Dems, GOP Split Iowa Senate
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Legislature has a new look, and leaders are talking about new rules on how to govern. Democrats won four seats to evenly split control of the Iowa Senate 25-25, ending a Republican majority dating back to 1996.
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Republican misgivings over President Bush's new war strategy are increasingly dividing the GOP as the Senate moves toward a showdown over the deployment of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
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White men, conservatives, evangelicals and other pivotal blocs are divided among the Republican Party's leading contenders for president, leaving the race for the 2008 GOP nomination highly fluid, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
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Republicans took over from Democrats the seat in the key battleground state of South Carolinain the Senate races Tuesday, making it even harder the uphill fight by Democrats for the Senate control.
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Rasmussen Reports - Embattled Republican Senator Conrad Burns now trails Democrat Jon Tester 43% to 50%. Tester enjoyed the same seven-point advantage in early July, right after clinching the Democratic nomination.
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Iowa Democrats voted Sunday to move their leadoff precinct caucuses to Jan. 3, the same date Republicans picked earlier this month, letting both parties continue the tradition of meeting on the same night.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split victories on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking &#151; each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
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Republicans tightened their grip on the Senate early Wednesday, dealing defeat to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota and capturing a string of seats across the South.
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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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DES MOINES -- 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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An Iowa county judge's ruling knocking down the state's same-sex marriage ban stirred up the presidential race Friday as Republicans jostled to stake out a position with the state's conservative voters in mind.
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With Republican incumbent Jim Nussle giving up his seat, northeastern Iowa has become a key battleground in the race for control of Congress
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Republicans captured a previously Democratic-held Senate seat in Georgia on Tuesday as they battled to retain control of a sharply divided US Congress, according to Fox and NBC network projections.
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Democrats are trying to pull something funny with absentee ballots, the Republicans are telling Iowa voters. No, it's just the Republicans trying to scare people out of voting, the Democrats retort.
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Polarized voters, almost perfectly divided between the two parties &#151; and the balance of power hanging on hard-fought, expensive campaigns in a few key areas. It's the story line of the 2004 presidential election, but it's also playing out in the battle for power in state legislatures, where Democratic and Republican control has probably never been so evenly divided.
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Conservative Democrats in the House are challenging their own party to do more to balance the federal budget and restrain government spending, highlighting an ideological division among Democrats that could play a big role in the party's 2008 presidential campaign.