Campaign update: Lincoln, Sestak, and Steelman pushes back

A tea party organizer wants Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) seat.

Sestak staffing up.

In other staffing-up-in-Pennsylvania news, Gerlach challenger Doug Pike (D) is doing the same, and with some big-name hires.

The Post profiles Creigh Deeds’s giant-slaying campaign manager.

Bloomberg leads Thompson by 22.

Democrats might actually have a candidate for Kansas’s open Senate seat. And Reps. Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt are still virtually tied in the GOP primary.

Sarah Steelman insists she’s still “serious” about Senate, despite all the signs pointing to the open 7th House district.

DeMint officially backs Rubio over Crist, calling him “the most impressive conservative leader I have met in a long time.”

Shortly after a poll showed him leading, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) sees another poll showing him trailing.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is up with another ad.