Vermont

The Green Mountain State could turn a deeper shade of blue this year as Republican Gov. Jim Douglas steps down after three terms. Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie hopes to hold on to the seat for the GOP, but Democrat Peter Shumlin appears to have the edge even though a recount was needed to decide that primary contest. Polls indicate Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy, seeking his seventh six-year term, is running far ahead of GOP challenger Len Britton. Vermont's sole House member, Democrat Peter Welch, is favored to win a third term. Obama won Vermont in 2008.

all Vermont races

Senate

Democrat

Patrick Leahy

incumbent

Republican

Len Britton

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Governor

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Democrat

Peter Shumlin

Republican

Brian Dubie

DATA FROM: CQ-ROLLCALL Politics

House

House District

1st District

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Latest Vermont elections News

Leahy Challenger Len Britton Wins Fans, Funds With Do-It-Yourself Ads

By Jeanette Friedman

Has your favorite political party harassed you for cash until you're ready to scream? Send them to Len Britton. The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Vermont can teach hundreds of campaign ...

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Latest Polls on Key Governor and Senate Races

By Bruce Drake

Our weekend roundup of polls on key governor and Senate races updates Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington and ...

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Is Brian Dubie Married?

By Susan Powers

Republican Brian Dubie, Vermont's lieutenant governor, is up against almost a dozen other candidates in the state's gubernatorial race. The list includes independent Dennis Steele, who advocates ...

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How Old Is Brian Dubie?

By Susan Powers

Republican Brian Dubie, Vermont's lieutenant governor, is up against almost a dozen other candidates in the state's gubernatorial race. The list includes independent Dennis Steele, who advocates ...

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Patrick Leahy Wins Renomination for Senate in Vermont

By Tom Diemer

Vermont's Democratic voters, unimpressed with anti-incumbent sentiment in other parts of the country, chose Sen. Patrick Leahy to run for a seventh term Tuesday night. In a tight three-way contest for ...

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Establishment Candidates, Insurgents Both Score in Tuesday's Primaries

By Carl M. Cannon

Tuesday's primary lineup, featuring high profile elections in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska -- and lesser contests in Vermont and Oklahoma -- was billed as a test to see whether the political ...

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Latest From the Web

May 27, 2012

Roberts unlikely to bow to pressure on Obamacare

Source: Mail Tribune - Medford OR

In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that."

May 27, 2012

Obama out of order with his approach to Supreme Court

Source: The Record - Stockton CA

The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.

May 26, 2012

Liberals put the squeeze to Justice Roberts

Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC

"Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?"

May 25, 2012

Outside investigator to look at Vt. inmate fight

Source: Projo.com - Providence RI

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. An independent investigator will review a fight between two inmates at a Vermont prison that seriously injured one of them.

May 25, 2012

Vt's Leahy, Welch seek protection of women

Source: Projo.com - Providence RI

BURLINGTON, Vt. Vermont's U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch are going to be talking about their efforts to extend a law that protects women from violence.