...rank-and-file that he's committed to conservative values. Schwarzenegger's nod could exacerbate concerns about McCain among the party establishment. Schwarzenegger also is taking heat from state Republicans who argue he's been too willing to bend to the wishes...
...knew all that. Knowing that a third successive special election defeat would be interpreted by some as a trend, national Republican Party officials pulled out all the stops to keep Democrats from winning Tuesday's contest in Mississippi's 1st District, called...
..."I think our success was marked by holding the loss to two seats," Seifert said. The last-minute infusion of state Republican Party spending helped in some legislative races, but Democrats and supporting groups still outspent Republicans in many districts,...
...— relaxing its windfall production profit tax. Senate blocks plan to add oil company tax WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked a proposal to tax oil industry windfall profits. With gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon, Senate Democrats wanted the...
...in Congress must disassociate themselves from the President on key conservative issues. They must demonstrate that the Republican Party is the true conservative Party rather than the Bush Party which it has been branded. Even more alarming is that the Republican...
...is measured by PCI, Partisan Consistency Index, the difference between the highest and lowest vote percentages won by the party’s candidates. Historically, Pennsylvania commanded a 75% Republican TLI, while Democrats mobilized only 60% of their registered...
...the only question is how many more seats the GOP will lose in November. For many conservatives, the priority is steering the party back on what they view as the proper long-term course by reestablishing their ideological purity. They believe (though moderates...
...Helms toyed with the idea of forming a third party in 1975. Helms abandoned the idea when he found his man in the Republican Party: California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Helms' political organization saved Reagan's career during the 1976 North Carolina GOP primary...
...some other Christian denomination -- three in five Democrats and nearly three-quarters of Republicans. Nearly half of Republicans describe themselves as white, born-again Christians. President Bush carried Missouri in both 2000 and 2004, and Republicans in...
...House. In a major upset, a Democratic state legislator, Kay Hagan, unseated Sen. Elizabeth Dole, one of the biggest names Republican Party. The former Cabinet secretary had been criticized for spending little time in recent years in her home state. In Virginia,...