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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The Texas congressman rallies his online supporters to keep giving money, and to stage a march on the nation's capital to show they mean business. He has only 16 of the 1,191 delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nod.
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By Neil Strassman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 6--Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging conservation effort to preserve and restore the Trinity River basin from its North Texas headwaters south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider a Texas congressional map that could give Republicans six more seats in Congress in upcoming elections and help the GOP protect its majority.
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Variety - HOURS AFTER John Kerry conceded to President Bush, a map began making the email rounds that renamed the great crimson mass of Republican states as its own breakaway nation, "Jesusland."
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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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Whether it's flying to small towns to help Republicans raise money or engineering a redistricting plan giving his party control of the Texas congressional delegation, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay delivers for his members. Now the members have delivered for him.
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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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Republicans narrowed the gap in party allegiance among registered voters during the past election year.
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A look at the lower end of I-95, the interstate highway that links Canada and the Florida Keys along the East Coast, shows why Republicans expect to hold onto the Senate in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; House Republicans changed a party rule Wednesday to allow Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas to remain as majority leader even if indicted in an investigation of campaign finance violations in his home state.
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With the US presidential election less than two months away, the Republicans have adopted an aggressive new campaigning tactic that not only seems to be working, but has an element of fun to it as well.
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Colorado is on the fringes of the playing field in the presidential campaign, a Republican-leaning state that Democratic Sen. John Kerry has in his sights because of its weak economy and growing Hispanic population.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Bush has strengthened his hold on some states recently in play, leaving Florida, once again, in a pivotal swing position. By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 10 -- Almost everywhere nationwide, the midterm elections are but a distant memory, supplanted by Christmas shopping and holiday parties. But here, candidates are still battling to determine the makeup of the House and the fate of Texas's first Hispanic Republican elected to...