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GOP momentum toward a Senate takeover is increasing in many respects. But storm clouds are gathering over their head in Delaware and New Hampshire as Tuesday’s primary elections approach. (more)

The dam is breaking. (more)

MANCHESTER N.H. (AP) — Can the Republican establishment and Sarah Palin find happiness in New Hampshire? (more)

Last week congressional handicapper Charlie Cook declared “The Senate’s In Play!”  Renowned political prognosticator Larry J. Sabato bolstered this claim by asserting that “Republicans have an outside shot at winning full control (+10), but are more likely to end up with +8 (or maybe +9).” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Take note, Mitt Romney. (more)

The American Action Network, a conservative political group founded this year to pour millions into competitive elections, is for the first time going after incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat in an increasingly tight fight for reelection. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In the midst of one of the worst recessions in decades, a host of former corporate leaders are spending millions in their quest for elective office, using their personal wealth to push past the political machinery and their own lack of experience. (more)

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Kelly Ayotte, the tough former prosecutor and wife of an Iraq war vet, seemed to be on a glide path to the Republican nomination in New Hampshire and perhaps the Senate. (more)

Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte of Nashua landed one of the last, big GOP endorsements with the backing of former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman of Hollis, The Telegraph confirmed Wednesday. (more)

SALT LAKE CITY—In yet another sign of the Tea Party movement’s growing power, Utah Republicans delivered a crippling blow to three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) by voting him off the GOP ticket for November’s race. (more)

In 1984, singer-songwriter Tina Turner asked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in her breakthrough solo album. This year, political observers find themselves asking the same thing about the massive infiltration of social media into political campaigns—“What’s Social Campaigning Got to Do with It?” As we see it, the answer is pretty simple for candidates running for the U.S. Senate: the difference between winning and losing. (more)

On paper, it’s not just the Republican campaign fundraising arms that have money problems. Several of their Senate candidates do as well. (more)