Betsy Woodruff

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Gillespie remains bullish about Virginia

Gillespie remains bullish about Virginia

Betsy Woodruff · September 23, 2014 3:32 pm

Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land has signed a pledge to repeal Obamacare. (AP Photo)

Land takes hard line on Obamacare

Betsy Woodruff · September 22, 2014 4:12 pm

Congressman Gary Peters, D-Mich., has been running a fairly low-key campaign filled with the kind of workaday retail politicking that an incumbent might do. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

The other candidate in Michigan’s Senate race lays low

Betsy Woodruff · September 22, 2014 9:00 am

Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as he speaks during a news conference in North Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Bush nephew’s PAC to back Cotton, others

Betsy Woodruff · September 21, 2014 12:46 pm

Women voters not keen on GOP women

Women voters not keen on GOP women

Betsy Woodruff · September 20, 2014 9:00 am

Democrat Chad Taylor listens to arguments before the Kansas Supreme Court in his petition to remove his name from the ballot after he withdrew from the U.S. Senate race Tuesday, in Topeka, Kan. Taylor's attempt to remove his name from the ballot has been disputed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, who backs incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts. Taylor's withdrawal from the race potentially improves the chances of independent candidate Greg Orman defeating Roberts. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas judges help Democrats

Betsy Woodruff · September 19, 2014 3:44 pm

A Tea Party group with a sizable email list is kicking off an unlikely campaign today to draft Rep. Trey Gowdy as speaker of the House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tea Party group pushes Gowdy for speaker

Betsy Woodruff · September 17, 2014 5:59 pm

Paul Davis, a Democrat running for governor against Republican incumbent Sam Brownback, has broadened his lead in the race despiteÂ negative ads against him.Â (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Davis expands lead over Brownback in election for Kansas governor

Betsy Woodruff · September 16, 2014 11:13 pm

Greg Orman may have already won the Kansas Senate race, thanks to several savvy moves he made this summer. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Greg Orman — canny in Kansas

Betsy Woodruff · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

Terri Lynn Land, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, walks in the Labor Day Parade in Romeo, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Is Land sliding in the polls?

Betsy Woodruff · September 14, 2014 12:56 pm

Republican Senate candidate Rob Maness, a former nuclear operations officer in the National Military Command Center, was at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Senate candidate was in Pentagon on Sept. 11

Betsy Woodruff · September 11, 2014 5:22 pm

"We've got to cut off the financial flows to them," said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. "That involves cooperation. That does not involve shooting." (Getty images/Alex Wong)

House Dems have questions for Obama

Betsy Woodruff · September 10, 2014 9:36 pm