National Elections
Neb. GOP nominates Fischer to face ex-Sen. Kerrey
Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, setting the stage for a high-stakes November election against former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey.
National Elections
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
New generation challenges some blacks in Congress
For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Past lobbying becomes issue in Arizona Senate race
Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Walker says Republicans should focus on his race
Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other Republicans survive June 5 recall elections, even as an intraparty fight over endorsing GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate election threatens to be...
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Video: Walker explains divide, conquer strategy
Newly released documentary film footage shows embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker shortly after his election describing a "divide and conquer" strategy for taking on unions by first going after public employees' collective bargaining rights.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Papers shed light on Mass. Senate hopeful's record
Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney
President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security
Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Milwaukee mayor will try again to beat Walker
The Democrats' hope for ousting Scott Walker is a low-key, well-liked Milwaukee mayor whose last brush with fame came when he interceded in a fight outside the Wisconsin State Fair and got badly beaten with a tire iron.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Obama praises Lugar's career after primary loss
President Barack Obama is expressing deep appreciation for what he calls Indiana Republican Richard Lugar's distinguished service in the Senate.
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Lugar loses Ind. GOP primary to tea party rival
U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar has lost to a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana's Republican primary, ending a storied political career that spanned nearly four decades.
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