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ELECTION 2010



 Carly Fiorina 
 Launches Calif. 
 Senate Bid 

Ex-HP chief would face Dem incumbent Boxer

Nov 4, 09 10:07 AM CST
(AP) - Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she'll run for the US Senate seat held by California incumbent Barbara Boxer. Fiorina ended months of speculation today with an announcement in an opinion piece she wrote for the Orange County Register. She's scheduled to make a formal announcement later in the day.... More »

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Congress • Carly Fiorina • Barbara Boxer • Senate race • California primary • Congressional incumbents • Election 2010 • Hewlett-Packard • Senate seat

ANALYSIS

GOP Lukewarm on Wrestling CEO's Senate Bid

McMahon has money to burn, but may not be able to unseat Dodd

Oct 5, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Linda McMahon eying him as the ultimate takedown of her takedown-filled career, Sen. Chris Dodd has reason to be nervous. The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment has sharp business acumen, star power—and, perhaps most significantly, $30 million she’s willing to spend to wrest his Connecticut Senate... More »

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primary • wrestling • professional wrestling • WWE • Connecticut • Chris Dodd • Senate race • Linda McMahon

Vitter Rides High on Anti-Obama Sentiment

Hostility toward prez helps La. overlook hooker scandal

Sep 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - You might think an acknowledged client of a Washington prostitute would have a tough time being reelected to the US Senate. But you’d be wrong, the New York Times reports. David Vitter of Louisiana appears to be a strong favorite in his 2010 bid, and he owes it... More »

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Barack Obama • Louisiana • David Vitter • Senate race • Election 2010

Economic Muck Gives GOP Hope for New Blood in 2010

Candidate recruitment up amid bad news for Dems

Jul 9, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - As bad economic reports keep coming, Republicans are seeing candidate recruitment soar, the Hill reports. The party has had “probably its first good couple weeks in four years,” says an analyst, fueled in large part by rising unemployment and sinking stocks. Meanwhile, Democrats have lost top Senate candidate... More »

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Congress • stock market • recruitment • Republican Party • unemployment • Senate race • economy • Lisa Madigan • House race • Election 2010 • Mark Kirk • Kelly Ayotte

(Newser) - Norm Coleman and Al Franken are tussling over $94,000 in legal fees as they head to the Minnesota Supreme Court, Talking Points Memo reports. A county clerk ruled this week that Coleman, after losing a court ruling in the Senate race, owed Franken the money under a loser-pays election... More »

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Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • Minnesota Supreme Court

RFK Son Plans Run for Obama Senate Seat

Chris Kennedy sets sights on seat now
held by Burris

May 21, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another Kennedy is taking a shot at a Senate seat, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Chris Kennedy, the eighth of Robert F. Kennedy's 11 kids, plans to challenge Roland Burris in next year's election for the Illinois seat vacated by President Obama. Insiders say the Democrat decided to run after polls... More »

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Senate • Illinois • Senate race • Robert F. Kennedy • Roland Burris • Chris Kennedy

(Newser) - With his moderate reputation and warm personal style, Charlie Crist’s Senate candidacy ought to be just what the doctor ordered for Republicans. But the party’s right wing is looking the gift horse in the mouth, writes EJ Dionne of the Washington Post. Conservatives have long distrusted Crist,... More »

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conservative • Republican Party • Charlie Crist • Senate race • Marco Rubio

Coleman Takes Vote Battle to Top State Court

Franken picks Senate staffers as rival
refuses to concede

Apr 21, 09 1:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Embattled former senator Norm Coleman is keeping alive the last fight of Election 2008 with an appeal to Minnesota's Supreme Court, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Coleman is arguing that a lower court that awarded Al Franken a 312-vote victory denied constituents their constitutional rights by rejecting some absentee ballots.... More »

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Senate • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • Election 2008

 Franken Picks Up 
 87 Votes in 
 Minn. Race 

Dem gains some 90 votes in rejected-ballot count

Apr 7, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - As election officials in Minnesota tallied up some 350 previously-rejected Senate ballots today, Al Franken stretched out his lead over Norm Coleman by almost 90 votes, making it more than 312, the Star Tribune reports. That’s good news for Franken in Coleman’s lawsuit over the election, which a... More »

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Senate • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • ballots

(Newser) - The AIG bonus scandal has battered Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd’s Senate reelection chances, the Hartford Courant reports. A new poll shows the five-term incumbent trailing GOP challenger Rob Simmons by 16%, a deficit one analyst calls “staggering.” Overall, Dodd’s approval is at 33%. And since AIG,... More »

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Congress • Connecticut • Chris Dodd • Senate race • Quinnipiac University • opinion polls • Election 2010 • Rob Simmons

analysis

 Pawlenty In 
 Squeeze Over 
 Franken's Fate 

Mulling White House run, guv faces heavy choice

Apr 2, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Minnesota Senate race is set for the state Supreme Court, and after that, it’s in GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s hands. If the court puts Democrat Al Franken on top, that puts Pawlenty, eyeing a 2012 presidential run, in a tight spot, writes Manu Raju for Politico: Does... More »

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Senate Democrats • Norm Coleman • Tim Pawlenty • Al Franken • Senate race • election certificate

Coleman Willing to Continue Minn. Election Battle

Former senator 'not ruling out' state, federal appeals

Mar 24, 09 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Norm Coleman is leaving himself the option of taking the case of Minnesota’s disputed Senate election all the way to the US Supreme Court, Politico reports. The Republican is not “at this point” expecting to go that far—after all, that’d be after the Minnesota Supreme Court... More »

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Senate • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • disputed election • Minnesota Supreme Court • absentee ballots

Take It to the Supreme Court: GOP to Coleman

Could Bush v. Gore save the Minnesota Republican?

Mar 17, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - There’s only one thing you need to know about the Minnesota Senate race: It will never end. Norm Coleman, waiting on a state court to rule on his challenge to Al Franken’s 225-vote lead, is being urged by top Republicans to take his case all the way to... More »

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Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • US Supreme Court • Bush vs. Gore

Bunning Is the GOP's Burris

Despite electoral peril and party pressure, gaffe-prone Kentucky senator won't retire

Mar 6, 09 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Senator Jim Bunning, a former Hall of Fame pitcher, may have absorbed too much “quitters never win” talk while still an athlete: The New York Times reports that the erratic Kentuckian won’t go away, despite his Republican colleagues’ best efforts. Bunning barely held his seat in 2004 after... More »

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Senate • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Kentucky • Senate Republicans • John Cornyn • Senate race • Jim Bunning • Election 2010 • National Republican Senatorial Committee • Bill Maher Grid

 Franken 
 Moves to 
 Dismiss 
 Coleman 
 Lawsuit 

Coleman hasn't met his burden of proof, he says

Mar 5, 09 11:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Al Franken asked judges today to dismiss a lawsuit that has bogged down Minnesota’s US Senate vote recount, saying Republican opponent Norm Coleman didn’t prove his claim that 2000 absentee ballots were improperly rejected. Since resting their case, Coleman’s lawyers have focused on using Franken’s witnesses... More »

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court • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • ballots • Election 2008

 Coleman Team: 
 'Set Aside' This 
 Election 

GOP defense rests most of case; now it's Franken's turn

Mar 3, 09 8:35 AM CST
(Newser) - A lawyer for Norm Coleman suggested the election should be "set aside" in a letter to the court reviewing Minnesota’s US Senate election results, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. “Some courts have held that when the number of illegal votes exceeds the margin between the candidates—and it... More »

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court • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • ballots • Election 2008

 Franken Hits 
 DC; Coleman 
 Does, Too 

Franken prepares, Coleman raises money, as endless election contest drags

Feb 11, 09 12:16 PM CST
(Newser) - With the outcome of Minnesota’s US Senate election still tied up in court, Al Franken is in DC preparing for what appears to be his new job. "It's a symbolic step to show Minnesota voters that Franken is doing what he needs to do to be ready to... More »

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Senate • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • Washington, DC • recount

Court Clears Way for GOP Lawsuit in Minn. Recount

Al Franken's request to block Coleman case rejected

Jan 23, 09 2:14 AM CST
(Newser) - A panel of Minnesota judges has rejected Al Franken's request to dismiss Norm Coleman's lawsuit challenging the recount in the state's Senate race, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. A trial that may last for weeks is set to start Monday to weigh Coleman's claims of widespread irregularities in the recount... More »

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Senate • lawsuit • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • recount

ANALYSIS

Strong Candidates Give GOP Hope for Open Senate Seats

No dearth of Republican recruits for 2010 races in Fla., Mo., Ohio

Jan 14, 09 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Don’t let the stories about how grim 2010 looks for the Senate Republicans fool you. The spate of retirements in swing states is no boon, to be sure, but, Politico reports, the GOP will have no trouble coming up with good candidates in Florida, Ohio, and Missouri. A state-by-state... More »

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Florida • Ohio • Rob Portman • Senate Republicans • Missouri • Jim Talent • Mel Martinez • George Voinovich • Senate race • Roy Blunt • US Senate • Election 2010 • Marco Rubio • Kit Bond • Sarah Steelman

Franken and Coleman Still Jousting on Absentees

If the two can't compromise, Senate may just seat Franken

Dec 30, 08 1:44 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s not clear what the Minnesota Supreme Court was thinking when it made the outcome of the Senate race contingent on the two campaigns working out a deal on disputed absentee ballots. Not surprisingly, the Al Franken and Norm Coleman camps, currently separated by 46 votes, are still far... More »

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Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Senate race • absentee balloting • recount • ballot challenges

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