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...Because Coakley vacated her current post to run for attorney general, Middlesex County will have a new district attorney for the first time since...
...attorney general race, veteran Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley beat Republican Larry Frisoli, a former Cambridge vice-mayor, to become Massachusetts’ first female attorney general. Coakley won about two-thirds of the vote, according to early returns...
...Alice K. Wolf, the state representative for the district that includes Harvard, and Democratic Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Somerville, Cambridge, and other parts of Greater Boston, both faced only nominal opposition and won reelection handily...
...Democrats have for the last decade struggled to win in the South, but they think Heath Shuler may be the candidate to start a new tradition in this western North Carolina district. Shuler not only was a football star, both in North Carolina in high school and then at the University of Tennessee, but he's also anti-abortion and frequently talks about his hunting, which has helped him appeal to conservative and rural voters in this area. Taylor, an eight-term incumbent, says he would be much more influential for the district than Shuler, because he sits...
...over the last two days, polls from the Washington Post/ABC News, the Pew Research Center and Gallup, all have shown a Democratic advantage on the so-called generic ballot - asking voters whether they will pick the Democratic or Republican congressional candidate in their district - narrowing. Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee...