Tag Archives: 2012 U.S. Senate Races

The GOP’s Cold Comfort

  Denial is no consolation — it’s time for clear-eyed reassessment. By: Rich Lowry No sooner had the electoral thundercloud arrived last Tuesday than some Republicans began searching it for a silver lining. It is an understandable impulse after a defeat to want to minimize its magnitude and rationalize away its causes. But there are [...]

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Newt Gingrich: 300 electoral votes for Mitt Romney

  By KATIE GLUECK Newt Gingrich is predicting that this election will be a near-landslide victory for Mitt Romney. “I believe the minimum result will be 53-47 Romney, over 300 electoral votes, and the Republicans will pick up the Senate,” the former House speaker said Thursday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta [...]

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Romney Rescues GOP Battle for the Senate

By Jim O’Sullivan The political landscape has dramatically changed in just thirty days. Barack Obama had the momentum. His attacks on Mitt Romney were clearly taking a toll, and the president was also outspending Romney to drive the negative messages home. The assaults suggested that Romney was both unqualified and unfit to be the president, [...]

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John Bruner’s Running for the U.S. Senate, with a sense of humor,too!

[Editor's Commentary....I opened this email today from the John Bruner campaign and I liked the tongue-in-cheek approach they used to point out how ironic it would be for Democrats like Claire McCaskill to actually tell the voters the truth about what they have done, rather than the outrageous "spin" they use to cover their real [...]

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Tea party leader lashes out at Scott Brown

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN Sen. Scott Brown has thrown his tea party supporters “under the bus” with his recent critiques of some Republican budget cut proposals, a movement leader said Friday. Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, on Thursday denounced GOP suggestions to cut social and cultural programs as “irresponsible,” and Judson Phillips, a leader of Tea Party [...]

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Democrats Hope Claire McCaskill Flies Above Plane Flap

By SCOTT WONG & DAVID CATANESE | 3/18/11 4:53 AM EDT Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) hit an unexpected patch of turbulence on her ride to reelection in 2012. In the past week, the Missouri Republican Party filed an ethics complaint against her in the Senate, after POLITICO reported she billed taxpayers for a political trip [...]

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Webb Won’t Seek Re-Election

Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb plans to announce today that he won’t seek reelection, the Senator confirmed Wednesday. Webb appeared likely to face a rematch with former Senator George Allen, whom he beat in a bruising 2006 contest. He had expressed ambivalence about the prospect of another run, and has said he never planned a [...]

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2012 Senate Races

POLITICO SENATE 2012 – “GOP candidates rush to get into Senate races,” by AP’s Philip Elliott: “Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles. Looking to ride what they [...]

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Inaugural Scoop: Steelman Files for Senate

By: David Cantanese POLITICO Former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman is expected to file the official paperwork Wednesday to run for U.S. Senate in 2012, POLITICO has learned. Before filing as a candidate with the Secretary of the Senate this afternoon, Steelman will launch a campaign website this morning that outlines her decision to become [...]

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Here’s a List of Senate Dems Up for Re-Election in 2012

FOR THOSE EARLY BIRDS WHO LIKE TO GET OUT AHEAD OF THE CURVE, HERE’S A LIST OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS UP FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2012   Some pundits say it will take a second take-over of senate seats in 2012 to give a majority in the senate to Republicans. Vulnerabilities will depend on economic and social [...]

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