Democrats have been here before — confronting a numbers game that undercuts their bid to keep a Senate majority. They confounded such odds in 2012, but by necessity their sigh of relief was brief. The Democrats face a similar scenario in the 2014 midterms, and later...
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Ashley Judd, center, attends the final day of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 6, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2014 Senate Primer: Why Democrats Have to Worry
Sen.-elect Angus King, I-Maine, center, the former governor of Maine, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 13, 2012. Photograph by Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
King of the Caucus: Democratic
Senator-elect Angus King of Maine, elected as an independent, says he will caucus with the Democrats. That will give the Senate’s Democrats a 55-45 edge over Republicans when they convene a new session of Congress in January. King, announcing his...
Read more »Washington Daybook: The Art of Lobbying
On April 5, Aug. 1, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner hosted economists and what his office termed “thought leaders” for glittering dinners at the Treasury Department. Amid some of the department’s more than 5,000 pieces of art, John Paulson,...
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Independent Senator-elect Angus King from Maine. Photograph by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
King’s Caucus Call: Tomorrow
Senator-elect Angus King of Maine says probably will decide which party to caucus with in time to vote in tomorrow’s congressional leadership elections. “I will probably have some comment for you some time tomorrow,” King, an independent who beat a...
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Maine independent Senate candidate Angus King speaks at a news conference in Brunswick, Maine.
Angus King’s Recipe for Congress: No Budget, No Salary
Angus King thinks the U.S. Senate has no concept of time. In his newest Senate campaign commercial, the independent ex-governor of Maine holds up a clock that reads 8:00, telling viewers that the half of the Senate would read it...
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Maine independent Senate candidate Angus King speaks at a news conference in Brunswick, Maine.
Democrats Invest in Maine, Independent King Backing Obama
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has decided to spend $410,000 on a television ad campaign against Republican candidate Charlie Summers in Maine. The ads are scheduled to run Oct. 2-12. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has already funded ads in...
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