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Time.com – Democrats know they can’t be too confident about the Delaware Senate race, but they insist they aren’t underestimating the Tea Party threat this time

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Delaware: Can Coons Hold Off the Tea Party’s O’Donnell?
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AP – Can this political marriage survive? More than a half dozen tea party-backed candidates have captured Republican Senate nominations, and now the GOP is trying to bring their rebel supporters’ enthusiasm into the fold for November.

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GOP tries to bring tea party enthusiasm into fold
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AP – She has used campaign contributions to help pay the rent, taken more than 20 years to get her bachelor’s degree and equated masturbation with adultery. And she just stunned the GOP establishment by beating a nine-term congressman and two-term governor in Delaware’s U.S. Senate primary election.

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O’Donnell in spotlight after Del. primary victory
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AP – The Republican winner of a nail-biter of a primary election says she’ll stress fiscal responsibility in her campaign to represent New Hampshire in the Senate.

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NH Senate primary winner Ayotte claims GOP mantle
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AP – More Democrats joined Republicans on Wednesday in calling for the preservation of tax breaks for Americans of every income level, bolting this election season from President Barack Obama’s plan to preserve cuts for those who earn less than $200,000 and let taxes for the wealthy rise.

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More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all
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AP – Tea party-supported candidates in New Hampshire and Delaware seized early leads over establishment-backed rivals in Republican senatorial races Tuesday, the finale to a primary season marked by economic recession and political upheaval.

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Tea party Senate favorites lead in NH, Delaware
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AP – Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who conceded the GOP primary to tea-party backed Joe Miller last month, said she’ll decide by Friday whether to mount a write-in candidacy.

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AK senator to decide on write-in bid by Friday
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AP – The oil and gas industry says an Obama administration plan to double fees charged for inspections of offshore operations could cost jobs.

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Oil industry: Nix higher offshore inspection fees
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AP – A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a political fundraiser in Connecticut attended by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon.

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GOP Senate hopeful at Conn. event with bomb threat
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AP – The Senate on Monday opens its first impeachment trial since the 1999 case against former President Bill Clinton when it takes up a host of corruption allegations against a Louisiana judge.

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Senate to open impeachment trial against judge
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