Politics

Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Sixth Congressional District of Illinois

The candidates

Peter Roskam

Party: Republican

Age: 45

Career: State senator, teacher and lawyer

Political experience: Elected member of Illinois General Assembly in 1993; appointed to state Senate, elected to state Senate in 2000.

By EDWARD EPSTEIN
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Tammy Duckworth makes the most dramatic entrance in American politics. She can't help it.

Duckworth, 38, the Democratic nominee in a tightly fought, expensive race for a traditionally Republican House seat in Chicago's seemingly endless western suburbs, lost both legs when the Army combat helicopter she was piloting north of Baghdad in 2004 was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.

By TOM HUMPHREY
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
A group funded by a Texan who was also the leading financer of "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" has become the first independent political organization to enter the TV advertising war in Tennessee's U.S.

By RACHEL GORDON
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Daniel Murphy, a retired factory worker who lives in the mountain suburbs east of this Southwestern city, embodies the political psyche of New Mexicans: independent, party loyalty be damned.

Murphy is a registered Republican, but he plans to cast his vote in November for Patricia "Patsy" Madrid, the Democratic challenger to four-term GOP House member Heather Wilson.

"We made a mistake going into Iraq, and now I think it's time to fix that mistake," said Murphy, 69.

By EDWARD EPSTEIN and KIMBERLY GEIGER
Monday, October 30, 2006
Traditionally Republican big business interests are hedging their electoral bets this year by increasing their campaign contributions to Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, whose party is given a healthy shot at taking House control in the Nov.

By MATT CANHAM
Monday, October 30, 2006
U.S. House leaders may have delayed taking action against former Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley because they were afraid of appearing anti-gay, according to Sen.

By JOHN MULLIGAN
Monday, October 30, 2006
The prospect of a two-house congressional power shift has moved in recent days from the realm of Democratic hope to palpable Republican fear, thanks largely to a former GOP congressman's scandalous dealings with underage House pages.

Along with renewed focus on bad news from Iraq and the traditional weakness of a president's party in the last election of his administration, disgraced former Rep.

By KATE NASH
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Will he or won't he?

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says he'll answer The Question before the state legislature convenes in January.

For now _ just weeks before the Nov.

By TOM HUMPHREY
Friday, October 27, 2006
Democrats say that Tennessee Republicans injected racism into a fund-raising appeal by using "code words" and a photograph of Democratic Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr.

By ERIC BLACK
Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Mark Foley scandal has focused a national spotlight on Minnesota's 6th Congressional District race because of Democrat Patty Wetterling's background as a children's-safety advocate.

On Tuesday, Wetterling rushed a TV ad onto the air calling for a criminal investigation of Foley _ the Florida Republican who resigned his House seat on Friday over sexually explicit electronic messages to teenage pages _ and the expulsion of any members of Congress who knew about Foley's conduct but did not take action.

On Wednesday, she was chosen to the give the national Democratic response this Saturday to President Bush's weekly radio address.

In addition, TV networks lined up Wednesday for interview time with Wetterling, and The New York Times and The Washington Post, seeking the political repercussions of the Foley case, quickly discovered the race between Wetterling and Republican state Sen.