Ted Stevens once described himself as a “mean, miserable SOB.”
He could wilt a lowly Senate aide or a reporter with a scowl in the Senate hallways, yet his Incredible Hulk ties and thundering speeches on the Senate floor were often paired with a fierce loyalty and decades-long affection for fellow senators
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President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, who have been starved for good news through much of 2010, finally received a generous helping Tuesday night.
Republicans, meanwhile, were left with several new reasons to wonder whether all the favorable national trends showing in the polls are enough to overcome local candidates who are
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Money swept the system but the establishment gained a toehold in Connecticut last night, as wrestling maven Linda McMahon coasted to the GOP Senate nomination but second-time self-funding Democrat Ned Lamont was trounced in an upset by his primary rival for governor.
McMahon, who’s spent north of $22 million of her personal
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet beat back a tough Democratic primary challenge from former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff Tuesday, holding off the electoral wave that has already claimed two incumbent senators and threatened to drown Bennet’s short political career.
With 61 percent of precincts in, Bennet held a nine-point lead over Romanoff,
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Former Sen. Ted Stevens, an icon of Alaska politics who used the influence he gained during 40 years in the Senate to further the interests of his state and its citizens, died Monday night in a plane crash in a remote part of the state. Stevens was 86.
Nine people were aboard
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The push by congressional Republicans to deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants has opened up a split in the GOP, with several former Bush administration officials warning that the party could lose its claim to one of its proudest legacies: the 14th Amendment.
For Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C) and
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It’s a hope so audacious that few Republicans will even acknowledge it out loud: the possibility that the balance of power in the Senate might be up for grabs in November. The GOP would have to take 10 seats, knocking off virtually every targeted Democratic incumbent and sweeping the open seats held by
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Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was on a small airplane that crashed in a remote part of southwestern Alaska, but it is not known whether he survived the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration says there were eight people on board flight, with five deaths and one injured. The FAA has not released
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Primary elections in Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota and Connecticut on Tuesday will provide perhaps the best snapshot of the electorate’s mood since May 18, when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was ousted in a Democratic primary and Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Here’s POLITICO’s guide on
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Dozens of U.S. Senate employees have been able to add tens of thousands of dollars to their government salaries by working side jobs as campaign aides — in some cases nearly doubling their base salaries with the moonlighting gigs.
Some Senate staffers padded their government income with as much as $50,000 working
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