Anti-incumbent fervor didn’t spread to Massachusetts Tuesday, where U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch survived an attack from the left to defeat outsider Mac D’Alessandro in the Democratic primary. Lynch, a four-term congressman from South Boston, won the race in the Bay State’s 9th District, 66 to 34 percent, The Associated Press said. D’Alessandro, political director for [...]
New York Congressman Charlie Rangel survived his toughest battle since his days as a foot soldier in the Korean War when he overcame ethics charges to win the Democratic primary for a 21st term in Congress. The veteran Harlem lawmaker’s triumph came as Carl Paladino, a political novice with Tea Party support, upset the Republican [...]
In one of the country’s tightest and most-anticipated Republican Senate primaries, New Hampshire former attorney general Kelly Ayotte — the early favorite in the race — was locked in a near dead-heat with conservative lawyer Ovide Lamontagne. With 43 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, the New York Times had Ayotte in the lead, with [...]
The big primaries to watch Tuesday night are on the Republican side, which has been featuring more Tea Party vs. the Establishment battles than Democrats, who are presumably the people the movement most wants to beat on Election Day. Here’s a round-up of the latest Poll Watch dispatches on those races: Kelly Ayotte Tries to [...]
When she set out to topple a popular nine-term Congressional incumbent, Reshma Saujani (pictured) reveled in her background in the world of high finance, emerging as a national voice for an industry that felt besieged, blamed and battered after the banking collapse. “I’m running on my Wall Street record, not from it,” she said in [...]
Former health care executive Rick Scott paid a price for his free-spending, no-holds-barred victory in Florida’s gubernatorial primary as he starts out the general election campaign with high personal negatives and running behind Democrat Alex Sink, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 21-22. Sink, the state’s chief financial officer, leads Scott by [...]
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