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President won’t sign treaty to ban land mines...urged the White House point person to stop counting jobs that haven't been confirmed. House GOP leader John Boehner and Representative Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter... In this article: John Boehner, Edward M. Kennedy, White House, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Associated Press, and Human Rights Watch |
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New York Times | 16 hours ago
G.O.P. 'Purity' Test Could Trip Up Castle
G.O.P. 'Purity' Test Could Trip Up Castle One of the bright lights on the political horizons for Republicans in 2010 is the United States Senate seat that opened up in Delaware when Joseph R. Biden Jr. became vice president. Party leaders...
In this article: Mike Castle, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Republican National Committee, G.O.P., Tax, Party leaders, Defense of Marriage Act, Attorney General, and Beau Biden
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New York Post | November 02, 2009
VIPs' NY 'House' calls
...3, 2009 ALBANY -- Vice President Joe Biden, former GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, and robo calls from Rudy Giuliani headlined the final push in the hotly contested race for the 23rd Congressional District yesterday. Biden,...
In this article: Joe Biden, GOP, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, William Owens, Sarah Palin, and Alaska
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washingtonpost.com | October 16, 2009
From Joe to Beau?
...when he suggested that the 70-year-old Castle is by far the GOP's best candidate. Indeed, Castle is the only Republican who could possibly beat Biden. Not only has Castle run 12 statewide races; he is also a certifiable moderate, a hard...
In this article: Joe Biden, Mike Castle, Beau Biden, Barack Obama, Robin Carnahan, Daily Kos, Delaware, Bill Clinton, and Recession
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | November 16, 2009
Palin a hit in bookstores, less with voters
...only 28 percent said that she is qualified to be president. That is significantly lower than for potential 2012 GOP rivals Mitt Romney (47 percent) and Mike Huckabee (43 percent). And Palin's number is far behind two high-profile Democrats,...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Supreme Court, GOP, Stanford University, and Opinion Research Corp.
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MSNBC.com | 21 hours ago
Practically speaking, a purity test problem
...a purity test problem From NBC's Domenico MontanaroThe New York Times' Nagourney makes a good point about why that GOP purity test might be a bad idea -- for those who care about winning -- for the party. He takes a look at how it...
In this article: Mike Castle, GOP, Joe Biden, Delaware, and NBC
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NPR | November 02, 2009
GOP Rift Evident In N.Y. House Seat Race Shakeup
...the conservative movement has drifted too far outside the mainstream. "They may not have room for moderate views in the Republican Party upstate anymore," Biden said. "But let me assure you, we have room, we have room." Biden was reacting...
In this article: Dede Scozzafava, Joe Biden, Newt Gingrich, Bill Owens, Glenn Beck, and New York
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Biden campaigns for Democrat in NY House race
...FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING ALBANY, N.Y.-Vice President Joe Biden is campaigning for the Democratic candidate in a special congressional election that has suddenly become a referendum on the Republican Party. Biden is attending a rally...
In this article: Joe Biden, Bill Owens, Barack Obama, All rights reserved, E mail, Dierdre Scozzafava, New York City, and New York
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USATODAY.com | November 03, 2009
Off-year elections will test Democrats' influence
In a show of concern, the White House dispatched Obama on Sunday to campaign in New Jersey and Vice President Biden on Monday to Upstate New York, where the congressional race has become a battle over the GOP's ideology. Republican...
In this article: Jon Corzine, GOP, Barack Obama, Chris Christie, New Jersey, Joe Biden, and John McHugh
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Biden Weighs In on Upstate N.Y. Race
...feud on the Republican/conservative sides of the ticket. In Watertown for the event, The Times's Jeremy Peters notes that Mr. Biden took on his 2008 opponent in the presidential campaign, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was one of the...
In this article: Joseph R. Biden, Sarah Palin, Dede Scozzafava, Republican National Committee, Bill Owens, Washington, and Facebook
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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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