Rhode IslandÃ¢ÂÂs Republicans Deeply Split Ahead of Senate Primary
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Few incumbents have been as besieged in this yearÃ¢ÂÂs campaign season as moderate Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who faces a threatening challenge from conservative Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey in the Sept. 12 primary.
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Louisiana Republicans split over John McCain, the winner of state caucuses, and Mike Huckabee, who narrowly won the state primary. This weekend the rivals will have another chance to snare delegates to the national convention.
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While the 2008 presidential campaign  grabs most of the headlines, Republicans hope to buck the odds  on another front -- the U.S. Senate, where last year they  narrowly lost control to the Democrats.
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Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking &amp;#151; each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
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Arizona Republicans in a crowded House primary denounced the national GOP Tuesday for taking sides in the race. "They're idiots," one candidate said.
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Mitt Romney and John McCain traded attacks in a state that could produce a Republican front-runner before a virtual national primary next week.
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Six Republican candidates, one strikingly jumbled GOP race and a ton at stake in the heat of the primary season.
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A moderate Republican Senator is under threat from a conservative challenger on a day of primaries in the US.
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Arizona Republicans in a crowded House primary lashed out at the national GOP Tuesday for taking sides in the race. "They're idiots," one candidate said.
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Democrats and Republicans swapped a pair of US Senate seats in Tuesday&#39;s elections as they battled for control of a sharply divided US Congress, according to television network projections.
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The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
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Soon after Sen. Joe Lieberman's primary defeat in Connecticut, Rhode Island Democrat Jennifer Lawless taunted her primary rival, Rep. James Langevin, with a new Web site &#151; http://www.LangevinEqualsLieberman.com
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U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island held a tight lead Tuesday over a conservative Republican primary challenger, fueling GOP hopes to keep Senate control.
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A string of political setbacks has damaged Republicans' hopes of regaining the Senate majority next year and increased the likelihood Democrats might expand their razor-thin margin.
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An increasingly older bloc of Republican senators in New York State is desperate to hang on to a two-seat majority.
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As they plot to win back the House in the 2008 election, Republicans have vowed to wage an aggressive challenge next year against freshman Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, who last year unseated veteran Republican Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. in southern FloridaÃ¢ÂÂs highly competitive 22nd District.
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The recent midterm elections dealt the already-fading New England Republican an especially strong blow.