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Republican Elizabeth Dole, former U.S. labor and transportation secretary, will face Democrat and ex-Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles for a North Carolina Senate seat in one of the most watched Senate races of the year.
The race has tightened recently, with a Mason Dixon poll showing Dole’s lead having shrunk over the last month. A month ago, she had a 14 percent lead over Bowles, according to the Associated Press. Currently, her lead is about 6 percent.
Analysts have predicted that Bowles would have won the race if the party’s primary had been held in the spring as originally planned. But it was delayed until the fall because of a redistricting fight. Although the race is likely to tighten, pollsters believe Dole will pull...
(2 of 2) Elsewhere the picture for the Democrats was looking little better. Democratic challengers are facing photo finishes in New Hampshire and Colorado, and the early momentum of Ron Kirk in Texas has faded. (Kirk, who is black, recently suggested that his opponent favored military action in Iraq because...
Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole rips Democrat Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's ex-chief of staff, for his link to a North Carolina textile company that is "exporting our jobs to Mexico and China." The connection? His wife, Crandall, is the CEO. The attack on his wife left Bowles "galled."