Topic: U.S. Republican Party
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio lawmakers this week settled a fight over a congressional redistricting map, eliminating the possibility of a referendum vote over the issue in 2012.State lawmakers approved a new map, along with a plan to avert two primaries next ...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - For insight into the conservative Tea Party movement's battle plan in 2012, check out Joe Dugan's Google spreadsheets.Dugan, 66, a retired manufacturing executive and chairman of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, is particularly proud of the ...
Some mainstream GOP candidates might sit out 2012 races, much to the delight of incumbent Democrats.Some mainstream GOP candidates might sit out 2012 races, much to the delight of incumbent Democrats.The tea party is throwing a snag into Republican plans for a ...
For months now, Democrats have been bludgeoning Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Joe Heck with familiar and tiresome rhetoric to frighten old people into voting for their opponents.Cutting Medicare. Cutting Social Security. Cutting their oxygen, too, I suppose.The Republicans apparently also adore ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top lawmakers are aiming to forge a deal to keep the government operating beyond next week, even as Republican measures to restrict funding for abortions and the Obama administration's health care act threaten to derail it.If Congress fails to ...
DENVER (Reuters) - Though demographic trends lean in his favor, President Barack Obama has work to do in Colorado to woo Hispanics, the voting bloc that holds the key to victory in this battleground state and, potentially, nationwide.Strong support from Latinos helped ...
He’ll make it interesting, but GOP voters will find Romney the better bet to beat President Obama.He’ll make it interesting, but GOP voters will find Romney the better bet to beat President Obama.It's hard to ignore Newt Gingrich’s return from the dead ...
Rick Santorum continues to champion social values as the key to winning the GOP presidential nominationRick Santorum continues to champion social values as the key to winning the GOP presidential nomination. Despite polling in the single digits in early caucus state Iowa, ...
Support for the conservative Tea Party is slipping across America, even in areas that a year ago swept the movement's first lawmakers to power in a devastating blow for Democrats, a new poll says.And in a worrying sign for Republicans ahead of ...
As most of the political world's attention is captured by the circus of the Republican presidential primary, Barack Obama's campaign has been assiduously reactivating the formidable infrastructure that helped drive him to victory four years ago.Obama and the Democratic Party have been ...
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