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...Rhode Island, moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee was defeated by former state attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse. And in Massachusetts, Democrat Deval L. Patrick ’78 won the state’s governorship. In addition to campaigning for Patrick at home, the Dems had taken several trips to Rhode Island to campaign for Whitehouse. And the club also stumped for Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in his successful bid to oust Republican Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania...
...other statewide races, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56—a member of the Senate since 1962—easily defeated Republican Kenneth Chase by a three to one margin...
...John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts and the namesake of a House in his own right, will also be digitized as part of the effort. The site will also digitize papers of Winthrop’s family, which would continue to influence Massachusetts politics for centuries to come. (Sen. John F. Kerry is a descendant.) The project is funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a matching amount from the historical society, and additional support from the HUP, according to the society’s senior associate editor, Ondine E. LeBlanc. This...
...chairs of the Democrats' House and Senate campaign committees, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, announced a joint closing theme for the party on Monday morning: "Time for a New Direction on Iraq," and urged their voters to send a message rejecting what Emanuel calls "the Bush-Rumsfeld strategy in Iraq." Democrats say they were buoyed over the weekend by an Army Times editorial calling for Rumsfeld's resignation, as well as excerpts from an upcoming Vanity Fair article quoting key neoconservatives expressing pessimism about Iraq. "These pieces got us away from the broken...
...While U.S. Sen. John McCain was scheduled to glad-hand with Corker on Friday, former President Bill Clinton stumped for Ford on his home turf in Memphis Wednesday. At the same time, VoteVets Action Fund, organized by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, prepared to spend $480,000 to blitz Tennessee with a television ad critical of U.S. policy in Iraq and, by inference, of Republicans like Corker...