Republicans' Campaign Platform
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Following are some of the positions in the Republican campaign platform that is expected to be approved at the party's national convention on Monday. These are the party's official position but are not binding on the presidential candidate.
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Republicans crafting the party's platform backed a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Wednesday in a sharp contrast to plans to put the party's more moderate face on display at next week's convention.
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The Republican convention is being run not only by a script, but by a score. Like the Democrats before them, Republicans have set their politics to music, a relentlessly upbeat symphony of familiar rah-rah songs meant to keep the hall pulsing with energy, viewers awake and gaps in the speechfest filled with sounds and images of a party trying to appeal to all tastes, ethnic groups and voting ages.
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Republican front-runner John McCain is trying to gain his party's presidential nomination by convincing conservatives he is one of them, without hurting support from moderate voters who have propelled his candidacy.
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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 finding that a hard-line stance on immigration resonates with a wide swath of voters.
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especially big business -- has never been monolithically Republican. Executives have been far too pragmatic for that. They have long used campaign
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THE RACE: The national presidential race for Democrats, Republicans
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Four Republicans considering running for president in 2008 courted activists Saturday and predicted GOP success in the November elections despite the party&#039;s sagging support in polls.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 21 -- For three decades, the Republican presidential nominating contest has served to unify the national party's coalition of social, economic and foreign policy conservatives in advance of a general election fight with Democrats.
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney declared his intention to run as the Republican candidate for president on a platform of family values, small government and a hard line against terrorism.
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President Bush and Republicans have gained some ground in their bid to hold onto Congress as a sustained GOP effort to portray Democrats and Iraq war critics as appeasing terrorists has swayed voters.
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NEW YORK  - It didn't take long for  prominent Republicans to take their shots at the entertainment  industry as party members gathered in Madison Square Garden for  the opening night of the GOP's four-day presidential nominating  convention Monday.
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Republican leaders are pushing for a constitutional ban on gay marriage in the GOP platform, opening a new point of contention between social conservatives and outnumbered but vocal factions fighting to give the party's statement of principles a more moderate tone.
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Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they've made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in New Hampshire.
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The eight Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential nomination have staged a series of long-distance exchanges over who among them deserves support from the partyÃ¢ÂÂs crucial conservative constituency. And a debate in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday night allowed them to get in each othersÃ¢ÂÂ faces over this crucial issue of political positioning.