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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. It is often referred to as the Grand Old Party or the GOP.
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...over Palin has become a proxy for the larger question of her party's future. "She is the most popular speaker in the Republican Party," said Katon Dawson, who heads the South Carolina GOP. "The first impression of Sarah Palin is that she is a Republican warrior...
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New Kerala
...—(AP) - Add Steve Lonegan's name to the list of candidates running for governor in New Jersey. The former Bogota mayor will announce his campaign during a news conference in Edison Monday afternoon. The conservative unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination...
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Home News Tribune
...at Palm Desert Country Club, 77800 California Dr., Palm Desert. The featured speaker is Faye Palin, mother-in-law of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The cost is $40; or $75 per couple. For reservations, call 771-3815. You must be...
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The Desert Sun
...CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Last weekend, 18 days after Barack Obama decisively defeated their candidate for president, a mostly Republican crowd of self-described conservatives received their first introduction to someone many prominent members of the GOP think...
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Baton Rouge Business Report
...the practice "a powerful symbol of auto industry excess." Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, who is described as a moderate Republican, told Automotive News that "management, workers and investors are going to have to make sacrifices if they truly want to turn...
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The Car Connection
...Meanwhile, I think it would shatter the GOP for a generation — and I would still be for it! The Democrats could, with Republican help, use that year to plot a ginormous overhaul of the tax code, closing loopholes, simplifying it, even raising tax rates, and...
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The Corner
...-- Republicans will have control of Arizona state government soon as Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano moves to Washington, D.C., to become head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. President-elect Barack Obama is to make the formal announcement of...
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KPHO Phoenix
...their kids, then they should vote for the party that is pro-family, anti-abortion, and for traditional values. That's the Republican Party. A vote for Democrats is a vote for people who want a perverted culture for your children. 8) One of the important reasons...
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Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
...The bailout was due to failed government central economic planning. Granted, that wasn't the unions fault. It wasn't the Republicans either. Trace it right back to the Clinton White House. It's a complicated situation but ignoring the facts won't solve a...
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The Hill
...dollars for public schools and aid to the needy in return for a tripling of the vehicle license fee, but the plan died in a near party-line vote. "I don't know at what point this game of chicken ends," said Larry Gerston, a San Jose State University political...
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Inside Bay Area
Last Week - About U.S. Republican Party
...Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Monday that if the GOP is to get back on track its must regain the confidence of U.S. voters. The former Arkansas governor said Republicans have lost their small-government mentality, CNN reported. People...
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Webindia123
...votes, which translates to a margin of victory of about two-tenths of 1 percentage point. That is well within the threshold set by Virginia law that allows the trailing candidate to request a recount if the margin is less than 1 percentage point. Read more:...
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Democratic Underground
...in appearances, writings, or quotes in the following outlets: Thirteen appearances on Fox News Four columns posted on DickMorris.com Two columns for The Hill One quote for a Newsmax.com article, the entirety of which was about Morris' claim that a GOPTrust.com...
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Media Matters for America
...is wonderful to have liberals tell Republicans how to be losers! The NYT and other media got McCain nominated as a middle of the road, fence jumping and wishy washy Republican. That mode turned off everyone including the Democrats that had some sense and did...
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The Politico
...we are twenty years later, with FDR and JFK even further in the rearview mirror - and yet Weigel wants to chalk up the Republican Party's horrible showing in these regions to mindless "tribal voting" among Catholic Democrats? This is self-deception, and it...
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The Atlantic
...working with only one Republican in town — the governor. "Post-partisan was the governor plus the Democrats," said Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. "He threw away the opportunity to work with us and establish a good working relationship in 2007 by not even...
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Miami Herald
...is slated to speak at next year’s CPAC. (CNN) – If the Republican Party wants to get back on track, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says GOP leaders must first restore voters' confidence in the government. "People will forgive you for being a...
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CNN
...be an eye opener, not an applause gatherer. “There’s this sort of growing, I guess branch or whatever, within the Republican party who don’t want to hear anything about some of the, say, traditional values issues. They say we shouldn’t be talking about those,...
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GordonUnleashed
...N.H. (AP) - Four lawmakers are competing to become New Hampshire's House Republican leader. Republicans are meeting Monday night to choose among former Speaker Gene Chandler of Bartlett and Reps. Fran Wendelboe of New Hampton, John Reagan of Deerfield and...
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WCAX
...14, 2008 | The Republican Party is now licking the wounds from its second consecutive electoral "thumpin'," to use the outgoing president's memorable morning-after phrase from November 2006. Just three years ago, the GOP controlled the presidency, the House...
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Salon
Last Month - About U.S. Republican Party
...now are Democrats the same as in 2004. But Republicans dropped from 49 percent in 2004 to 45 percent now. Former Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Bakersfield, said the real effect of this years surge in voters including 1 million statewide in the last month and a half...
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Bakersfield.com
...where to send my donation for helping individuals fight your hatefull divide-the-nation mentality. Americans, fight the Republican slime machine by donating at http://www.perrielloforcongress.com/ Republicans like Dole in NC and Bachmann in Minnesota also...
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MSNBC
...the worst in our society." "From TampaBays10: The head of the Hillsborough GOP, David Storck, distributed an email from a Republican Party volunteer saying the voters are a threat. That's because, as the volunteer says in the email, he sees "car loads of black...
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This is going to be BIG
Counting down to Election Day, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation's first black president as the epic campaign draws to a close against a backdrop of economic crisis and lingering war. John McCain, the battle-scarred warrior,
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The Seattle Times
...- Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday. "Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin. The Republican vice presidential...
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MSNBC
...campaign for the presidency of the United States is moving into its final three days. Republican candidate John McCain trying to gain support in crucial eastern states like Virginia where he has to win there to have any chance of becoming president. Democratic...
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Radio Australia
...with their lives are just as likely to be undecided or to vote for a third-party candidate as to support Obama. In contrast to Republicans, Democrats who are highly satisfied with their lives express only a modest increase in their preference for their party's...
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Gallup
..."a vulgar expression" Wednesday while discussing Barack Obama's voting record in Illinois. While campaigning for John McCain, Boehner said Obama's failure to vote yes or no 129 times while a state lawmaker opting instead to vote "present" meant he was a "chickens---." Boehner...
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CBS News
...other sign handed out to supporters read “Florida is Palin Country,” but those signs were neither paid for by the Republican National Committee nor the McCain campaign. In small print, the signs were stamped with the line “Paid for and authorized by Putnam...
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PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science
...it is unlikely that Baca would lose his seat on a Republican year, it is even less likely on a year where the polls are trending away from the GOP. (Thanks to unfair U.S. House Districts, which will NOT be any better if Prop. 11 passes). That said, it must...
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FlashReport