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A look of the key races in the 50 states: (more)

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — It’s hard to turn off Meg Whitman. The most expensive campaign for governor in U.S. history — about $162 million and counting — is inundating California voters with an unprecedented array of TV and radio ads, glossy magazines, smartphone messages, Facebook videos, postcards and phone calls that will test how far a Republican dollar can go in a state Democrats often dominate. (more)

In a close election race against former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer is facing new ethics complaints over asking teachers to send their students to work for her campaign. (more)

A new National Republican Senatorial Committee ad attacking California’s junior Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer targets women, a demographic with which Boxer’s Republican opponent Carly Fiorina polls badly. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California GOP Senate challenger Carly Fiorina was sidelined Tuesday from the campaign trail in the final week of a close race to be treated for an infection associated with her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer. (more)

Democratic candidates in California have extended their leads over Republican challengers in the races for Senate and the governor’s mansion, a new Fox News poll shows. (more)

The race for the open Connecticut Senate seat, which has been seen as a possible pick up for Republicans, is trending to stay in Democratic hands, narrowing the number of opportunities the GOP has to win the Senate. (more)

In the final days before the midterm elections, the fundraisers at MoveOn.org have a proposition for members: Give us five bucks now and we’ll stop sending you e-mails asking for money. (more)

Best-case scenario for the GOP: their hopes of taking the Senate come down to Washington, California and Pennsylvania. (more)

A well-known Hollywood producer and director has cut an ad against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) riffing on when the senator chided an Army brigadier general last year for calling her “ma’am.” (more)

GOProud, a group that represents gay conservatives, is going where no gay organization has gone before: It’s running a campaign ad against a Democratic candidate. (more)

President Obama on Thursday night exhorted supporters at a Democratic fundraiser in California to help him spread the party’s message, expressing some frustration that he could not meet more voters himself. (more)

A series of polls in recent days have shown key Senate races tightening, with the leads of both Republican and Democrat candidates shrinking rather than either party gaining momentum. (more)

President Obama’s travel schedule this week says everything about which states will determine whether Democrats retain control of the Senate. (more)

Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record on military issues and calling her the “most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today” — an assessment he said he’d made while having “the unpleasant experience” of serving with her. (more)

This Sunday, many New York Times readers will read that our country spent $787 billion on an economic experiment or test model of sorts. You know, that test model known as the “stimulus.” The New York Times’ White House correspondent, Peter Baker, says that the president admitted in an interview with him that he learned too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects.” (more)

Democrats can’t seem to wait for Sarah Palin to be back on a ballot. (more)

Two top California legislators are coming under fire after new evidence has emerged that they helped a group of radical antiwar activists cross the Iraqi-Jordanian border in order to deliver aid to families of enemy insurgents in the war-ridden Iraqi city of Fallujah. In December 2004, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D) each sent letters of diplomatic courtesy to the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, requesting assistance for members of the radical group Global Exchange and the antiwar group Palisadians for Peace. (more)

A watchdog group is questioning whether Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer could have been more transparent over a year ago in voluntarily disclosing the extent of her past mortgages with the company Countrywide. (more)

Republicans need to take 10 seats currently held by Democrats in order to win back control of the Senate. Three weeks out from the midterm elections, this season’s pivotal Senate races can be divided into four categories. (more)