U.S. Senate
Changing Tides? GOP Eyes Rare Majority Control of Upper Midwest Senate Delegation
After November, Democrats in the five-state Upper Midwest region could control less than half of the 10 U.S. Senate seats for only the 4th time in 50 Years.
Read MoreThompson Wins Most Competitive Wisconsin GOP US Senate Primary Since 1957
The former governor’s 3.1-point win over Eric Hovde is the sixth closest in party history out of 37 contests.
Read MoreTodd Akin Seeks to Complete the Republican Hat Trick
Including GOPers Jim Talent (2002) and Roy Blunt (2010), just 5 Missouri U.S. House members have been elected to the Senate since 1914; nearly three times as many have failed.
Read MoreMissouri GOP US Senate Barnburner Poised for Closest Primary Finish in 56 Years
Only three of the 35 Republican primaries for the U.S. Senate have been decided by less than 10 points in state history with the average margin of victory at more than 50 points.
Read MoreTexas GOP Senate Runoff Has 2nd Lowest Decline in Turnout from Primary Since 1950
Only the 1972 Democratic runoff between former Senator Ralph Yarborough and Barefoot Sanders had a smaller drop in turnout of the 11 such U.S. Senate runoffs conducted since 1950
Read MoreTed Cruz: Time Was on His Side
The nine week gap between the primary and runoff elections is the longest for any U.S. Senate run-off in Texas history.
Read MoreWill the 113th Congress Have a Record Number of Female Senators?
Two are retiring and at least one incumbent is vulnerable, but several strong female candidates may help offset these losses for a record of 19+ women in the U.S. Senate in January 2013.
Read MoreIs Being Named to The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People List a Blessing or a Curse?
Nearly one-third of the members of Congress who made the list prior to the last election cycle eventually lost their seat, lost a race for higher office, retired, or resigned in scandal.
Read MoreDefense of Abedin, McCain Slow from Senate Colleagues after Bachmann Rebuke
As of mid-day Thursday, no other U.S. Senator has issued a press release defending Huma Abedin after the senior senator from Arizona’s impassioned remarks in the chamber Wednesday.
Read MoreEric Hovde: Is Another Political Outsider Headed to the US Senate from Wisconsin?
Hovde, surging in the GOP primary polls, would be just the third political novice elected to the U.S. Senate from the Badger State.
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