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Senator John McCain s daughter said on Sunday that Senate nominee Christine O Donnell of Delaware, a Tea Party favorite, is seen as a nut job.

GOP candidates in the closest campaigns for the Senate have moved ahead of their Democratic rivals in the fund-raising race, according to reports released late Friday.

Democrats in Connecticut and New York are reasserting their traditional edge over GOP candidates who just weeks ago were making it a tight race. There's more: Democrats have made gains in Washington, Delaware and California, and could retain their seats in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Nevada.

Delaware Senate candidates Chris Coons and Christine O'Donnell faced off in their first debate on Wednesday night, a feisty exchange on issues ranging from evolution to Afghanistan to gays serving in the military to whether China is planning to take over the United States.

The big money battle in the US Senate race, which had been tilted in Republican Joe Miller's favor, evened out some on Tuesday with a big advertising push from a coalition of unions and Alaska Native corporations.

Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Connecticut, says she will limit herself to two terms if she is elected Nov. 2.

Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller says his family benefited from Medicaid and a state-run health care program for low-income children and pregnant women.Miller previously acknowledged receiving federal farm subsidies for land he owned in Kansas in the 1990s, as well as low-income hunting and fishing licenses for him and his wife in Alaska.As a conservative candidate, he's criticized certain entitlement programs. Sitting Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who's running for re-election as a write-in candidate against him, called Miller a hypocrite.

President Barack Obama threw his weight behind a Democratic bid to save his old Senate seat on Thursday as he sought to rally his party less than four weeks before elections that threaten its grip on ...

A Republican majority would threaten policies to stabilize the economy, the president says during a radio interview, part of an effort to rally key Democratic constituencies. A Republican majority in Congress would mean "hand-to-hand combat" on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize the economy, President Obama warned Thursday.

The Tea Party Express plans to spend "six figures" on the Alaska general election for U.S. Senate, the group said Monday in Anchorage.