GOP rivals back tax, spending cuts in SC
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Republican presidential rivals backed a blend of tax and spending cuts Thursday night to head off an election-year recession they generally agreed is avoidable. "We should reduce taxes on middle-income Americans immediately," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said in a debate in the run-up to presidential primaries in Michigan and South Carolina, two states where unemployment exceeds the national average.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Conservative South Carolina's bare-knuckle politics greeted candidates in the wild Republican White House race Wednesday, after Mitt Romney dodged a knockout blow in Michigan.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in South Carolina
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Next stop: South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, Jan. 19.
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FLORENCE, South Carolina  - Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee touted their economic credentials in South Carolina on Friday on the eve of the South's first vote for U.S. presidential nominees, while rival Mitt Romney pressed his advantage out West in Nevada.
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Gary Younge visits voters in South Carolina's most Republican county
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Republicans launched a counteroffensive yesterday against a Democrat-inspired Congressional Budget Office analysis, saying the study actually shows that President Bush&#39;s tax cuts have reduced the overall tax burden for middle-income ...
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The two candidates vying to fill South Carolina's open Senate seat both pledged Sunday to fully arm American troops in Iraq, as the Army investigates the refusal of a South Carolina-based platoon to go on a convoy mission because their trucks were unarmored.
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A federally funded group that promised flu shots on Election Day in six of South Carolina's poorest counties has drawn criticism from Republican leaders.
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U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island beat a conservative challenger in Tuesday's primary, fueling Republican hopes to keep Senate control.  Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey conceded at 10:40 p.m., the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in South Carolina
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Democratic presidential rivals called for higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on some corporations Thursday and said any thought of balancing the federal budget would have to wait.
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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican Fred Thompson were the frontrunners in South Carolina&#39;s first-in-the-South 2008 presidential primary, according to a poll Sunday.
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Republican  presidential candidates turned their attention to South  Carolina on Wednesday with their White House race as wide open  as ever with a win by Mitt Romney in Michigan.
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In an election-year bid to polish their credentials as fiscal conservatives in an election year, Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced a bill designed to force cuts in the spiraling growth of federal benefit programs while also reviving the line-item veto.
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THE RACE: The presidential primary in South Carolina for Republicans and Democrats.