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Elections

Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga. Barrow and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, two top-tier Democratic prospects, recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, decisions that highlighted both divisions within the party and its challenge of finding candidates whose ideologies line up with voters in Republican-leaning states.

Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. 3 hours ago

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ELECTIONS

Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee

Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.
ELECTIONS

Handel jumps into crowded US Senate race in Ga.

Karen Handel, the former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive at the center of last year's public clash with Planned Parenthood, says she'll be running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.
ELECTIONS

Auditor's office declines comment on McKay assertion

OCEAN SPRINGS -- State Auditor Stacey Pickering's office had no comment Wednesday on what Ocean Springs mayor candidate John McKay told the Sun Herald on Tuesday -- that McKay was cleared of being part of an investigation into the state Department of Marine Resources.
ELECTIONS

Family drama adds intrigue to Ill. governor's race

Politics has long been a family business in Illinois, a place where who you know - and who you're related to - matters more than most. But the family drama shaping up around the next governor's race adds a new layer of intrigue in a Capitol already grappling with huge financial problems.
ELECTIONS

Budget surpluses spur tension in some GOP states

Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States face a far greater philosophical dilemma - what to do with all the money when an improving economy suddenly creates a surplus in revenues.
ELECTIONS

Herseth Sandlin rules out run for SD Senate seat

Former South Dakota U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said Monday she will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson.
ELECTIONS

League of Women Voters plans political forum for Ocean Springs candidates

OCEAN SPRINGS -- The nonpartisan Mississippi Gulf Coast League of Women Voters plans a forum for Ocean Springs city government candidates Tuesday at 7 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2016 looms: Paul, Jindal visit early voting states

Republican Sen. Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy set of speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into something more mainstream and, perhaps, viable.
ELECTIONS

Five tight races put drama into election night in South Mississippi

Close political races point out the value of a vote. And in Tuesday's elections, there were some valuable votes in five close races.
GULFPORT

Dombrowski wins Gulfport's Ward 2 by two votes

GULFPORT -- Incumbent Councilman Ricky Dombrowski has won the Ward 2 City Council seat by two votes over challenger David André.

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