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Republican nominee and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul has opened a 15-point lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s Senate race, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 1 for The Louisville Courier-Journal and WHAS11. Paul leads Conway, the state’s attorney general, by 55 percent to 40 percent, with 5 percent undecided. Paul is [...]

Democratic state Treasurer Frank Caprio has moved into the lead over Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee for the first time in the Rhode Island governor’s race, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 17. The seat is currently held by Republican Donald Carcieri who can’t run again because of term limits. Caprio leads Chafee by 38 [...]

What recovery? Unemployment remains high and manufacturing is moving slowly, two signs that the U.S. economy will see more dark days ahead, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said the economy faces a tough recovery from the recession, although the office did predict three percent economic growth this year, Reuters [...]

Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln narrowly escaped defeat in a primary and then again in a runoff, but there’s nothing narrow about the margin that four-term Republican Rep. John Boozman has over Lincoln in her bid for re-election, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 18. Boozman, who won his primary outright, leads Lincoln [...]

The filings are out and it looks like the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has set his sights on four energy companies, two of which are heavily involved in exploration and production: Anadarko Petroleum and Chesapeake Energy. Mr. Icahn’s stakes in these companies could mean that he is thinking about a major shakeup in their [...]

The volatility of the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Florida was underlined by a new poll that shows former health care executive Rick Scott running ahead of state Attorney General Bill McCollum by 10 points — a survey in sharp contrast to another poll this week that had McCollum rebounding. Scott leads McCollum [...]