Republican '08 hopefuls seek distance from Bush
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For lower-tier candidates, bashing Bush may seem like the only option. Top-tier candidates may find it too risky now to go negative against the president.
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His White House away from the White House is as likely this year to be in Pennsylvania as Texas, but President Bush doesn't mind. With his re-election campaign winding down, the rancher-president thinks fence-mending is more urgent up north.
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Hurricane Katrina is becoming a potent political symbol for 2008 White House hopefuls, two years after ravaging New Orleans and blemishing President George W. Bush&#39;s record.
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Congressional Republicans hitched their star to President Bush on Monday, using their time at the GOP convention to ask voters to ensure they stay in office to help bring about the president's second-term agenda.
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Some welcome it, some wish it would go away. Either way, relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks are closely following the Republican National Convention that opens here to formally nominate George W. Bush for president.
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Republicans who are standing up to Bush range from conservatives to moderates.
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For Democrats, heâs an easy target. But for Republicans, addressing his departure is tricky political terrain. A rundown of how the 2008 field handled the attorney generalâs resignation.
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas, a two-term U.S. senator whose presidential campaign failed to draw money or widespread support from an intended base of religious conservatives, dropped out of the 2008 White House race on Friday.
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While the 2008 presidential campaign  grabs most of the headlines, Republicans hope to buck the odds  on another front -- the U.S. Senate, where last year they  narrowly lost control to the Democrats.
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Three senior Republicans from Ohio who are leaving Congress have not cited their minority status as a major factor in their decisions, but the bleak prospect of losing in 2008 is there beneath the surface.
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With the resignation of key staffers and cash reserves dwindling, the Republican hopeful tries to keep his campaign from imploding
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The crowded field for the Republican nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election shrank by one on Saturday when former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore announced he was withdrawing.
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In the thick of an election campaign, President Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the U.S. must fight terrorists overseas or face them here. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, some GOP candidates are borrowing Bush's line.
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Republican partisans have a political mantra for the 2008 campaign: The political climate, they contend, canÃ¢ÂÂt possibly be as bad as it was in 2006, when the unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the national Republican Party in general cost the GOP its control of Congress and the governorsÃ¢ÂÂ offices in six states.
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California Rep. Duncan Hunter is leaving the House after 14 terms to seek the 2008 GOP presidential nomination Ã¢ÂÂ and guess what? A certain Duncan D. Hunter is running succeed him. But in a San Diego district that&#39;s virtually assured of electing the Republican nominee, a bevy of party hopefuls are lining up to block the family&#39;s succession plans in the 52nd District.
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The Republican candidate hasn't been able to muster much support for his bid within the crowded field.
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Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend &#151; growing opposition to President Bush.