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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, in her role as head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, tried to tap an odd donor recently while dialing for campaign dollars to retain the Democrats’ Senate majority. (more)

The head of the state agency in charge of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s old medical records yesterday shot down national Democrats’ claim that the health-care provider misunderstood an opposition research request for his family’s private information. (more)

Senate Democrats have yet to settle on a chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. (more)

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez said Sunday that Democrats are open to temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, which are set to expire at the end of this year. (more)

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee launched a new ad attacking GOP senate candidate John Raese for being “out of touch” with West Virginians and being more involved in Florida. (more)

The committee tasked with electing Republicans to the Senate raised $6.2 million in the first two weeks of October, about half a million dollars more than its Democratic counterpart. (more)

Lately, Colorado women have been seeing plenty of “fear factor” television advertising. Over the past few weeks, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spent thousands of dollars on TV ads to scare women into believing that Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck is anti-woman and will infringe upon a woman’s right to have an abortion. (more)

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, struggling to keep Democrats in power in the upper chamber, raised $15.5 million in September. (more)

Democrats very badly want Pennsylvania’s Senate race to be close. It’s the tip of the spear in their push this week to capitalize on a few glimmers of momentum around the country. (more)

A top official at the Republican committee in charge of raising money for Senate candidates said Tuesday that a GOP takeover of the Senate is possible, indicating growing confidence on the right about the Nov. 2 elections. (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)

A week ago, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray looked like she might be running away from Republican challenger Dino Rossi in the Washington Senate race. But that was before the GOP launched a nearly $4 million fusillade of TV advertising. (more)

According to a source in Pennsylvania who tracks television advertising by political campaigns, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee bought only $260,000 in TV ads this week in Pennsylvania–about a 50 percent drop from the $500,000 or more the DSCC has been spending on TV ads each week for the past five weeks in the state. (more)

The news Tuesday that the Connecticut Senate race is edging close to a dead heat was bad news for Democrats looking at the national map. (more)

WASHINGTON — American Crossroads, the tax-exempt group political group founded by nationally noted GOP strategist Karl Rove and others, is making its first foray into Illinois on Wednesday with a cartoon-style ad attacking Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias for recklessness, using two widely cited allegations raised by his GOP opponent. (more)

Democrats love a good fight on the right. (more)

WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta is one of the best-connected rainmakers in the nation’s capital, with a web of personal contacts stretching back 42 years and six Democratic presidential candidates. His brother John was Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff and an adviser on President Barack Obama’s transition team. (more)

Last week, a group of 36 national and local businesses and free-market organizations sent President Obama a letter urging a moratorium on insourcing — a practice by which private-sector jobs are contracted into the federal government – according to a press release put out by the Business Coalition for Fair Competition (BCFC). (more)

It took less than an hour after Linda McMahon’s triumph in the Connecticut Republican primary election for Senate Tuesday night for Democrats to throw her past as a pro wrestling CEO in her face, in a volley of attacks that is unlikely to cease until election day in November. (more)

Democratic leaders are pushing departing lawmakers to turn over their war chests to help the party retain control of Congress, but in some cases are getting a stiff-arm. (more)