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Post-Thanksgiving Fiscal CliffhangersMissouri and Virginia. The ads target Michael Bennet and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Jim Webb and Mark Warner (D-Va.). All five are considered moderates. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/10oHJeY THE BUZZ: with ABC's
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Five Post-Thanksgiving Fiscal Cliffhangers (The Note)
Missouri and Virginia. The ads target Michael Bennet and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Jim Webb and Mark Warner (D-Va.). All five are considered moderates. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/10oHJeY THE BUZZ: with ABC's
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Let the Liberal Pressure Begin: Union Ads Tell Dems Not to Cave on Cuts
Missouri and Virginia. The ads target Michael Bennet and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Jim Webb and Mark Warner (D-Va.). All five are considered moderates. The unions are targeting four House members in three more
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GOP Asks: What Went Wrong? (The Note)
Claire McCaskill from Missouri, Bob Casey from Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown from Ohio, Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island, Jim Webb from Virginia. Democrats held on Tuesday night to every one of those seats they flipped back in 2006. Only Webb left the
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Jon Tester Wins Reelection in MontanaClaire McCaskill from Missouri, Bob Casey from Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown from Ohio, Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island, Jim Webb from Virginia. Democrats held on Tuesday night to every one of those seats they flipped back in 2006. Only Webb left the
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Democrat Tim Kaine Wins Virginia Senate Raceaddition to the $17.4 million raised by Kaine and the $12.5 million raised by Allen. The winner replaces retiring Democrat Jim Webb , who successfully unseated Allen in the 2006 election after one term. Several polls conducted in the past week showed the
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'Horses and Bayonets' Become Campaign Fodder in Battleground Virginiacomments could now play a role in determining whether Democrats are able to hold on to the open Senate seat being vacated by Jim Webb and whether Obama can once again pull out a win in the battleground state. Within hours of the debate, Allen's campaign
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Report Grades Lawmakers on Voting Records Based on 'Inequality'
Ben Nelson, D-Neb. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. Jon Tester, D-Mont. Jim Webb , D-Va. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. John Boozman, R-Ark. Richard Burr, R-N.C. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. Michael Enzi
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Past Democratic National Convention Darlings: Where Are They Now?the highest office. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008, Warner will become the senior senator for Virginia after Sen . Jim Webb retires next year. Al and Tipper Gore category: The Lovers It's not then-presidential nominee Al Gore's speech
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Tim Kaine campaigns with Barack Obama in Virginia
Senate campaigns in the country against former Republican Sen. George Allen in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen . Jim Webb . Political strategists say the race, occurring in a crucial swing state, is the downballot contest that will be
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Virginia: The Battleground of Battlegrounds for President and Senate
George Allen and Democrat Tim Kaine, neck-in-neck as they tee off for the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Sen . Jim Webb . "It will be a coattail race," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
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Republicans fight to reclaim the Senate majority: 2012 races to watch
Virginia Senate race. Each party recruited a star candidate for this open seat (currently held by moderate Democratic Sen . Jim Webb ): Former Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine and former Republican Sen. George Allen, who also served as governor. Virginia
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Gridlock Ahead: Lugar's Loss Signals More Partisanship in Senate
short term," Snowe said. It is not only Republican moderates who are becoming extinct on Capitol Hill. Democratic Sens. Jim Webb of Virginia and Kent Conrad of North Dakota are retiring this year, too. Other moderates who have decided to fight for re-election
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Nothing In Moderation (The Note)re-election, citing polarization in Washington. Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a Democratic fiscal centrist, and Jim Webb of Virginia, a moderate Democrat, are retiring. Two other moderate Democrats, Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and
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Senate Rejects Obama Call To Strip Oil Company Tax Breakslegislation. They includeded Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Jim Webb , D-Va. Voting with the Democrats was Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Me. President Obama had argued the tax breaks were more
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Senate Narrowly Rejects the Keystone Oil Pipeline Amendment
D-WV., Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Sen . Jim Webb , D-Virg. Not a single Republican voted against the measure. Sen. Kirk, R-Ill., and Sen. Thune, R-SD
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With Bob Kerrey Declining to Run, Democrats Face Tough Senate Map
Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Nelson, and Jim Webb of Virginia. Republicans, by contrast, have only one vulnerable seat left open, vacated by retiring Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl
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No Ordinary Rival: Piling on Ron Paul (The Note)in the increasingly conservative state. He joins several other Democrats to retire from the Senate, including Virginia's Jim Webb and North Dakota's Kent Conrad." http://wapo.st/uLwCOd NOTED: ABC'S SENATE RETIREMENT CRYSTAL BALL. Our Capitol
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Politics and Prose: Top 7 Politicians Moonlighting as Fiction Writers
former president that we know of. But then, Newt Gingrich could be next. Bill Clark/Roll Call 3. Jim Webb - 'Lost Soldiers' Sen . Jim Webb , D-Va., has written six works of fiction, in addition to his two nonfiction books. Many of the
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GOP Likely to Gain Control of Virginia State Legislature
W. Bush in the general election. In 2005 Democrat Tim Kaine was elected Governor, and in 2006 Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator George Allen. The trend continued in 2007 when the Democrats took control of Virginia
