Democrat challenges incumbent in House 74 race
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Incumbent Democrat Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor Says Barack Obama Has Been a Drag on HisCampaign
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With so much at stake in Congressional races today, it might be easy to overlook the significance of the 36 gubernatorial contests across the country.
But to do so would mean ignoring many issues that will shape policy debates over the next two years and might even set the stage for the 2016 presidential election.
Democrats have already enjoyed one major upset in Pennsylvania. Democrat Tom Wolf is projected to beat incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in an historic election. If Corbett falls, it will be the first time in 40 years, since the state started permitting two gubernatorial terms that a sitting governor seeking re-election has been defeated.
Republicans have also netted one party switch. Republican Asa Hutchinson is projected to beat Democratic candidate Mike Ross, and take over from outgoing Democrat Mike Beebe.
In other news, ABC News projects that Republican Greg Abbott has defeated Democrat Wendy Davis in the race for governor of Texas. The race to replace Gov. Rick Perry was thrust into the national spotlight after Davis emerged as a star after her her 11-hour filibuster to block an anti-abortion bill last summer.
From the beginning, however, Davis faced a long uphill climb. The Lone-Star state hasn't elected a Democratic governor since 1990, and Abbott made a name for himself among conservatives after battling to the Supreme Court to keep the Ten Commandments on display on the grounds of the State Capitol complex in Austin.
Overall, on an election night many believe will be rough for Democrats, the president's party might find some solace in the chances of some of their gubernatorial candidates.
In 2012 President Obama won in seven of the 22 states where Republican governors are up for re-election this year. This year there are also several incumbents still in neck-and-neck races headed into election day, including Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Wisconsin. Hawaii's incumbent governor, Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, already lost his primary.
In Kansas, a reliably Republican voting base could potentially throw out incumbent Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, over a series of tax cuts that his critics say have gutted the state's budget.
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DENVER (AP) Democrat Andrew Romanoff is hoping for an upset in a congressional district in Denver's eastern suburbs that has been in Republican hands since its creation more than 30 years ago.
The former state House speaker's bid against three-term Republican Rep. Mike Coffman is one of the country's most competitive U.S. House races. It also is the most expensive congressional race in state history.
Romanoff moved to Aurora last year to challenge Coffman. The district has been redrawn to include more Democrats and unaffiliated voters and is now about 20 percent Latino.
Coffman hasn't taken the challenge sitting down. He has been aggressively courting the district's many immigrant groups and has learned Spanish to help communicate with his constituents.
The new boundaries and growing influence of Latino and immigrant voters have driven the race, which will determine who controls a Colorado House delegation that consists of four Republicans and three Democrats. Coffman is the only incumbent facing a real challenge.
The two candidates have raised more than $9 million, according to federal campaign finance disclosures. The national parties and their allies have spent several million more. According to the Wesleyan Media Project, the race checks in at sixth-highest in the nation this year for television ad volume.
Romanoff describes Coffman as an out-of-touch conservative whose background as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration makes him a bad fit for the current district.
"It is very important to me that we have, in this district, a congressman who respects our diversity," Romanoff said last week at the pair's final debate, conducted in Spanish.
But Coffman has softened his immigration tone dramatically since the district was redrawn after the 2010 Census. He's spent weekends learning Spanish and has kept up a tireless schedule meeting with Aurora's many immigrant communities.
Coffman insists he can relate to the district's many newcomers.
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New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen won reelection to a second Senate term Tuesday, withstanding a late push by Republicans to use a toxic national political environment against her.
Shaheen, the first woman in the nation ever elected both governor and senator, relied on her track record in elective office and her well-honed political machine to fend off a challenge from former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who crossed the border from Massachusetts in a bid to return to the Senate.
The Associated Press called the race for Shaheen with about 32% of precincts reporting.
New Hampshire, where politics is an unofficial sport, has been particularly prone to swings in the national political climate. Shaheen lost her first bid for the Senate in 2002, but won a 2008 rematch against John Sununu on the back of President Obamas first race for the White House.
Brown would have become just the third person to represent multiple states in the Senate and the first since 1879.
In Massachusetts, he shocked the political world in 2010 by winning a special election to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat. Brown's victory was an early indicator of opposition to Obamas healthcare law. But Brown lost his bid for a full six-year term in 2012 to Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
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