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UPDATED 2:30 p.m., Sept. 6 with Miller announcements FAIRBANKS – Republican U.S. Sen.

UPDATED 2:30 p.m., Sept. 6 with Miller announcements FAIRBANKS – Republican U.S. Sen.

About 60 people gathered at a Wilmington hotel for a tea party gathering where O’Donnell made a surprise appearance and accused U.S. Rep.

About 60 people gathered at a Wilmington hotel for a tea party gathering where O’Donnell made a surprise appearance and accused U.S. Rep.

Labor Day is over, and that means the ritual focus on the mid-term elections. For both parties there are hopeful and troubling signs with eight weeks to go.

Labor Day is over, and that means the ritual focus on the mid-term elections. For both parties there are hopeful and troubling signs with eight weeks to go.

When Phil St. George took a flight over an area north of Lake Iliamna in 1988, he noted that the lush, rocky terrain made it look like an enormous golf course.

When Sen. Scott Brown staged his surprise special election win in January, he relied heavily on Massachusetts’ 10th Congressional District.

A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head. But the perpetually tanned, chain-smoking Ohioan might be the next House speaker and a huge force in national politics, trying to manage an increasingly libertarian-leaning Republican caucus while leading the opposition to President Barack Obama’s policies.