New Map Helps GOP Tighten Grip on Texas
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Tuesday's election turned Texas Democrats' political landscape from bleak to barren. A new redistricting map pushed through by Republicans helped the GOP gain a 21-11 advantage over Democrats in the state's congressional delegation, up from the current 16-16 split and the first GOP majority since Reconstruction.
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By RICHARD ROSENBLATT AP Racing Writer. ``We&#39;re in Texas, and this is Texas hold &#39;em,&#39;&#39; Lukas said. ``We&#39;re all in.
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With control of the Senate in the balance, Democrats are battling an apparent Republican surge in GOP strongholds where President Bush is running strong, from the Deep South to South Dakota.
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AUSTIN, Dec. 13 -- Former congressman Ciro Rodriguez's victory in a House runoff election Tuesday in Texas not only allowed Democrats to pick up their 30th seat of the 2006 elections but served as a final rebuke to one of the architects of the Republican House majority: Tom DeLay.
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Moving to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates.
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Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they've made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.
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House Republicans approved a party rules change Wednesday that could allow Majority leader Tom DeLay to retain his leadership post if he is indicted by a Texas grand jury on state political corruption charges.
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Voters in recent surveys are more frequently describing themselves as Republicans, a shift that could affect November elections up and down the ticket if it continues.
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UNDATED Republicans have strengthened their grip on southern state legislatures. But Democrats gained enough in other parts of the country for an almost-even party split.
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WASHINGTON - US House Republicans demonstrated their loyalty to Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land on Wednesday. The lawmakers changed a party rule that would have cost DeLay his leadership post if
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The Republican Party retained control of the US Senate after yesterday&#39;s election by picking up seats in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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WESLACO, Tex. -- On the front line of securing the nation's borders, the day after the collapse of a major overhaul of the nation's immigration laws was business as usual -- but better.
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Republican strategists hope a volatile electorate will save the party from congressional losses in 2008 that appear possible due to a string of setbacks.
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WASHINGTON - An electoral battlefield map half its original size is prompting President Bush and challenger John Kerry to alter their campaign strategies and reallocate resources in the home stretch to the Nov. 2 election...
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ROMERO, Texas  - U.S. 54, a two-lane highway that slices through this desolate corner of the Texas Panhandle, is a busy shortcut for commercial trucks hauling loads between the Mexican border near El Paso and points in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.
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