What committee did an American politician and veterinarian, that predicted the United States Senate election in Alaska, 2008 would be competitive, serve as chairman for?
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United States Senate election in Alaska, 2008 The 2008 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and former President pro tempore Ted Stevens ran for re-election to a seventh term in the United States Senate. It was one of the ten Senate races that U.S. Senator John Ensign of Nevada, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted as being most competitive. The primaries were held on Tuesday, August 26. Ted Stevens was challenged by Democratic candidate Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage.
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John Ensign John Eric Ensign (born March 25, 1958) is an American veterinarian and former politician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a Congressman and United States Senator from Nevada, serving in the latter seat from January 2001 until May 2011. He resigned amid a Senate Ethics Committee investigation.
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Harris Wofford Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. (born April 9, 1926) is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995. A noted advocate of national service and volunteering, Wofford was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978, served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in 1986, as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry in the cabinet of Governor Robert P. Casey from 1987 to 1991 and was a surrogate for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, "A More Perfect Union".
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United States Senate election in Alaska, 1984 The 1984 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican Senator Ted Stevens sought re-election to a third term in the United States Senate. Owing to his popularity and the conservative bent of Alaska, Stevens did not face major opposition, and easily crushed former Alaska Attorney General John Havelock in the general election.
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Howard Phillips (politician) Howard Jay Phillips (February 3, 1941 – April 20, 2013) was a three-time United States presidential candidate who served as the chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a conservative public policy advocacy group which he founded in 1991. Phillips was a founding member of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, which later became known as the Constitution Party.
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David Durenberger David Ferdinand "Dave" Durenberger (born August 19, 1934) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.
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Republican Moderate Party of Alaska The Republican Moderate Party of Alaska is a political party in Alaska formed by Ray Metcalfe in 1986 as an alternative to what Metcalfe perceived to be a Republican Party dominated by the Religious Right. Only one candidate has ever won an election, a 2002 race for the state senate, but that candidate (Thomas Wagoner) re-affiliated with the Republican Party the day after the election. The Republican Moderate Party has extensive litigation-related history, due in no small part to its minor party status. Previous cases have included ballot access rights and an early challenge to its name by the Republican Party of Alaska. After a record of success in the 1990s, its support has slowly dwindled, ending with just 0.63% of the 2002 gubernatorial election. State law requires that 3% of registered voters vote for a party or be registered to it for recognition. A court challenge initially overturned this law, holding that it was more restrictive than what the state required of independent candidates, but resulted in the original law being upheld by the Alaska Supreme Court on the grounds that a party candidate has more impact than an independent candidate. The party has since been recognized by the state again. As of October 2010 there were 2,719 members statewide.
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United States Senate election in Idaho, 2008 The 2008 United States Senate election in Idaho was held on November 4, 2008. The primary elections were held on May 27. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Larry Craig decided to retire instead of seeking a fourth term. Republican Jim Risch won the open seat.
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Gene Therriault Gene Therriault was a Republican member of the Alaska Senate, representing the F district from 2000 to 2009. He most recently served as the Senate Minority Leader. Previously he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1992 through 2000.
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Thomas Wagoner Thomas H. Wagoner (born September 19, 1942) is an American politician and businessman who served in the Alaska Senate from 2003 until 2013.
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Maurice Stans Maurice Hubert Stans (March 22, 1908April 14, 1998) was an American accountant, high-ranking civil servant, Cabinet member, and political organizer. He served as the finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President, working for the re-election of Richard Nixon, and was a peripheral figure in the ensuing Watergate Scandal.
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Lloyd Jones (politician) Lloyd Jones (born September 23, 1937) is an American retired politician who served in the Alaska Senate until 1992, when he was succeeded in office by Robin L. Taylor.
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American Leadership Project The American Leadership Project (ALP) is an unincorporated association organized under section 527 of the IRS code formed in February 2008 in order to highlight issues of importance to the American middle class, such the economy, jobs, the rising cost of health care, and the mortgage crisis. The ALP intended to communicate issue-specific messages during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary elections and presently for the general election. The ALP does not coordinate with any candidate or any candidate’s committee. The ALP's messages were used preceding primary elections in the states of Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. The ads had been pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-Barack Obama. Since the conclusion of the Primary season, with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee and John McCain as the Republican candidate, the organization has run several ads against McCain.
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Lee Atwater Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater (February 27, 1951 – March 29, 1991) was an American political consultant and strategist for the Republican Party. He was an adviser to US presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater aroused controversy through his aggressive campaign tactics, such as using "weasel" questions to achieve favorable poll results.
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Dean Barkley Dean Malcolm Barkley (born August 31, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who briefly served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 2002 to 2003. A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party (the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning, and appointed Barkley to the U.S. Senate after the death of Paul Wellstone. Barkley ran as the Independence Party's candidate for the Senate in 2008, finishing third as Democrat Al Franken defeated the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman by 312 votes.
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Thomas M. Reynolds Thomas M. Reynolds (born September 3, 1950), commonly known as Tom Reynolds, is a politician from the U.S. state of New York, formerly representing the state's 27th and 26th Congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives. He is best known as the engineer of historic losses in his capacity at Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Reynolds was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the official Republican House campaign organization, for the 2006 election cycle. He retired amid scandal at the end of the 110th Congress. Chris Lee was elected to succeed him.
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Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1990, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years.
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Tim Flakoll Tim Flakoll (born October 8, 1959) is an American politician. He was a member of the North Dakota State Senate from the 44th District of North Fargo, serving from December 1, 1998 through November 30, 2016. Senator Flakoll served on the Senate Education committee for 18 years including serving as Vice-Chairman and as Chair from 2012 - 2016. Flakoll Chaired the Senate Agriculture committee for ten years from 2002 till 2012. All bills in North Dakota receive hearings and votes on the floor. In the 14 years that Flakoll Chaired the Senate Education or Senate Agriculture committees, those committees never lost a committee recommendation on the floor during a floor vote.
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Deborah Honeycutt Dr. Deborah Ann Travis "D. Ann" Honeycutt (born August 8, 1947) is an American politician and medical doctor. Honeycutt was the Republican candidate for Georgia's 13th congressional district in 2006 and 2008. She attended the 2008 Republican National Convention. In 2004, Honeycutt was President of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and in 2005 she served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Georgian Academy.
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John H. Hager John Henry Hager (born August 28, 1936) is an American politician who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from July 2007 until May 2008. He also served as the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002, and as an assistant secretary within the United States Department of Education from 2004 to 2007.
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Vice Chairman of the Democratic Caucus The Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus is the third-ranking position in the United States Senate Democratic Caucus, created for Senator Chuck Schumer of New York in November 2006 after an exceptionally successful tenure as Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The Vice Chair is a member of the Democratic party leadership of the United States Senate, and is charged with "overseeing Democratic strategy and policy, and keeping and building support for Democratic values".
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Frank Church Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981. He is known for heading the Church Committee, which investigated abuses in the United States Intelligence Community.