GOP hopes voter anger cuts both ways
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Republican strategists hope a volatile electorate will save the party from congressional losses in 2008 that appear possible due to a string of setbacks.
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As Congress heads for the exits to campaign, Republicans are maneuvering to pass a pre-election immigration agenda that falls short of their get-tough rhetoric but is enough, they hope, to satisfy voters upset about illegal immigrants.
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Divided results mean fight may go beyond Super Tuesday as questions arise over ideological path
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Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.
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Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.
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Worried that their heavy-bombing, hard-wired, stiff-suited image could lose them younger generation votes in next year's elections, US Republicans are trying to reboot their act: they want to blog their way to victory.
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WASHINGTON - With massive get-out-the-vote drives, Republicans made a final push Tuesday to tighten their grip on control of Congress while Democrats looked for a surge of support that would give them a shot of at least taking back the Senate.
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A few senators from President Bush's own party may determine the outcome of an Iraq war vote this week that would deal a blow to him. These Republicans, facing re-election in 2008, must weigh party loyalty and voters' anger at an unpopular war.
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Republican lawmakers are hanging with their leadership for now, but social conservatives needed for the election are raising an outcry
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Tallies are still being counted, but it appears that voter have dealt the president a stinging rebuke.
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MONROE CITY, Indiana  - In a dozen districts   across the U.S. heartland, voter unhappiness has imperiled   Republicans, setting the stage for what could be the biggest   anti-incumbent midterm election since 1994.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Two weeks before a tight U.S.  presidential election, tension among bitterly divided voters is  translating into a barrage of attacks on political targets that  can't talk back - yard signs.
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Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend &#151; growing opposition to President Bush.
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Analysis: Scandals like the one that took down the senator from Idaho have demoralized the Republican base ahead of the 2008 campaign
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Hurricane Katrina convulsed the nation with its massive destruction. Now Democrats believe it could wreak havoc again in a tide of voter resentment that could sweep Republicans from power.
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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Immigration reform is proving to be a divisive issue for the Republican Party.  But few prominent Republicans are feeling the heat like Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a fact that prompted the 2008 contender to address the issue head-on Monday.