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Harvard Political Review
March 15, 2018
A 50-state strategy more closely tailored to local politics could win Democrats crucial seats in their bid to regain control of the House, Senate, gubernatorial offices, and state legislatures. In addition to the national party's focus on local organizing, individual candidates can do a better job of representing theirÃÂ ...
CNN
March 15, 2018
Steve Stivers, the head of House Republicans' campaign arm, went with: "This is a wake-up call. ... In 2006, every Republican -- or at least the vast, vast majority -- understood that the unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq made things ... Earl Pomeroy, a Democrat from North Dakota.
KVUE
March 15, 2018
A loss in a Republican-friendly House district, despite the president's very public support of the GOP candidate, is more evidence that an anti-Trump ... and analysts like Rothenberg agreed that candidates' performance is important — but, three months after Democrats won a Senate seat in ruby redÃÂ ...
The Providence Journal
March 7, 2018
Former Democratic Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown is "exploring the possibility" of running for governor as an independent, he announced Wednesday on a new campaign website. Brown, whose last campaign for public office was an abbreviated U.S. Senate bid in 2006, filed campaign financeÃÂ ...
Uprise RI (blog)
February 27, 2018
Ending months of speculation, progressive activist Sam Bell has announced that he will be running as a Democrat for State Senate District 5 in Providence. ... In 2015, Bell chaired the Stop the Stadium Deal campaign, which helped defeat the PawSox owners' plan to tear down historic McCoy Stadium andÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 16, 2018
Previously, I catalogued five states where Democratic incumbents are considered most vulnerable: Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West .... The younger Casey was elected statewide twice as auditor general and once as treasurer before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006; he beatÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
February 15, 2018
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who has yet to draw a "name" Republican challenger, raised $4.94 million in 2017 and increased her war chest five fold. .... Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-North Dakota, face difficult reelection races in states that gave big majorities to Trump.
OzarksFirst.com
December 31, 1999
In the Axios/Survey Monkey Poll, only two other incumbent Senate Democrats up for reelection fared worse than McCaskill – Joe Manchin of West Virginia (43%-52%) and John Tester of Montana (42%-55%). Both men were polled against a generic Republican as no formidable GOP candidate hasÃÂ ...
Missourinet.com
December 31, 1999
In the Axios/Survey Monkey Poll, only two other incumbent Senate Democrats up for reelection fared worse than McCaskill – Joe Manchin of West Virginia (43%-52%) and John Tester of Montana (42%-55%). Both men were polled against a generic Republican as no formidable GOP candidate hasÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 30, 2018
Susan B. Anthony List on Monday launched websites and digital ad campaigns to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats for voting against the 20-week ban. The messaging targets McCaskill and other Democratic senators, including Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Jon Tester ofÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
January 19, 2018
On cable television, a former aide to Paul Ryan said that Chuck Schumer was playing the exact same role that Ted Cruz did in 2013, when the Texas Republican forced a shutdown in a vanity campaign against Obamacare. Yesterday, Schumer appeared on the Senate floor looking sanguine. He wore aÃÂ ...
Daily Reporter
January 17, 2018
Leah Vukmir, who is running for U.S. Senate, traveled to the district to campaign for him. Schachtner, the St. Croix County medical examiner and a Somerset school board member who appeared in an episode of “Wife Swap” in 2006, didn't appear to want to talk much about what her win could mean forÃÂ ...
CGTN America (blog)
January 17, 2018
A surprising Democratic upset in a conservative Wisconsin Senate district where voters overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump just 14 ... In the past two weeks, high-profile Republicans have passed up Senate races in North Dakota and Minnesota that were thought to be winnable seats.
The Hill
January 16, 2018
depriving Republicans of a strong candidate in an unexpected pickup opportunity on the midterm map. “I am very interested in public service and service for the common good. There are a lot of ways to do that,” Pawlenty said in an interview with Fox Business Network. “But I'll tell you today that running forÃÂ ...
TPM
January 12, 2018
Amidst growing signs of a potentially huge Democratic wave in the 2018 midterm elections, a raft of key Republican would-be candidates are ... Cramer's decision after both President Trump and Senate GOP leaders pushed to run leaves them without a well-known candidate in a state Trump carried byÃÂ ...
STLtoday.com
January 8, 2018
McCaskill raised $2.9 million in the last three months of the year, her campaign spokeswoman, Meira Bernstein, told the Post-Dispatch on Monday. ... highly contested Senate races in 2018 are in states with sparse populations and small and relatively cheap media markets, such as Montana, North Dakota,ÃÂ ...
AZFamily
January 4, 2018
(CNN) -- The most interesting Senate race in 2018 might have nothing to do with whether Republicans or Democrats control the chamber after this year's midterm elections. The decision ... Kelli Ward -- a candidate many Republicans in Washington and Arizona see as a sure-fire general election loser.
Shareblue Media
December 31, 1999
They lost what should have been a completely safe special election in Alabama, after their candidate was credibly accused of being a child molester. Their frontrunner in Ohio unexpectedly dropped out. Their most promising potential candidates declined to enter the race in Minnesota and North Dakota.
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Bob Salera, spokesman for the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, says “North Dakota is trending harder (to the GOP) in every election.” Best of all, he says, Heitkamp “hasn't done enough to separate herself from Washington Democrats.” Finally, the “Big Sky State” — Montana. Trump won it by a bigÃÂ ...
Politico
September 16, 2017
Campaigns ... Senate Democrats are three seats shy of a majority and almost entirely ... and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van ... “And we have good candidates in other states, and we're going to have more. ... wins in states like Indiana, Montana and North Dakota look easy.
Daily Kos
September 15, 2017
Bysiewicz has been exploring a state Senate campaign for several months ... While none of the current Democratic gubernatorial candidates is ... since Democrats in previous campaigns had repeatedly attacked ... that year and voted for Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in 2014 by a 52-48 margin.
RealClearPolitics
September 15, 2017
... to take control of the Senate (the map heavily favors Republicans), the House will ... In 2006, George W. Bush's approval rating was being dragged down by ... Republican presidential candidates and Democratic congressmen. ... to their former glory in places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi,ÃÂ ...
The Columbian
September 7, 2017
Vancouver Energy gives $75K to port candidate Kris Greene ... would haul crude oil from North Dakota to the proposed ocean terminal, donated $500. ... In 2006, the Washington Legislature put campaign contribution limits on ... She received $80,000 from the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.
MyAJC
September 4, 2017
But he will need a few Senate Democrats to go along, and even those in ... United States government over a campaign promise that he cannot deliver ... Republicans have chided Democrats for voting in 2006 to back fencing along the border. ... Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia,ÃÂ ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
September 1, 2017
Senate Democrats are united in opposition against money for the wall that ... over a campaign promise that he cannot deliver on,” said Will Marshall, .... Republicans have chided Democrats for voting in 2006 to back fencing along the border. ... Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia,ÃÂ ...
Rasmussen Reports
August 24, 2017
All of the 33 Senate incumbents up for reelection next year are running ... Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, but otherwise hold everything else, .... Corker's first election in 2006, during the Democrats' last good midterm, ... like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee likely just won't haveÃÂ ...
LifeZette
August 18, 2017
Yet it's the Democrats' Senate prospects that are going south. ... “lean D” to toss-up, and it shifted North Dakota from “likely D” to “lean D.” It did move .... "The GOP's recruiting strong candidates at this point, and the Democrats ... more votes in Missouri than any other candidate on the ballot, including Trump.
Daily Kos
March 22, 2017
More than 26,675 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. ..... By James Magaska Swan: "I have been thinking about this and watching this issue grow way out of proportion, this all-about-garbage fiasco ...
East Grand Forks Exponent
March 22, 2017
The AP reported there was a $10 million annual contract between Manafort and aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska that is believed to have started in June 2006. The business relationship lasted until 2009, the AP said, citing a source. That timeframe wouldÃÂ ...
INFORUM
March 21, 2017
Just last week I signed onto a bill with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, to get ... The amount of dark, undisclosed money in politics has skyrocketed since 2006. By 2014, only 29 ... When I served as North Dakota's attorney general in the 1990s, I began ...
The New Yorker
March 19, 2017
"The reported contact between operatives in the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence officials is exactly the kind of intrigue that our founders sought to prohibit.
Roll Call
March 15, 2017
Democratic lawmakers and liberal interest groups are intensifying their pressure on senators to probe Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's views on campaign finance law during his confirmation hearings next week. "He does not come into this with the ...
In These Times
March 13, 2017
As DNC chair, Perez's primary task is building the DNC's war chest ($372 million in 2016 and $168 million in the 2014 midterms) and dispensing it to national campaigns and state party apparatuses. With that comes the power to dictate strategy ...
New York Times
March 13, 2017
There had been the occasional favor; at Schumer's request, Trump hosted a fund-raiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at Mar-a-Lago in 2008, and Schumer made a cameo on "The Apprentice" in 2006. ... Schumer, who was in line to succeed ...
KRDO
March 10, 2017
2011: An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 81 miles east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami, killing more than 15,000 people and causing a nuclear emergency.
The Boston Globe
March 9, 2017
Put another way: For Democrats to win the Senate, they have to go a perfect 16-0, which includes Democrats winning in North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Missouri, and, yes, Texas. Tom Lopach, who headed up the Senate Democrats' campaign arm in 2016, said ...
Daily Kos
March 8, 2017
More than 26,580 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. .... Stop Fooling California, a public education campaign that focuses on the oil industry in California, released the analysis." ... Meteor Blades ...
Politico
March 7, 2017
2 in waiting faces heat on Russia probe," by Seung Min Kim and Burgess Everett: "Senate Democrats, intent on keeping questions about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia front and center, are turning to their next target: Attorney General Jeff Sessions ...
Jacobin magazine
March 6, 2017
George W. Bush's first campaign marked a significant shift in the state's voting patterns as it switched from reliably voting Democrat to Republican in presidential elections.
INFORUM
March 3, 2017
U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp recently said that she'll do what's best for our state when it comes to President Trump's U.S.
The Advocate
March 2, 2017
Republicans lost 30 House seats in 2006 when President George W. Bush's popularity was sinking, and 26 seats in 1982 after the first two years of Ronald Reagan's presidency when the economy was still sluggish.
Daily Kos
March 1, 2017
More than 26,520 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. .... Or the time the GOP made a massive fuss over a presidential candidate's emails? ... CANDIDATES, STATE AND DC ECO-RELATED POLITICS ...
Politico
February 25, 2017
The Human Rights Council was established in 2006. It replaced the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which had faced severe criticism because countries with poor rights records became members and prevented it from carrying out its mission to the fullest.
WPXI Pittsburgh
February 23, 2017
In 2010, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses after trying to tamper with the phones in Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu's office. He called that episode a "huge misunderstanding" and defendedÃÂ ...
PEOPLE.com
February 22, 2017
Colon is also working with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, lobbying Congress to prevent dangerous individuals from acquiring guns.
The Nation.
February 22, 2017
... is at stake this year. And just as last year's presidential primary pitted Hillary Clinton, the establishment candidate, against Bernie Sanders, a left-leaning insurgent, the two leading candidates in New Jersey's 2017 Democratic primary have ...
WRCB-TV
February 20, 2017
In his current role, McMaster has been studying the way Russia developed and executed its campaigns in Crimea and Ukraine, where it used what some call "hybrid warfare" - part political, part disinformation, part military.
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
February 17, 2017
Jihan Hafiz, an award-winning Egyptian-Samoan journalist who also faces charges, told CPJ that she thought reporting in North Dakota would be "a walk in the park." Hafiz, who has covered conflict in the Middle East and police brutality in Brazil for ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
February 15, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of parents across the country have called on President Donald Trump to embrace Obama-era protections for transgender students that call for letting them use school bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity.
The Guardian
February 13, 2017
Officers in North Dakota and South Dakota have pulled over and searched at least four veterans on their way to the camps at Standing Rock in recent days, charging two of them for medical cannabis.
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