Sep
15
2010
North Carolina GOP Sen. Richard Burr, despite past polls that have shown him with sagging job approval numbers, is leading Democrat Elaine Marshall by 58 percent to 34 percent among likely voters, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Sept. 10-13 for WRAL-TV in Raleigh. Six percent support Libertarian Michael Beitler and 2 percent are undecided. [...]
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Sep
11
2010
In the latest pulse-taking on Connecticut’s Senate race, Democrat Richard Blumenthal is maintaining his lead over Republican Linda McMahon as the election season gets underway in earnest, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Sept. 9. Blumenthal, the state’s attorney general, leads McMahon, former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, by 53 percent to 44 percent [...]
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Sep
8
2010
CHICAGO — Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday announced that he would not seek another term when he is up for re-election next year. Daley, 68, first elected mayor in 1989, had been expected to hold off on deciding whether to run again until after the November elections. In City Hall, the bombshell came in a [...]
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Sep
8
2010
CHICAGO — Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday announced that he would not seek another term when he is up for re-election next year. Daley, 68, first elected mayor in 1989, had been expected to hold off on deciding whether to run again until after the November elections. In City Hall, the bombshell came in a [...]
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Sep
1
2010
Republican Sen. Richard Burr leads Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall by 43 percent to 38 percent, with 6 percent for Libertarian Michael Beitler and 13 percent undecided, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 27-29. The margin of error is 3.6 points. That’s a slightly bigger lead than PPP’s early August poll that had [...]
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Aug
12
2010
I suspect the campaign staff of Richard Blumenthal, running to replace reluctantly retiring Christopher Dodd as U.S. senator from Connecticut, has already studied every frame of available video featuring Linda McMahon, who will be his opponent in this fall’s election. McMahon is a political novice but is also the matriarch of the family that owns [...]
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