Rebecca Berg

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Mark Pryor makes six-figure TV buy attacking Tom Cotton on entitlement cuts

Mark Pryor makes six-figure TV buy attacking Tom Cotton on entitlement cuts

Rebecca Berg · November 13, 2013 5:00 am

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land is leading Democrat Gary Peters 44 percent-36 percent in a new poll. (AP File)

Republican Senate leaders to host fundraiser for Michigan’s Terri Land

Rebecca Berg · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Bill Cassidy was endorsed early by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the state's de facto Republican leader, and backed by other GOP members of the state's congressional delegation. (AP Photo)

Senate Conservatives Fund spooks Louisiana GOP, but unlikely to alter Senate race

Rebecca Berg · November 11, 2013 5:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is taking on conservative groups that he says use controversies of their own creation to raise money and then "take their cut and spend it on political action that hurts Republicans." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell claims conservative groups ‘misled’ supporters ‘for profit’

Rebecca Berg · November 8, 2013 5:00 am

The New Republic magazine imagines Hillary Clinton's political "nightmare" on the cover of its new edition, paying homage to the promotional cover of "Being John Malkovich."

Magazine cover conjures ‘Hillary’s nightmare’

Rebecca Berg · November 8, 2013 5:00 am

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes included a photo of her shooting a .22 long rifle in her statement released Friday. (Courtesy photo)

Alison Lundergan Grimes invites Mitch McConnell to gun range

Rebecca Berg · November 8, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama exchanges high fives with a youngster after arriving at Love Field in Dallas on Wednesday. Obama came to Texas to promote his health care law. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Louis DeLuca)

Obama fires up Democratic donors with warnings about 2014 elections

Rebecca Berg · November 7, 2013 5:00 am

For Democrats, McAuliffe's victory in Virginia over Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli -- though only by about 55,000 votes -- could hint at how politically toxic the issue of Obamacare will be in 2014. (AP Photo)

Both parties look for lessons from 2013 that could help in 2014

Rebecca Berg · November 7, 2013 5:00 am

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally for Virginia gubernatorial candidate, democrat Terry McAuliffe, right, at the State Theater in Falls Church, Va., on Oct. 19. (AP File)

Clinton drops in popularity after return from diplomat to Democrat

Rebecca Berg · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe greets campaign workers, from left, Rose Roberson, Johnetta Seward and Gloria Barnes at a Chesterfield County, Va., campaign field office on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Mark Gormus)

Terry McAuliffe elected governor of Virginia, defeats conservative Ken Cuccinelli

Rebecca Berg · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

In the wake of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's commanding re-election victory Tuesday, Democrats dismissed the outcome as a one-time phenomenon for Republicans. (AP Photo)

Democrats dismiss Chris Christie’s victory as an ‘anomaly’ that won’t be repeated

Rebecca Berg · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., is running for Senate in 2014, but his past controversial statements have some Republican strategists worried that he would be a weak general-election contender. (AP/David Goldman)

GOP says ‘there are no rules’ in election fight to take the Senate

Rebecca Berg · November 5, 2013 5:00 am