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 Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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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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President Bush added another stroke of Republican red to the electoral map by winning Iowa on Friday, underscoring the GOP's gains as well as the political problems that loom for Democrats in a shifting Midwest.
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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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From the moderate suburbs of Delaware to the rural, conservative valleys of eastern Tennessee, House Republican opponents of President Bush's latest Iraq war plan cut across the GOP's ideological and regional spectrum.
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In a sharp change from just two months ago, Republicans are gaining a commanding position in the race for control of the US House and Senate.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Texas
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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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WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders, unveiling their proposal to revamp the government&#39;s intelligence operations, placed much more emphasis Friday on beefing up border control and law-enforcement powers than has the Senate.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the Republican-boosting Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay but threw out part, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
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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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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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House Republicans have inserted language into legislation revamping the U.S. intelligence system that would allow  the Homeland Security  secretary to waive any federal law interfering with construction of a 14-mile anti-immigration fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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For years, Republicans could count on Rep. Jerry Weller winning the 11th Congressional District that meanders from the suburban sprawl south of Chicago to the farmland of central Illinois.
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Rasmussen Reports - On Friday, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to build a 700-mile barrier along the Mexican border, bowing to public opinion as an election draws near. With most Democrats voting against the measure and all but one Republican in favor of it, a partisan distinction is starting to emerge. That may contribute to a somewhat less discouraging political environment for the GOP this fall, but Republicans are still facing a difficult set of issues.