New GOP Senate Hopeful in Hawaii Has Little Time to Work With
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The Hawaii Republican Party on Monday tapped state Rep. Cynthia Thielen as the new Republican nominee against Democratic Sen. Daniel K. Akaka.
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A spokesman for the Idaho Republican said the senator has all but abandoned the notion of trying to finish his term.
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Republicans will play defense in this fall's state legislative races to avoid a "tsunami" that could alter the political landscape in statehouses around the country, the head of the GOP's legislative campaign committee said Wednesday.
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The US island state of Hawaii has been hit by a political earthquake, turning the tropical paradise into a new battleground just days ahead of the country's presidential election.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's potential Republican challengers are already battling over third-party ballot lines, and they have yet to get through the GOP primary.
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The hotly contested race to fill  Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone  who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting  trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide  bombers.
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Time is quickly waning before SaturdayÃ¢ÂÂs primary for the 10 Democratic candidates in HawaiiÃ¢ÂÂs strongly Democratic-leaning 2nd District to make their appeals to voters.
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The onetime GOP frontrunner's strategy of sitting out the early primaries now appears to have big risks
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Not enough "star" power for Fred Thompson in a GOP presidential field that includes some of his friends? Whatever the case, the actor and former Tennessee senator is considering getting into the 2008 race.
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The Republican candidate in a disputed election was sworn in Friday as the newest member of the Kentucky Senate, even though a judge ruled she did not meet the state's residency requirements. One GOP senator threatened to resign in protest.
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Fong became a US senator in 1959 when Hawaii was admitted as a state. The Republican served from 1959 until 1977.
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Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, best known for his advocacy on behalf of the military, launched a longshot bid for the presidency Thursday in this early voting state.
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HawaiiÃ¢ÂÂs reputation as a Democratic-leaning Ã¢ÂÂblueÃ¢ÂÂ state was confirmed in SaturdayÃ¢ÂÂs primary elections, which featured closely contested Democratic primaries for the Senate and the 2nd District that drew substantially more voters than did the much lower-profile Republican contests.
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Maryland is a state where politicians get elected and tend to settle in. But Tuesday's party primaries are the first step in a dramatic reordering of the political hierarchy, one that will mean a new U.S. senator for the first time in decades and could result in new faces in every statewide.........
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Making a major detour on the campaign trail, Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday night will rally voters in Hawaii where just two Republicans have ever won the state in a presidential race.
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With key staff resignations and dwindling cash, the Republican hopeful tries to keep his campaign from imploding
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The GOP tries to regain control in a state that hasn't seen a Republican governor in 20 years.