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Jackson Clarion Ledger
January 26, 2018
Some lawmakers want to put a stop to or limit politicians using public dollars to advertise themselves as they put out "public service" ads, especially around re-election time. Senate Accountability Chairman John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, with at least eight other senators signing on, has authored a bill that wouldÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 23, 2018
The Washington Examiner asked that question to about a dozen conservative operatives, campaign hands, political scientists, and commentary writers as both ... Ten Democratic senators are running for re-election in 10 states Trump carried, including several the president won by double-digit margins.
cleveland.com
January 18, 2018
That's the "Trump agenda" hypocrites on the religious right embrace on a daily basis. If Gibbons somehow wins the primary and runs as a Trump sycophant in the general election, the result won't be pretty. Brown was first elected in 2006, thrashing two-term incumbent Mike DeWine -- whose Senate recordÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Public Radio News
January 17, 2018
Franklin said this will be the first election since 2006 in a mid-term when national forces have been working against Wisconsin Republicans, and he floated the prospect that other legislative seats could see a 20-point swing toward Democrats this November. "That really would threaten Republican-heldÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 13, 2018
John V. Tunney was a Democratic senator from California whose successful campaign became the basis for the 1972 Robert Redford film “The Candidate ... Edgar Ray Killen was a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers.
Anniston Star
January 7, 2018
The Democrats face a difficult Senate map next year, as they're defending 25 seats while the Republicans have only eight up for re-election, including Roger Wicker's presumably safe Republican seat in Mississippi. Nine of the seats Democrats are defending are in states won by Trump, and three are in theÃÂ ...
CNN
January 4, 2018
Yancey did not attend the drawing. He'd previously resisted Simonds' requests to make the lot draw the final word in a saga that has dragged on since Democrats flipped 15 seats, nearly taking control of the previously Republican-dominated House of Delegates in November's election. "This race could notÃÂ ...
Politico
January 2, 2018
As the midterm election year gets underway, here are 10 candidates you should be watching in 2018 races for House, Senate and governor, in alphabetical order: ... A moderate former businessman, Bredesen was once popular enough statewide to win every single county in his 2006 reelection campaign.
Roll Call
December 19, 2017
When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race last week, Jones became the first Democrat to be elected statewide there since 2006. When he is sworn into the Senate a few weeks from now, he will notice he's not like the others, since he and Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida will be the onlyÃÂ ...
VICE News
December 17, 2017
President Trump ignored a wave of backlash about his administration's treatment of black Americans and visited the opening of a Mississippi civil rights museum anyway. ... That would be the only high spot for Trump that day as the Alabama Senate election concluded in a win for Democrat Doug Jones.
Courthouse News Service
December 13, 2017
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday named Smith to replace Al Franken in the U.S. Senate. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, File). Smith, a Democrat like Dayton and Franken who is the governor's confidant and trusted former chief of staff, will campaign to keep the seat in the 2018 election.
TucsonSentinel.com
December 13, 2017
Doug Ducey to take McCain's seat and then have to stand for election at the soonest possible date. The good news for her would be that McSally could ascend to the Senate without facing a primary against "Chemtrail" Kelli Ward or a general election race against Sinema. But that seat may also be putÃÂ ...
Pew Research Center
December 13, 2017
Doug Jones' narrow victory in Tuesday's special U.S. Senate election in Alabama did more than make him the first Democrat to win a Senate seat from that ... Jones, a former federal prosecutor, defeated Republican Roy Moore 49.9% to 48.4% in a race that saw far higher turnout than had been predicted.
Governing
December 31, 1999
Election results from November suggest they will have a big year. But with near .... One of the known unknowns heading into campaign season is redistricting. In October, the ... Democrats haven't lost a statewide race in Minnesota since 2006, thanks to strong support in the Twin Cities area around Minneapolis and St. Paul.
New York Times
December 3, 2017
In sum, Ms. Stickney has concluded that Mr. Moore, the Republican nominee for United States Senate here, will not get her vote. But she will not be voting for his Democratic opponent in the Senate election on Dec. 12, either. “Doug Jones has a good reputation for being a good man,” Ms. Stickney, 63, said.
New York Magazine
December 1, 2017
In part the product of two exceptionally good years for Senate Democrats in 2006 (when they gained five net seats) and 2012 (when they gained two more), ... Thanks to a potential GOP calamity in a special Senate election in Alabama on December 12, Democrats actually have a decent chance of making ...
Voice of America
November 29, 2017
Gregg Harper (R-Mississippi) said the hearing will consider “ways to create a respectful reporting and settlement process” and said he expected legislation by early 2018. Comstock, also on that panel, said members are discussing whether federal funds should be spent to settle harassment suits and if ...
St. Louis Public Radio
November 20, 2017
Like most of the Republican caucus, Shimkus voted in a favor of a major overhaul of the federal tax code earlier this month. Whether it actually makes it to President Donald Trump's desk remains to be seen, as some Republican senators have expressed misgivings about some of the provisions. The House ...
History News Network (HNN)
November 20, 2017
Along with 134 campaign aides he was indicted for breeches of state and federal election law. Found guilty in March 1920, his conviction was narrowly overturned by the Supreme Court in May 1921. In January 1922 the Senate voted 46-41 against his expulsion, but when the 1922 midterms shifted the ...
Education Week (blog)
November 18, 2017
In recent weeks, DeVos' younger brother, has reportedly shown interest in running for the Wyoming U.S. Senate seat in 2018 that's currently held by GOP Sen ... which declined to comment, and to DeVos' personal representatives about whether she would or could donate to Erik Prince's campaign if he ran, ...
Chicago Tribune
November 18, 2017
Flanked by a huge sign for Moore's Senate campaign, one supporter railed against the "LGBT mafia" and "homosexualist gay terrorism. ... decades ago, Moore's hardline stance on gay rights and other LGBT issues has become little more than an afterthought for many voters as Election Day approaches.
The Denver Post
November 16, 2017
But since the election, White's star has soared. ... put together an evangelical council for Trump during the campaign, ... Now 51, she was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Donald and Janelle Furr. .... She invited him to appear on her show in 2006. ... Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the Senate Finance ...
Crain's New York Business
November 15, 2017
... the company's first New York project since Trump SoHo started rising in 2006. ... a Scion as well as three budget-priced American Idea hotels in Mississippi. ... 80% of voters supported Hillary Clinton in last year's presidential election. ... called to appear before Senate investigators about the Russia matter.
Pensacola News Journal
November 15, 2017
With the 2018 general election a year away, state candidates and ... White had $1.73 million on hand in his campaign account to begin ... Group, a group of dealerships in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. ... Tom Lee, a former Senate president who ran unsuccessfully for state chief financial officer in 2006.
The Nation.
November 7, 2017
In Mississippi, of all places, Republican Gil Carmichael put up a formidable ... Carmichael ran a pro-business campaign centered around the idea that ... to racist views, while Democrats are increasingly liberal on issues of race. ... Jim Webb narrowly won a Senate election in Virginia while claiming that the ...
The Boston Globe
November 6, 2017
Ask US Senator Chris Murphy about national ambitions, and the Connecticut ... His party should not have a close race for Virginia's governorship — but it does. ... The party built up large congressional majorities in 2006 and 2008 by ... elections in Louisiana and Mississippi — even though they were on the ...
The New Yorker
November 6, 2017
At forty years old, Cotton is the youngest member of the Senate, and he ... the places that made a difference in that election, like Michigan and Wisconsin, ... urged a prompt resolution of the investigation into the Trump campaign, .... The base had Internet access, and one day in the summer of 2006 Cotton ...
The Daily Herald
November 5, 2017
And as the march toward Election Day 2018 begins, the forces that helped ... “There appears to be an almost coordinated campaign unfolding across ... are gerrymandered to Republicans' advantage, and Senate Democrats will be ... turnout patterns from 2006 to 2014 in 26 general election contests and 25Â ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
October 26, 2017
In doing so, the court made clear all Mississippi sheriffs have a duty to get those jailed ..... The defense says Trump revived his campaign comments the day of ..... Bredesen, in announcing his interest in the race, lauded Corker's service despite ... made another run for the Senate in 2006 after Frist announced his retirement.
Observer
October 19, 2017
In 2018, only eight Republican Senate seats are up for election, as compared to 25 Democratic. ... Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. ... Incidentally, 2006 was the last time Bredesen ran for office, and he ... That's right: the last year the Democrats won a statewide race in this ...
Salon
October 18, 2017
The coming election season will be the year of the lunatic voter ... Allen would probably still be the Senator from Virginia, were it not for the misstep he made on August 11 of 2006 in his campaign against insurgent Democrat Jim Webb. ... Despite a recent poll that has the race in a dead heat, Bannon is ...
ProPublica
October 17, 2017
... Mississippi, in 2006 — the first time the DOJ used the Voting Rights Act of ... The OIG report noted that the intern “perceived a broader 'whisper campaign' in the office ... David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election ... A second letter, signed by 18 Democratic senators, also expressed ...
The Chicago Cusader
October 12, 2017
“It's a very humbling experience to know that, if I win this election, I would ... steam, citing the 2006 race where the party lost by nearly 400,000 votes, ... to Methodist ministers in Mississippi who later followed their work to Georgia, ... Abrams was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign in high school, ...
PBS NewsHour
October 8, 2017
Well, you had President Trump expressed displeasure with Senate Leader ... endorsed candidate for Senate in Mississippi and openly threatening several ... the odds of the Democrats winning the general election are very small. ... In 2006, when the Democrats won the Congress back, they put up a lot of ...
AZCentral.com
October 1, 2017
28, 2018, GOP primary election in Arizona, Strange's loss on Tuesday ... "Trump Republicans are angry," said Jennifer Duffy, who analyzes U.S. Senate races for the influential, ... Flake's campaign also declined to comment on the memo. ... the controversial Moore, who in 2006 argued in an op-ed that Rep.
WPSD Local 6
December 31, 1999
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump — who survived explosive allegations himself of sexual assault during last year's campaign — has endorsed Moore and the Republican National Committee is spending money on his behalf. There are a total of 16 Democratic women in the Senate. Among the othersÃÂ ...
Osceola Sun
December 31, 1999
River Falls legislator Shannon Zimmerman, St. Croix County medical examiner Patty Schachtner and campaign-finance reformist John Calabrese announced plans last week to ... 10 appointment of District 10 Senator Sheila Harsdorf as state agriculture secretary, a special election was set for January 16.
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
A statue of Theodore G. Bilbo stands in a first-floor meeting room that is often used by the Legislative Black Caucus. Bilbo, known as a race-baiting demagogue, served two terms as governor — 1916-20 and 1928-32. He was a U.S. senator from 1935 until his death in 1947. The Bilbo statue once stood in ...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
Purdue launched OxyContin with a marketing campaign that attempted to counter .... The Senate held hearings on what Edward Kennedy called “a ... at Purdue with an innovative painkiller called MS Contin, a morphine pill with a ..... In 2006, Purdue settled with Hanly's clients, for seventy-five million dollars.
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
... Donald Trump signs autographs after speaking at a campaign rally at Living ... "The president created his election commission based on the false notion ... In a federal court case after a contentious U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi in 2014, ... addresses, party affiliations and voting history dating to 2006.
AZCentral.com
October 1, 2017
Jeff Flake's 2018 re-election outlook continued to darken after conservative Roy ... Senate races for the influential, nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington, ... Flake's campaign also declined to comment on the memo. ... to rebuke the controversial Moore, who in 2006 argued in an op-ed that Rep.
Daily Kos
September 26, 2017
AL-Sen: We have some last-minute polls of today's GOP Senate runoff in ... or if the only poll that matters in this race really is on Election Day. ... MS-Sen: State Sen. .... last was on the ballot in 2006, when he narrowly won re-election 47-46 ... recognition to be this far ahead this early in the primary campaign.
Rasmussen Reports
September 21, 2017
12 special general election, which was precipitated by President ... As Liz Mair, a Republican campaign operative, said on Twitter: “Alabama Senate race [is] an .... the 2006 and 2010 Republican gubernatorial primaries, the correlation .... In 2014, Mississippi's raucous Republican primary for U.S. SenateÃÂ ...
KBZK Bozeman News
September 20, 2017
The Lott family home in Pascagoula, Mississippi was destroyed by ... of the Democrat Party but switched on the eve of his first campaign in 1972. ... 1972 - Lott is elected to Colmer's seat after he decides not to run for re-election. ... 1994 - Is elected Senate majority whip, the first person to be elected to theÃÂ ...
KTVQ Billings News
September 20, 2017
The Lott family home in Pascagoula, Mississippi was destroyed by ... of the Democrat Party but switched on the eve of his first campaign in 1972. ... 1972 - Lott is elected to Colmer's seat after he decides not to run for re-election. ... 1994 - Is elected Senate majority whip, the first person to be elected to theÃÂ ...
Memphis Daily News
September 17, 2017
He was first elected district attorney general in 2006 after having a private law practice for 11 ... and earned his law degree at the University of Mississippi. ... whether there will be a special election to fill his state Senate seat.
Memphis Daily News
September 14, 2017
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Tipton County prosecutor Mike Dunavant as the new ... He was first elected district attorney general in 2006 after having a private law ... and earned his law degree at the University of Mississippi. ... ballot during a regularly scheduled election in 2018 with the Shelby CountyÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
September 14, 2017
That's the million-dollar question for election wonks. ... a near-perfect game to take control of the Senate (the map heavily favors Republicans), ... South Dakota, Mississippi, rural Georgia and other strongholds of the past andÃÂ ...
Twin Cities Arts Reader
September 4, 2017
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The White House (blog)
September 3, 2017
From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Demers served on the first leadership team of the National Security ... Ms. Fite, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of ... Counsel for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. ..... at the appellate level, along with election law and administrative law.
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