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Senate races: Akin, Mourdock lose
Democrats will retain their control of the Senate after winning several closely contested races on Tuesday.
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Democrats expand Senate grip but fail to win House
Democrats strengthened their hold on the Senate but failed Tuesday to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives they lost two years ago. President Barack Obama, in his freshly authorized second term, will face the same divided Congress in…
Democrats keep control of Senate
Democrats will retain their control of the Senate after winning several closely contested races on Tuesday.
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Ex-WWE exec L. McMahon loses race for Senate
Big-spending former wrestling executive Linda McMahon was smacked down again in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, losing on a night when sports and politics met in the same arena.
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GOP pursues last chances to upend Senate Dems
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate — Pennsylvania topped their list — as Democrats remained cautiously optimistic that they’d retain their narrow majority after Tuesday’s suspense-filled elections.
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GOP’s Senate takeover hopes dim
Even before a second Republican Senate candidate tripped over incendiary comments about rape, GOP leaders in Washington knew that their once promising chances of winning control of the Senate had diminished.
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Mourdock Aims for Indiana Senate Seat
By Nicole Michels Oct 25th 2012
Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a series featuring the race for the Indiana seat in the United States Senate.
Republican State Treasurer Richard Mourdock promised to bring a sense of fiscal…
Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.…
GOP Senate takeover looking tougher
It gets second billing to the race for the White House, but the battle for control of the Senate is just as important and fresh polling suggests Democrats in some crucial contests are on the rise.
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Midnight votes planned in Senate
Senators are scheduled to begin voting on a series of measures at midnight Friday before leaving Washington to return home and campaign for re-election.
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Akin vows to remain Senate candidate
Rep. Todd Akin announced Friday he will continue his run in Missouri for the U.S. Senate, despite having ignited a political firestorm with a comment that pregnancy resulting from “legitimate rape” was “really rare.”
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Could Akin race tip Senate balance?
If there is any silver lining for Republicans from the Todd Akin imbroglio, no one seems to have found it yet.
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Mo. lawmaker still defiant, won’t quit Senate race
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rep. Todd Akin defied the nation’s top Republicans and refused to abandon a Senate bid that has been hobbled by fallout over his comments that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape.”…
Romney calls on Akin to quit Senate race
Presidential candidate says Todd Akin should abandon contest for Missouri after the congressman’s comments about rape.
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Akin rebuffs Romney, Republican, calls to quit Senate race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insisted on Tuesday he would not leave the Missouri Senate race, despite pressure from fellow Republicans and talk of who might replace him on the…
Mo. congressman renews vow to stay in Senate race
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A defiant Rep. Todd Akin dismissed pleas from top Republicans to abandon his besieged Senate campaign Tuesday, saying party leaders including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney were overreacting to his comments that women’s bodies can prevent…
Congressman Akin refuses to quit Senate race
Todd Akin resists pressure from fellow Republicans to drop out of the Missouri Senate race over rape comments.
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Akin resists calls to end Senate campaign
Republican candidate records an advertisement apologising for using the ‘wrong words in the wrong way’ as appeals for him to end his race mount
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Missouri congressman fights to save GOP Senate bid
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate campaign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding was cut off in outrage over the Missouri congressman’s…
Ind. GOP Senate candidate stands by rape comment
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Wednesday that he is standing by his statement that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape “that’s something God intended.” He says some people have twisted the meaning of…