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Smith and Sununu stress differences By MARK HAYWARD Manchester Union Leader Staff, 8-13-02 DERRY — The Derry widow of a man who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last night confronted U.S. Rep. John E. Sununu over his vote against establishing a commission to investigate the terrorist attacks against the United States. Ellen Mariani, whose husband, Louis “Neil” Mariani was on United Airlines Flight 175, was a panelist at a debate between Sununu and incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Smith at WNDS-TV studios. The two are seeking the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. While the two have been genial...

As the Sept. 10 primary between New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith and Congressman John Sununu nears, Smith has won the endorsements of the nation's top conservative leaders. President Bush has solidly endorsed Senator Smith. Speaking on behalf of the president, advisor Karl Rove said, ". . .The Senator has been enormously supportive of the President." Smith even won the unusual endorsement of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani said, "In public service there’s no substitute for strong leadership, the kind of leadership New Hampshire has in Senator Bob Smith. He’s experienced, effective and always puts principle before politics. …...

The latest statewide poll in New Hampshire shows U.S. Sen. Bob Smith in a virtual tie against challenger Congressman John Sununu. The news is significant for Smith, who had been trailing in the polls earlier this summer. Numbers show he has closed the gap and has momentum on his side as he enter the final stretch of the campaign leading to the Sept. 10 primary. Smith has sought to woo undecided voters with an ad campaign that began last week addressing his brief departure from the Republican Party in July of 1999. At the time, Smith considered a third party...

<p>CONCORD, N.H. (AP) --  Sen. Bob Smith, once trailing badly in his battle for re-election, has pulled even with Rep. John E. Sununu in their Republican primary race, a poll shows.</p> <p>As the two did radio talk shows and greeted voters during the final week before the Sept. 10 primary, a poll showed that whoever wins will be in a close race with popular Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen.</p>

The incumbent senator offers his party more than his rival. On Tuesday, Republican primary voters will place their bets in a gamble of national importance to their party. The Democrats now hold a one-vote majority in the U.S. Senate. One man, either veteran Senator Bob Smith or three-term Rep. John Sununu, will emerge next week to face Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. The other will have to leave Congress. Of the two, Smith offers his party its best hope of retaining the seat. Not incidentally, Smith would also make the better senator. The candidates differ little in philosophy. Both have strong conservative...

BOB SMITH is doing what his critics predicted and even some of his friends feared ? in a last-ditch attempt to avert political defeat, he is resorting to the lowest of smear tactics against John E. Sununu. If it were not so sad and serious, it would be laughable. To question the patriotism and character of U.S. Rep. Sununu is absurd. To equate him with Mideast and anti-American terrorism is a lie and a libel. John Sununu is being backed by just about everyone in the Bush White House and many in Congress. He is being backed by former U.S....

34 Senators will be up for election in 2002It's time to start planning strategy. Review the following table of all 34 of the 2002 Senate Races. Of the 34 races, several Dem Seats have a potential to be flipped to Republican (shown in green rows), a couple of Repub seats have a potential to be flipped to Dem. (shown in yellow rows) These flips are based on the some assumptions: - Using only the 2000 Prez election results to indicate vulnerability, the green rows indicate a potential flip to Republican, The yellow indicate potential flip to DemocRAT. this assumes that ...

<p>From here on in, it's all about their pasts.</p> <p>"Campaigns are more than rhetoric, they're about records," said Carnahan, D-Mo., as she outlined why she deserves four more years in office. "I accomplished some significant things, and I did it in a year and a half."</p>

Senate Democrats are steering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending to states represented by eight of their most vulnerable lawmakers. The aid, in the form of community development block grants, airport facility grants, water project funding and other types of federal assistance, is aimed at helping the political fortunes of vulnerable senators seeking reelection this year. For example, the Senate version of the Housing and Urban Development funding bill sets aside $31.1 million in grants for Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota. The biggest winner is Missouri, represented by freshman Sen. Jean Carnahan (D),...

Sen. Jean Carnahan signs an autograph yesterday for Thomas McDonald of Columbia after a campaign rally at Russell Boulevard Elementary School. Unofficially kicking off her first election campaign, U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan stopped at a Columbia school yesterday on her "Freedom, Faith and Family" bus tour. In a rally at Russell Boulevard Elementary School, Carnahan told cheering partisans that she was following in the footsteps of Harry Truman. "He connected with the hopes and the hurt of working men and women," she said, referring to the former president’s 1948 whistle-stop train tour. "When he did, he won and he won...

<p>As Sen. Jean Carnahan launched her "Freedom, Faith and Family" bus tour from Forest Park last week, police surrounded about a dozen protesters waving placards of aborted fetuses.</p> <p>Although Missouri Right to Life says it didn't organize those pickets, leaders of the state's largest anti-abortion group say the U.S. Senate race will figure prominently in its activities this fall.</p>

WASHINGTON - For Jim Talent, facing one opponent named Carnahan in Missouri will be tough enough.But he might be facing two.Talent, a Republican, is trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan in one of the tightest and most closely watched Senate contests in the country. In the split Senate, Missouri's is one of a handful of races that could determine which party wins the majority.Hovering over the campaign is the memory of Carnahan's late husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash three weeks before the 2000 election.The question becomes whether the lingering sympathy will mean Talent must...

<p>Republican nominee Jim Talent enters the final, 10-week stretch of the U.S. Senate campaign in a stronger position than the incumbent, Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., a new poll of Missouri voters shows.</p> <p>Of 801 likely voters polled statewide, 47.1 percent supported Talent, compared to 46 percent for Carnahan. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points, which makes the matchup "too close to call," said pollster John Zogby.</p>

WASHINGTON - Among the handful of hot Senate contests across the country this fall, Missouri's stands out so far for one reason:Sen. Jean Carnahan, the Democrat, and Jim Talent, the Republican, have not yet appeared together, although not for any lack of trying on Talent's part.In three other nationally watched Senate races that are also expected to be close -- Arkansas, Minnesota and South Dakota -- the candidates have all debated or held joint forums at least once, with more scheduled.The Talent campaign has been pressing Carnahan to agree to more than half a dozen requests for debates. Everyone from...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are saying they could regain control of the Senate before 2003 if Jim Talent unseats Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan. A GOP senator raised the idea this week, saying that if Talent is able to defeat Carnahan, he will push for an immediate swearing-in. That would give Republicans an advantage if they meet for a lame-duck session after the Nov. 5 election. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, told the publication Congressional Quarterly this week that such a move would return the party split in the Senate to 50-50, handing Republicans the majority because Vice President Dick Cheney casts...

U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Talent announced he has accepted a debate request issued by the world's longest running program "Meet the Press." If Mrs. Carnahan also accepts, the debate will take place at the NBC Studios in Washington D.C. on Sunday, October 6, 2002....snip... Missouri is one of only a handful of states where there is a key U.S. Senate race that has not had a debate. Democrat incumbent Senator Tim Johnson and Republican challenger Congressman John Thune have debated three times in South Dakota. There have been three debates in Minnesota's Senate contest between Democrat incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone...

MERRIMACK – Mike Dillon of Nashua wears a white T-shirt with Uncle Sam on the front while handing out grainy copies of an Osama bin Laden photograph inside the bulls-eye of a dart board. He decided long ago who will get his vote Tuesday in what has become one of the most closely watched Senate primaries in the nation between Sen. Bob Smith and Rep. John E. Sununu.“This is a bad time for him (Sununu) to be running against Senator Smith, an honorable guy who has been doing his job superbly. No question. Smith is my man,” Dillon said near...