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...governor. But in December she set up a gubernatorial exploratory committee, funding it with $1 million from her $8 million federal campaign chest. That move forced major Republican donors to choose sides, and it has sparked a wave of speculation about whether or when she might resign her Senate seat and who would seek to replace...
...Democratic wannabes, most notably Houston mayor and former Clinton Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White and former Texas comptroller John Sharp, are lining up for the potential Senate seat, leaving Perry and Hutchison to fight it out in the governor's race. "If people knew it was going to be [just] Rick Perry, you'd see folks willing to put their name forward," Democratic state representative Leticia Van de Putte told the San Antonio Express. "People understand in a general election that Kay Bailey Hutchison is such an intense brand, it's hard to get market share on that...
Kennedy, Caroline • mysterious cessation, then uncessation, then recessation of once seemingly assured but apparently always hopeless quest for Senate seat...
...lots of unscripted moments. On Wednesday, when President Obama entered a briefing room at the Old Executive office building, his staff and the press instinctively stood up. Obama was taken off guard. "I'm still getting used to that," he said, after telling everyone to have a seat. Later in the same event, Obama struggled with the practice of using a different pen for every document he signed. "They are very nice pens," the President advised his aides. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's inauguration...
...First won elected office in 2006, when she beat a four-term incumbent Republican 53% to 47% for a seat in Congress representing an area from the Upper Hudson Valley north into the Adirondacks. The 2006 race got personal and nasty: a domestic-violence-related police report about her opponent was leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district...