02:01 PM CDT on Sunday, October 12, 2008 Chad Bower / Eyewitness News BATON ROUGE, La. -- The two major contenders for Louisiana's Senate race face off in their second debate of the campaign season, only the stakes are higher:...
USA TODAY and ABC News are coordinating reports from every state in the 50 days leading up to the presidential election Nov. 4. They're a sizable bloc of registered Louisiana voters — 643,000, at last count — from all walks of...
Mike Hasten • mhasten@gannett.com • October 12, 2008 BATON ROUGE - Candidates for U.S. Senate and their political parties are spending big bucks trying to sway Louisiana voters and their ads try to paint ugly pictures of the...
Republicans have started sounding the alarm about the presidential race now that John McCain is trailing Barack Obama by anywhere from two to 11 percentage points. For the last two years, your humble servant has been saying to...
WASHINGTON -- With the in-state political landscape unusually quiet this fall, Sen. Blanche Lincoln is campaigning for two out-of-state Democratic candidates. But she is the only Arkansas lawmaker hitting the road to help.
THE PROSPECT OF 60.... Periodically over the last few months, the notion that Democrats could go +9 for the cycle and claim a 60-seat majority in the Senate has popped up. The exuberance seems to die down soon after, when...
Article: Moller spent much of the Gubernatorial election writing stories which read like Jindal campaign fliers and is now apparently doing the same thing for Mary Landrieu. Kennedy flip-flops on bill for farmersby Jan Moller,...
DSCC Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) came out swinging Wednesday against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saying the business lobby was no longer nonpartisan and "has turned into a wing" of the GOP. In a press conference at...
By Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane Thursday, October 9, 2008; Page A19 Congressional Democrats and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are back in that comfortable position they've long enjoyed -- mortal enemies. After working together...
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., announced that Louisiana has been declared an agricultural disaster by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). On Sept. 10, Sen. Landrieu and the rest of the Loui