior administration officials told reporters that Mrs. Obama will be adding more events once they are finalized. Her schedule was crafted with input from the West Wing so she does not overlap with President Obama and Vice President Biden. The selection of her stops ...
Alexi Giannoulias, Mark Kirk Tied in Illinois Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe Illinois Senate race has sometimes seemed like an affair of who was doing a better job of losing than winning, and a new poll conducted Aug. 28-Sept. 1 conducted by the Chicago Tribune and WGN-TV has that contest all tied up, with Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk each getting 34 percent, with 22 percent undecided. Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones is drawing 6 percent and Libertarian Mike Labno gets 3 percent. Giannoulias, the first-term state treasurer, and Kirk, a five term congressman, both are struggling to overcome unfavorable views of them held by voters -- ...
The Battle of the Weak: Alexi Giannoulias Edging Mark Kirk in Illinois Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDemocrat Alexi Giannoulias has a statistically insignificant lead over Republican Mark Kirk in the race for Illinois' Senate seat -- a contest that Public Policy Polling says is pitting two of the weakest candidates in the country against each other. Giannoulias runs ahead of Kirk by 37 percent to 35 percent with 9 percent for Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones and 19 percent undecided, in the PPP poll conducted Aug. 14-15. The margin of error is 4.1 points. Both candidates have struggled against damaging stories about them during the campaign. Kirk came under fire for misleading statements ...
Mark Kirk, Alexi Giannoulias Tied in Illinois Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Rep. Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are tied at 40 percent each in their race for Illinois' Senate seat, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 9. Eight percent prefer some other candidate and 12 percent are undecided. Kirk and Giannoulias, the state's treasurer, have been within four points of each other in Rasmussen's three previous polls dating back to June 7. Both men have struggled with troublesome disclosures about their backgrounds: Kirk, for making misleading statements about his military service and Giannoulias because of stories about his family's ...
Rand Paul in Kentucky: Campaign 2010's Most Important Senate Contest
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe other day, I was wondering which of the 37 Senate races underway at the moment is the most important. The one in Nevada? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could be booted out of the top Senate position by former Republican state assemblywoman Sharron Angle, a Tea Party darling who has called for phasing out Social Security, who has scolded out-of-work workers seeking unemployment benefits as "spoiled," and who is doing all she can to avoid taking questions from mainstream reporters. Or is it the Illinois race? This contest features two weak and flailing candidates; Republican Rep. Mark ...
Obama Fund-Raising Sprint: NY, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, D.C.
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama is ramping up his fundraising efforts for Democrats in the coming days, headlining events that will raise millions of dollars for the 2010 election contests, including a series of $30,400-a-person dinners and cheaper, less exclusive receptions. And on Tuesday, I've learned, Obama meets in Washington with a small group of elite donors and fundraisers who were at the top of the big-money network for his 2008 presidential campaign. "Whether it's through a first-of-its-kind, 50-state grassroots field effort in Organizing for America or the $50 million Vote2010 commitment, ...
Flawed Candidates Make 2010 the Year of Living Dangerously
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI'm betting both parties would love to restart this campaign season and call do-overs on more than a few primaries. Maybe the choices weren't ideal, but in some very high-stakes races, the candidates who won are showing why they probably shouldn't have. This phenomenon can be found coast to coast and points in between: Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and California. In some cases, the outcome of the general-election contests is unlikely to change even with a deeply flawed winner. But in others, we're talking about real impact inside and outside a state. ...
Obama to Ramp Up Democratic Fundraising Schedule
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama will ramp up his fundraising for Democrats in the coming weeks, but a top headliner, first lady Michelle Obama, is taking a pass on such events until the fall, Politics Daily has learned. While the details of Obama's stops have not been firmed up, "as Election Day gets closer, the president will continue to do more political activity to support Democratic candidates on the ballot who share his vision for moving America forward," Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Politics Daily. Mrs. Obama -- who is more popular than her husband -- could be an enormous draw for ...
Illinois Senate Race Still Tight, But Support Slips for GOP's Mark Kirk
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn a race where both candidates have had to struggle with controversies, Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias continue to be in a tight contest for Illinois' Senate seat, but Kirk's support has declined for the third straight month in Rasmussen Report's surveys. Giannoulias, the state treasurer, and Kirk, a congressman, are statistically tied with Giannoulias ahead 40 percent to 39 percent with 9 percent preferring some other candidate and 12 percent undecided, according to the survey conducted July 7. The margin of error is 4.5 points. But perhaps reflecting that Kirk's ...
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