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Jeanne Shaheen, who stepped down as director of the Institute of Politics on Friday to run for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, lost by 4 percent the last time she sought the seat in 2002. But changes in the state’s political dynamics suggest that she might face an easier time in the upcoming race...
Shaheen, a Democrat, will vie in next year's election against John E. Sununu, the Republican senator who defeated Shaheen in 2002 when she ran for the seat...
Shaheen's decision to pursue the Senate seat was also reported late last night by the New Hampshire Union-Leader...
Shaheen will compete for the seat in a state that has trended increasingly Democratic in recent years. In 2004, New Hampshire voters chose Kerry over George W. Bush, and elected a Democrat, former Harvard Business School admissions director John Lynch, to serve as the state's governor...
...Benefiting from the backlash against Greece's two main parties, the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party is expected to break the three percent threshold needed to enter the country's 300-seat parliament. Georgios Karatzaferis founded the LAOS after Karamanlis expelled him from the New Democracy party for his extreme views. A 2005 U.S. State Department report on anti-Semitism cited Karatzaferis as "regularly attributing negative events involving Greece to Jewish plots. He denounced politicians with Jewish origins and claims that Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks." The party has attracted droves of voters, however, though many...