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Politics: Republican Campaigns

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Washington Post (kudos Steve A.)

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest attacking Democratic candidates over personal issues and local controversies. Combing through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on De

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CNN poll

President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections. 55% said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies

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CNN

Most Americans are angry about "something" when it comes to how the country is run, and they are more likely than in previous years to vote for a challenger this November, a new poll suggests. A majority of Americans surveyed -- and a hi

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New York Times

State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., the Republican nominee for US Senate in New Jersey, says he is so frustrated with the Bush adminstration's handling of the war in Iraq that he is pushing for something that few Republicans have supported.

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Capitol Hill Blue

The answers were so good, Republican candidates wanted to use them as their own. The embarrassment was at least 7 did. Republicans in House races copied their party's talking points and included parts of the answers as their own for an AARP sur

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AP

Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.

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AP

Sen. Rick Santorum drew parallels between World War II and the current war against "Islamic fascism," saying they both require fighting a common foe in multiple countries. "We're at war with Islamic fascism," said Santorum,

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LA Times

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos lashed out at the White House for not having set up a long-promised meeting with executives of the Big Three automakers, which are being squeezed by high healthcare costs and shrinking market share.

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LA Times

[Chickenhawks coming home to roost.] "I've been carrying the bucket when it comes to the war," Shays said in September. But facing an antiwar Democratic opponent in a tough midterm election race, Shays is starting to express reservation

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NY Times

A new poll shows that fewer Americans view the Republican Party as “friendly to religion” than a year ago, with the decline particularly steep among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants — constituencies at the core of the Republicans’ conserva

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USA Today

Steve Laffey boasts of the school crossing guards he fired, the senior center square dancing he curtailed, even the taxes he raised to balance this city's books. It's not the usual path to the U.S. Senate. Campaigning in the nation's s

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Nashua Telegraph(NH)

A Republican candidate for this area's congressional seat said Wednesday that the US government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In an editorial board interview with the Telegraph on Wednesday, the candidate, Mary Maxwell

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Washington Post

In a moment of unusual candor for a veteran senator fighting for his political life, Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) offered this blunt self-assessment a few months ago: "I can self-destruct in one sentence," he told supporters. "Sometimes in o

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AP

Even though he's not running for re-election this year, President Bush knows just what he would focus on if he were: the economy and taxes. As Republicans face an increasingly tough political outlook, in part because of Bush's sagging appr

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Washington Post

Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians appear likely to provide a major boost for Democrat

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AP

Republicans will play defense in this fall's state legislative races to avoid a "tsunami" that could alter the political landscape in statehouses around the country, the head of the GOP's legislative campaign committee said.

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Reuters

The fan looks like the epitome of the young, white, socially conservative, working-class voters who have been key backers of Republicans in the last decade. But with US soldiers dying in Iraq, war raging in the Middle East and gasoline prices soaring

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AP

Bill Burton, a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman, said: "With a mess in Iraq, gas prices at new highs and public confidence in the White House and Congress at new lows, it's no surprise that Republicans are on defense at

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AP

The White House was circumspect when asked whether Bush would support Republican Alan Schlesinger in the three-way fall contest that includes Democratic nominee Ned Lamont and three-term incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman.

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