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Gingrich woos with prospect of $2 gallon gas
Mount Pleasant Morning Sun 57 minutes ago

Okla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is dangling the prospect of gas as low as $2 a gallon if he's elected. The former House speaker has spoken in the past of gas dropping to $2.50 a gallon under a Gingrich administration. ...
Party passing on some candidates
Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 57 minutes ago

In 2008, Republicans lost Senate Districts 5 and 6, relinquishing control of the Senate for the first time in 18 years as Democrats rode the presidential election wave for Barack Obama to victory. Democrats now control the Senate 11-10. They also rule...
Getty Images 13 hours ago

CINCINNATI, OH - FEBRUARY 20: United Staes Senator Rob Portman, R-OH (L), introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), before he spoke about creating jobs and keeping taxes low to employees at Meridian... View Photo »
bucking GOP doctrine on issues like global warming ... a steady diet of civility and compromise.
SOURCE: The Week 1 month ago
Trudy Rubin: Iowa fertile ground for Xi's visit
Omaha.com 58 minutes ago

One of the most intriguing tales from China last year concerned a rebellion in the village of Wukan in the southern province of Guangdong. Residents rose en masse against the seizure of communal land by corrupt party officials who sold it to developers...
Rate that President! : Part II
The American Catholic 1 hour ago

A compromise was reached between the parties by which the Democrats accepted the electoral commission result, and the Republicans agreed that federal troops would be withdrawn from the South in 1877. Starting off thus tainted, the Hayes administration...
Palin 'believed Queen was in charge of British forces in Iraq'
Mid Day 1 hour ago

A Palin spokesman said the film -- with which Palin refused to co-operate -- "distorted, twisted and invented facts to create a false narrative". The incident can be added to a long list of policy gaffes made by Palin during her three months as the...
Getty Images 14 hours ago

CINCINNATI, OH - FEBRUARY 20: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets employees at Meridian Bioscience during a campagin stop February 20, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Romney told voters he would cut the federal... View Photo »
Two weeks from today , Florida Republicans have an opportunity to effectively end a disappointing presidential primary season and focus the nation on a pivotal general election. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the winner of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, is the candidate best pr...
SOURCE: FLA Politics 1 month ago
US Republican debate: "Oops" - watch Rick Perry's chances in presidential race disappear
YouTube Videos 3 months ago
Bachmann wants more 'transparency' in Medicaid payments
MinnPost.com 1 hour ago

It resulted in a dramatic change in the Legislature's makeup. In that year's election, the House Republican majority increased its margin from four seats to 29, while the Senate DFL majority's margin dropped from 12 seats to four. New boundaries could...
Tax Code Not Aligned With Basic Principles
The New York Times 1 hour ago

He is the author of “ The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take .” It is clear that the rising inequality of wealth and income and how the wealthy should be taxed will be major issues in the political campaign. All...

About U.S. Republican Party

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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP. Founded in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party quickly surpassed the Whig Party as the principal... Full Article

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