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Republicans are vowing to learn from their mistakes in Senate races in 2010 and 2012. Most of them are convinced that they would have 50 seats, not the 45 this election left them with, had they run better candidates. Senate Republicans say they are therefore going to get more involved in primary campaigns.
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Democratic Representative Tammy Baldwin won Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race over former Governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican, making her the state’s first female senator.
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Years ago, as a novice representative from California, Nancy Pelosi sat quietly at many a caucus meeting while her colleagues discussed how they were going to bring peace to the Middle East and a chicken to every pot.
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Women will occupy a record number of U.S. Senate seats -- one in five -- in January, following victories in yesterday’s balloting.
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At St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Racine, Wisconsin, Gregg Brack contemplates how he’ll show his support in tomorrow’s election for Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee he considers the state’s favorite son.
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Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate by holding on to crucial seats in Virginia, Montana and Missouri, capturing the Indiana seat held by a retiring Republican and ousting a Republican in Massachusetts, where Elizabeth Warren beat incumbent Scott Brown.
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Former Governor Tommy Thompson wound up an arm-waving speech with a series of “God love yous” beneath a fluttering American flag amid whistles and cheers.
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Tommy Thompson, the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin history, dropped to the floor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board room last week and ripped through his morning push-up routine, as a video camera recorded a state political icon exercising in his stocking feet.
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The election-year arithmetic in U.S. Senate races is growing increasingly complicated for Republicans, diminishing the party’s prospects of winning a majority that earlier this year was seen as within its grasp.
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Brian Bilbray, a Republican congressman seeking re-election in San Diego, is borrowing a campaign strategy from President Barack Obama. He’s demanding his opponent’s tax returns.
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