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The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska faces high hurdles as a write-in Senate candidate -- her own campaign demonstrated as much on Monday with a rather striking mistake in the first online ad of her renewed re-election bid.

Charles B. Rangel, facing a host of ethics charges in Washington, was leading in a district in which the Democratic nomination is tantamount to a general election victory.

He says he might be one to give Obama the boot. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gives President Barack Obama only a 20 percent chance of being reelected — and says he might be the one to give Obama the boot.

The conservative Tea Party movement in the US blocks a Republican senator from Utah in his re-election bid. Sen Bennett came third at a Republican Party convention in Salt Lake City.

Gov. David A. Paterson, his administration caught up in a whirlwind of allegations about its intervention in a domestic violence episode involving a top aide, is set to announce that he is suspending his election campaign and will not run in November, according to a person told about the plans.

It's like 2008 all over again: Mitt Romney is endorsing John McCain. This time, though, it's not after a bitter presidential primary between the two GOP rivals. McCain, facing a primary challenge for reelection to the Senate, picked up Romney's ...

National Democrats -- stunned by Sen. Evan Bayh's (D) announcement Monday that he would not seek reelection -- have begun to mull their options to replace the popular two-term incumbent.

Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

The Feb. 5-10 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn't receive another term.

Gov. David Paterson met privately with key Democratic leaders about his re-election plans as questions swirl around the state capitol about a variety of unproven accusations involving the Democratic governor's personal conduct.