Ensign adds Reid race to reasons for staying on

Sen. John Ensign said Monday that heeding calls for his resignation would make it harder for Republicans to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid next year.

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Fiorina's record at HP will be key to Senate race

Carly Fiorina's claim to fame — her five-and-a-half years as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. — could also be her greatest vulnerability in next year's U.S. Senate race in California.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell skirts Bunning endorsement

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell still won't say if he will endorse his fellow Republican senator from Kentucky.

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Gov. Crist to run for US Senate seat in Florida

Popular GOP Gov. Charlie Crist is passing on an easy re-election bid and instead will run for U.S. Senate, a decision that excites Washington Republicans who desperately want to avoid further losses in 2010.

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Money may force Bunning to rethink re-election bid

Embattled GOP Sen. Jim Bunning said Tuesday he'll reconsider running for a third term if he doesn't meet his fundraising goals.

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Senate candidates making final pitches to voters

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell told hundreds of supporters Saturday night that Kentucky would take a "massive step backward" if he is ousted from the Senate, as the incumbent touted his seniority and leadership status in making his case for a fifth term.

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In NJ Senate race, incumbent faces ex-congressman

New Jersey's U.S. Senate race gives voters a choice between two Washington veterans — one who resurrected his political career and another who hopes to.

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Calls mount for Stevens to resign, but when?

A growing chorus of Republicans on Tuesday called for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens to resign from a seat he's held for four decades after his conviction on seven felony charges.

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Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak

As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast.

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Toppling GOP Leader a Long Shot for Dems

For someone accustomed to being a political aggressor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has a bull's eye on his back at the beginning of what may be his toughest re-election campaign in years.

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Facing perilous conservative revolts, Gov. Charlie Crist has been quietly reaching out to Republican county leaders throughout the state to gauge his political support, defend his policies -- and to turn on the charm.

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One expected Democratic candidate for Kentucky's 2010 U.S. Senate race is calling on another expected Democratic candidate in the race "to apologize for profanities."

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Federal lobbyists bundled more money for Charlie Crist's Senate campaign between April and July than for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership committee.

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, now a U.S. Senate candidate, said he would have made the "pragmatic" decision to vote for the federal stimulus bill, differentiating himself from fellow candidate Marco Rubio and the man he is trying to replace -- Mel Martinez.

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ndrew Rice is an unlikely candidate to represent Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate. A 35-year-old Democrat elected to the state senate in 2006, he favors abortion rights and civil unions, despite running in one of the most socially conservative states in the country.

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Caroline Kennedy, you know, still doesn't want to tell the public why she suddenly dropped her candidacy to succeed Hillary Clinton in the Senate. But, contrary to speculation in the media, it wasn't because of her children.

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Minnesotans won't know who their second U.S. senator will be until at least June.

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Minnesotans won't know who their second U.S. senator will be until at least June.

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A new poll of Minnesota voters reveals that, by a 2-1 margin, they want former Senator Norm Coleman to quit contesting last fall's election. Coleman lost the election by more than 300 votes, according to the count after a three-judge panel reviewed the ballots and the recount.

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Summary: During an interview with Norm Coleman, Fox & Friends co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade advanced a slew of misinformation about the Minnesota Senate race.

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The state's five-person Canvassing Board today issued two key rulings, both of which represent significant boosts to Franken.

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Barack Obama has denied ever discussing his Senate seat replacement with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. But that was apparently not true. A November 8th article at the KHQA website reports:

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Senate candidate Al Franken will not appeal a decision by the Minnesota State Canvassing Board, which today rejected the Democrat's request that rejected absentee ballots be included in the race's hotly contested recount.

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Post-Election Musings

There have been some surprises: 1. Those who I expected would vote Democrat displayed extremely conservative leanings and tendencies (I'm referring here to people I know personally, not political figures).

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Franken deftly dodged the question. "Part of an election is holding an incumbent accountable," he said, adding that his campaign has "been running ads about Norm Coleman's record, and so it's a lot of negative, because his record hasn't been very good."

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Bruce Lunsford, Democratic nominee for Ky. Senator, reportedly removed the device from a podium during a debate and had the material recorded on it erased before returning it to the GOP member who owned it.

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In a sign national Democrats are confident about Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Mark Udall's chances on Nov. 4, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will stop its television advertising in Colorado by Tuesday

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Is politics just weird or is it downright schizophrenic? Story by Reporter Joseph Gerth, The Louisville Courier-Journal

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell uses the "Vencor Scandal" against Democratic challenger and Vencor founder Bruce Lunsford, yet McConnell's wife was also had significant ties to Vencor.

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New Al Franken campaign ad for the US Senate tosses the puck at Sen. Norm Coleman. Video clip.

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It seems that the Minnesota Republicans are afraid that Jesse Ventura is considering running for the Senate.

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There's a reason House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is smiling despite a contentious Democratic presidential primary that as if it will never end.

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Al Franken is ahead of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) in an opinion poll.

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A summary of the stunning rise of Barack Obama to the national stage.

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The early returns are in and the dems are looking good.

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