The latest on the midterm elections. _____ Republican Ted Budd Maintains Lead inNorth Carolina The battle for a vacant Senate seat in North Carolina could help decide which of the two main political parties controls the upper chamber. Most polls have three-term Republican Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) coming into the final showdown with a steady lead…

The latest on the midterm elections. _____ Republican Ted Budd Maintains Lead inNorth Carolina The battle for a vacant Senate seat in North Carolina could help decide which of the two main political parties controls the upper chamber. Most polls have three-term Republican Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) coming into the final showdown with a steady lead…

The latest on the midterm elections. ____ GOP Eyes Arizona US House Seats in Bid to Flip Control The partisan makeup of Arizona’s U.S. House delegation and control of Congress itself are up for grabs Tuesday, with Republicans hoping to shift the state’s 5–4 Democratic tilt by picking up two and possibly three seats. Redistricting after…

The latest on the midterm elections. ____ North Carolina Swing District May Affect Control of US House Central to Democrats’ fight to fend off a red wave in the U.S. House is North Carolina, home to multiple districts with a slight political lean and one high-profile swing district that analysts have called a national bellwether for…

The latest on the midterm elections. _____ Schumer Comfortable at Home, Imperiled in Washington U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer faces a gentle path to reelection in New York, where his opponent Tuesday is a former host on the conservative TV channel Newsmax. The bigger Election Day question for the Democrat is whether he’ll be able to keep…