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GOP advisers: Giuliani leans toward a Senate race...which he has since beaten. He also withdrew from the presidential race a year ago, lacking support for the GOP nomination. A third Republican adviser said Giuliani is expected to give Rick Lazio, the only announced Republican in the race,... In this article: Rudy Giuliani, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Andrew Cuomo, New York City, Rick Lazio, and Marist College |
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washingtonpost.com | 21 hours ago
To survive, the GOP needs a good in-house fight
...winner has been sabotaged by a primary contest's leftover wounds is remarkably few. The fear among some Republican pros now is that as the GOP base has shrunk and become more monolithically conservative, ideological purity may replace broad...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Ford, George W. Bush, Robert A. Taft, George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, New Hampshire, and Jimmy Carter
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AP Online | 1 day ago
GOP governors push for 2010 party rebirth
...(AP) - Thrilled with twin victories this month, Republican governors are looking to lead a party-wide resurgence in 2010 and shape the GOP for years to come. Republicans boast of a strong crop of gubernatorial candidates who could be future...
In this article: Haley Barbour, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and Ronald Reagan
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AP Online | 1 day ago
GOP senator backs off threat to read health bill
...- Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether...
In this article: Tom Coburn, GOP, Washington, Oklahoma, and Associated Press
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NPR | 1 day ago
GOP Governors Meeting Decidely Upbeat
...conference, says that's not a concern. He says New Jersey's Christie is moderate by national GOP standards, but he still got 94 percent of the total Republican vote, according to exit polls. As for Virginia, exit polls there showed that...
In this article: Chris Christie, Haley Barbour, Barack Obama, New Jersey, and Virginia
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NPR | 1 day ago
GOP Uses Mammogram Study To Attack Health Bill
...they deeply care about and feel that they and their physicians need some discretion. Bob Blendon, Harvard School Of Public Health The GOP has seized on the uproar over the revised recommendations for breast cancer screening, forcing the...
In this article: Breast cancer, Jean Schmidt, GOP, Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, and Medicare
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
As 2010 looms, GOP lays its bets on opposing health-care reform
If Republicans believe Democrats would be better off politically if the health care bill fails, they ask, why have members of the GOP worked so hard to defeat it? White House officials believe that, if a bill passes, the political...
In this article: Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, White House, GOP, On the merits, and Beau Biden
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
After Obama: Obama's Asia trip, Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue,' third party hopes, the Republican image
...worship the Bible and the Second Amendment but who have little tolerance for diversity? The idea that the GOP is in trouble because it hasn't done enough of this kind of pandering seems like a brain-dead take on the whole issue to me. What am...
In this article: Barack Obama, Reihan Salam, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Mark Levin
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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 referred to as the Grand Old Party or the GOP. Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party quickly surpassed the Whig Party as the principal opposition to the Democratic Party. It first came to power in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency and presided over the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Today, the party supports a conservative platform (from an American political perspective), with further foundations in supply-side fiscal policies, and social conservatism.
The Republican Party is currently the second largest party with 55 million registered voters as of 2004, encompassing roughly one-third of the electorate. The current U.S. President, George W. Bush, is the 19th Republican to hold that office. Republicans currently fill a minority of seats in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, hold a minority of state governorships, and control a minority of state legislatures.
The party's nominee for President in the upcoming 2008 election is Senator John McCain of Arizona, and the party's nominee for Vice-President is Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.
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- Neoconservatism
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- Social conservatism
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