CQPolitics Ratings Show a Tough Road to a GOP Senate Recapture
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It would be hard to accuse Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, of overstating the case for a GOP return to the majority in the 2008 elections.
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The news of Senator Tim Johnsonâs hospitalization highlighted the fragility of the Democratsâ new majority.
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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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Commentary: Conservative Beltway pundits have been panning the candidate's first days, but their opinion isn't what counts the most
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The race to lead the Senate Republican campaign committee and step into senior party circles intensified Wednesday, with both sides claiming more than half of the votes needed to win the post.
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The Republican presidential field appears to face a tough general election fight in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Saturday.
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Rasmussen Reports - Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is one incumbent whose campaign seems unimpaired by the malaise afflicting the GOP this election year.
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Political conservatives have their best opportunity in years to push successfully for changes to taxes, entitlements and the courts &#151; but they face a special set of obstacles.
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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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CQPolitics.comÃ¢ÂÂs list of tossup Senate races continues to grow: The rating on the Tennessee contest for the seat of two-term Republican incumbent Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, has been moved to No Clear Favorite from Leans Republican.
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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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Rasmussen Reports - The Tennessee Senate race is getting closer and Rasmussen Reports now classifies the Corker-Ford race as a &quot;Toss-Up.&quot; Previously, it had been rated &quot;Leans Republican.&quot; This reduces the number of states in the Republican or Leans Republican categories to 49. Forty-five (45) Senate seats are favored to remain in&nbsp;Democratic hands while 6 are now in the Toss-Up category. (see State-by-State Summary).
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The GOP tries to regain control in a state that hasn't seen a Republican governor in 20 years.
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Democrats are facing the same obstacle that stymied Republicans when they had control: paralyzingly thin margins in the Senate.
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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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Republican partisans have a political mantra for the 2008 campaign: The political climate, they contend, canÃ¢ÂÂt possibly be as bad as it was in 2006, when the unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the national Republican Party in general cost the GOP its control of Congress and the governorsÃ¢ÂÂ offices in six states.
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ColoradoÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District has been Republican Ã¢ÂÂredÃ¢ÂÂ for decades. But continued debate over Republican Rep. Marilyn MusgraveÃ¢ÂÂs staunch social-issues conservatism, and the emergence of Democratic state Rep. Angie Paccione as a solid challenger, have prompted CQPolitics.com to change its rating on this yearÃ¢ÂÂs 4th District contest to Leans Republican from Republican Favored.