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A poll out today finds Democratic voters in Pennsylvania are getting more engaged as Election Day nears, putting the race between Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey back into the toss up column. Sestak leads Toomey 46%-45% in the Public ...

The Anchorage Daily News has filed paperwork to join a lawsuit seeking to make public some personnel files of US Senate candidate Joe Miller when he worked for the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

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.

Some Democrats are opening up a new front in their fight to save their seats — against Nancy Pelosi, a party leader.

FiveThirtyEight's projection for the U.S. House shows little change from last week. Republicans are given a 73 percent chance of taking over the House, up incrementally from 72 percent last week. During an average simulation run, Republicans finished with 227 seats, up from 226 last week; this would suggest a net gain of 48 seats from the 179 they hold currently.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, the "tea party" favorite who hopes to topple him in the November election, sparred in their first and only debate Thursday night, staking out familiar positions on the ends of the political spectrum.

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.

American voters unhappy at high unemployment are poised to oust President Barack Obama's Democrats from control of the U.S. House of Representatives in Nov. 2 elections, a new Reuters-Ipsos poll found Wednesday.

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.