After suffering a stroke Saturday, Senator Mark Kirk ’81 (R-Ill.), was in intensive care at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill., as of Monday night. 

Cornell alumni fared well on election night, with all eight Cornellians running for Congressional seats winning or leading their elections as of 2 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Six Cornellians are making bids for U.S. Congressional seats in Tuesday's election. 

The Sun ranks the top-five most bizarre campaigns in this year's races.

This November, incumbent U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22) will face off against Republican George Phillips for the district Congressional seat. While the two candidates say they support continued Congressional funding for higher education, they differ in their approaches to the issue of hydraulic fracturing, a contentious question on campus and in the Ithaca area.  

Cornell Demo­crats and Republicans are fighting perceptions of decreased young voter turnout as they gear up for November’s mid-term elections.