A political scientist in Georgia says the runoff victory by Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss last night over Democratic challenger Jim Martin may give the GOP some sorely needed momentum heading into 2010.

Senator Chambliss said last night his landslide win was an affirmation of "conservative Georgia values" and tried to bill the runoff as the first contest of the 2010 election cycle...

Fresh off his runoff victory Tuesday night, Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base.

“I can't overstate the impact she had down here,” Chambliss said during an interview Wednesday morning on Fox News...

The U.S. state of Georgia votes in a run-off election for U.S. Senate on Tuesday that will help decide whether Democrats gain a big enough majority in the chamber to ram through legislation virtually at will.

Polls make incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss a slight favorite to beat Jim Martin and block Democrats from holding 60 seats in the 100-seat Senate...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is adding her name to the list of big-name surrogates who are making campaign cameos in the last remaining Senate election this year.

Palin teams up with Sen. Saxby Chambliss at a fundraiser Sunday night and at four campaign stops across Georgia on Monday, the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's runoff election.

Chambliss is the freshman Republican senator from Georgia who is fighting to keep his seat. He's facing Jim Martin -- a former state lawmaker in Georgia -- in the runoff election...

The Roman Catholic Church is cutting off funds to the community organizing group ACORN, citing complaints over its voter registration drives in the November 4 election as part of the reason.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development froze its contributions to the group in June amid allegations that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, had embezzled nearly $1 million.

This week, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Baltimore, Maryland, the campaign's chairman said it was cutting all ties with the group...

The director of an organization that "trains up the next generation of leaders by helping to elect godly men and women" says he's seeing tremendous numbers of youth coming out in support of the Republican presidential ticket.

A top advisor to Barack Obama says, if elected president, the Democratic
candidate will look to appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of Justices
Stephen Breyer and David Souter.
 
“Of course, he’s interested in people
of integrity and competence, that’s a given,” Pepperdine University law
professor Doug Kmiec told CNSNews.com. “He’s also indicated that he’s most
attracted to the kind of justice represented by Justice Breyer and Justice
Souter.”

The tight U.S. senate race in North Carolina between incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole and Democrat Kay Hagan has intensified with a new ad that Dole is airing statewide, accusing her challenger of accepting campaign contributions from an atheist group.

Dole's campaign is hammering North Carolina State Senator Kay Hagan for attending a fundraiser on September 15, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the home of Woody Kaplan, an advisor to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, a liberal Washington-based group whose goal is "mobilizing America's nonbelievers for political activism." Massachusetts Senator John Kerry also attended the event...

Former GOP presidential candidate Sam Brownback is kicking off a "Floridians of Faith for McCain" tour this week. The Kansas senator makes stops in Maitland, Port St. Lucie and Pembroke Pines on Wednesday. Brownback vists Ave Maria on Thursday...

Barack Obama's presidential campaign is pressuring the Department of Justice to put off a probe of voter registration fraud allegations leveled against the now infamous liberal group ACORN. Lawyers for the Obama campaign have written U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, asking him to delay any investigations of voter fraud until after the election.

The Obama campaign's general counsel, Robert Bauer, says the FBI should instead be investigating those who have lodged complaints of voter registration fraud against groups like ACORN. Bauer contends that concerns about voter registration fraud are "manufactured allegations" being used to intimidate and disenfranchise low-income voters...