(CNSNews.com) - New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton has more than a 40 to one campaign cash advantage over the most significant challenger to her Senate seat. For that reason and several others, Clinton is expected to win re-election this year in landslide fashion. However, more New Yorkers still want her to remain where she is, rather than run for president in 2008.

(CNSNews.com) - Going into September, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean, Jr. was either leading polls or in statistical ties with his Democratic rival, Sen. Bob Menendez. At the time, Menendez was fighting through a storm of allegations and a federal probe of wrongdoing involving grant money steered to a nonprofit organization renting a house he owned.

(CNSNews.com) - New Jersey voters apparently were more concerned about Iraq than they were about corruption on Tuesday, when they sent Democrat incumbent Sen. Robert Menendez back to Washington.The contest was characterized by Menendez's pledge to "stand up to George Bush" and by Republican Tom Kean, Jr.'s attempts to remind voters that his opponent was "under federal criminal investigation.""The real issues of the state were overshadowed this year by the national concerns," said former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a liberal Republican.

(CNSNews.com) - A series of recent polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who just last month won re-election by a landslide, trailing against likely Republican challengers for the presidency in 2008.A Fox News poll of registered voters shows Clinton losing a hypothetical race against Republican Sen. John McCain 48-40, and against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Clinton trails by a nine-point margin.

(CNSNews.com) - "I am sorry that I have disappointed the citizens of the state of New Jersey who gave me this enormous trust," said New Jersey Governor James McGreevey in his farewell address to the state on Monday. He officially leaves office next week.In his last speech as governor, McGreevey, a Democrat, touted his positive accomplishments, but he did not mention the scandals that plagued his shortened term, including the alleged homosexual affair with a state employee that prompted him to resign.

(CNSNews.com) - As thousands of same-sex couples get marriage licenses in San Francisco -- by order of the Democratic mayor -- a small group of Republicans sees nothing wrong with men marrying men and women marrying women."It's a pretty basic issue. It's about equality," said Plattsburgh, N.Y., Mayor Daniel Stewart, who is openly homosexual. Plattsburgh, located along the banks of Lake Champlain near the US-Canadian border, has a population of just over 18,000.

(CNSNews.com) - A rebuke by the U.S. Senate seems to be having much more of an impact on Sen. Bob Torricelli's re-election campaign than the troubled New Jersey Democrat expected. The latest poll on the Senate race shows GOP challenger Doug Forrester soaring to a double-digit advantage over Torricelli, and now a labor group affiliated with the New Jersey AFL-CIO is throwing its support to Forrester.

(CNSNews.com) - It is a rare day when the leaders of both the Democratic and Republican Parties arrive in the same state to stump for their respective candidates in the same race. But that indicates how much importance both parties are placing on this year's U.S. Senate contest in New Jersey.

(CNSNews.com) - New Jersey Democrats have tapped three-time former Senator Frank Lautenberg - age 78 - to replace Sen. Robert Torricelli on the ballot -- that is, if they can get his name on the ballot. On Wednesday, both Democrats and Republicans were heading to New Jersey Supreme Court to present arguments for and against allowing Lautenberg's name to appear on the ballot. Republicans say state law forbids it; Democrats argue the voters' best interests should prevail.