R.I., Ariz. contests highlight primaries
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An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.
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With a week before the first test of the primary season, presidential candidates are pulling out all the stops.
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MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 7 -- Only a few months ago, New Hampshire's reputation for delivering spellbinding primary elections was in danger. But if trend lines hold, a pair of contested primaries Tuesday will deliver outcomes with potentially enormous significance.
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When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules.
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One Republican presidential nomination. Two primaries.
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Republican Mitt Romney bluntly challenged his own party while John McCain and Rudy Giuliani assailed Democratic rivals as the GOP presidential hopefuls courted activists in a state that's now a player in the nomination march.
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The state is going ahead with its primary on Jan. 5, despite a penalty by the Republican National Committee that will strip it of half its delegates
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The US presidential campaign broadened its scope Sunday as top candidates set their sights on 22 states that hold primaries early next month, in the wake of US Senator Barack Obama's decisive win over Hillary Clinton in South Carolina.
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Voters will head to the polls and caucus sites Saturday in South Carolina and Nevada, contests that could propel two candidates to front-runner status in this year's wide-open presidential races.
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Lost in the fuss over next week's Super Tuesday presidential contests is the fact that the 2008 congressional campaign also has its official kickoff that day, with primaries in Illinois. Not that this event is being greeted with enthusiasm by many Republicans, who appear desperate to hold the White House to counteract the near-certain extension of the majorities Democrats won in both the Senate and the House in 2006.
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John McCain and Mitt Romney squared off in a hard-fought Florida primary Tuesday, seeking campaign momentum before the race for the Republican presidential nomination turns into a nationwide delegate chase on Feb. 5.
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ORLANDO, Jan. 28 -- The front-runners in the Florida Republican primary exchanged some of their sharpest criticisms of the campaign on Monday, with each seeking a win on Tuesday that would provide a big haul of delegates and a burst of momentum heading into a Feb. 5 mega-primary.
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When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules. One party likes to share. The other, not so much.
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The state's economic woes are the central focus for Romney, McCain, and Huckabee before Tuesday's primary.
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Barack Obama won the Georgia primary Tuesday night, the leading edge of a coast-to-coast struggle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for delegates in the grueling Democratic presidential campaign. Arizona Sen. John McCain challenged his remaining rivals for control of the Republican race.
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Florida, which held up the results of the 2000 presidential election by more than a month, holds a primary this week that many regard as a test of the state's readiness to avoid another fiasco in November.
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By ROBERT TANNER  An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.