Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
W.Va. gov. wins Democratic primary for US Senate (AP)
AP – Popular Gov. Joe Manchin won the Democratic nomination Saturday and will face GOP primary winner and wealthy businessman John Raese in the race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Robert C. Byrd.
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W.Va. governor wins Dem primary for US Senate (AP)
AP – Popular Gov. Joe Manchin won the Democratic nomination Saturday and will face GOP primary winner and wealthy businessman John Raese in the race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Robert C. Byrd.
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W.Va. Gov. Manchin wins Dem primary for US Senate (AP)
AP – Popular Gov. Joe Manchin easily won the Democratic nomination Saturday in the race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Robert C. Byrd. A crowded field of 10 Republicans were vying for the chance to take on Manchin in November, with a wealthy businessman and a former U.S. House candidate among the best-known GOP contenders.
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W.Va., La. voters go to polls for Senate primaries (AP)
AP – Fourteen candidates sought a shot at the late Robert C. Byrd’s Senate seat, with popular Gov. Joe Manchin the front-runner on the Democratic side and a wealthy businessman and a former U.S. House candidate the best-known of the GOP contenders in Saturday’s primary.
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Palin a central figure in tight Alaska Senate race (AP)
AP – Sarah Palin has emerged as a key figure in an Alaskan Senate primary race so close that it will now be decided by absentee ballots.
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Meek takes Florida’s Senate Democratic nomination (AP)
AP – Rep. Kendrick Meek cinched Florida’s Senate Democratic nomination by defeating political upstart Jeff Greene on Tuesday, and veteran politician Bill McCollum battled novice Rick Scott in the state’s GOP gubernatorial contest as voters weighed the merits of establishment candidates vs. wealthy outsiders.
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New senators want to change way Senate works (AP)
AP – Those who hold the Senate in low esteem can get a sympathetic ear from some of the chamber’s newer members. These lawmakers also are fed up with the Senate’s ways and would like to change them.
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