Schneider: Blue-state Republicans face red hurdles
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On Tuesday, Mitt Romney becomes the first of the three leading Republicans to declare he's officially running for president.
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The Republican base has felt left out lately. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint are two senators trying to do something about that
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Republican Party leaders yesterday laid the groundwork for a possible challenge of Democrat Christine Gregoire&#39;s victory over Dino Rossi in the hand recount for governor, claiming a number of irregularities in the way King County handled ballots.
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The 17 months remaining before Election Day 2008 can bring plenty of political developments and surprises. But as things stand now, the Republicans Ã¢ÂÂ who face the challenge of defending 22 seats to the DemocratsÃ¢ÂÂ 12 Ã¢ÂÂ can count on holds in seven of those contests.
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Immigration reform is proving to be a divisive issue for the Republican Party.  But few prominent Republicans are feeling the heat like Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a fact that prompted the 2008 contender to address the issue head-on Monday.
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Governor Deval L. Patrick, facing a daunting challenge as he tries to balance his first state budget, is looking hard at the same solution that his predecessor, Mitt Romney, employed in the early difficult fiscal days of his administration: declaring war on corporate &#145;&#145;tax loopholes.&#146;&#146;
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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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Republicans grabbed early leads in several key Senate races where GOP victories could make life more difficult for Democratic Gov.
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Few constituencies are as eager for the Republican Party to falter this political season as gay-rights activists. Yet as they observe the Democratic presidential campaign and the rest of the electoral landscape, their high hopes often are mixed with frustration.
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Edged out of the closest governor's race in state history, Republican Dino Rossi urged his opponent to accept a revote, saying the uncertainty surrounding the back-and-forth election was bad for the state. Democrat Christine Gregoire's camp immediately rejected the idea as "irresponsible."
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The Republican presidential race is so unsettled that some party officials are openly talking of a scenario that seemed almost unthinkable until now: the first contested GOP convention in 60 years
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Republican governors say it's too soon to worry about the absence of a clear favorite for the GOP presidential nomination. The muddled picture could even be a blessing, some said in interviews during the weekend meeting of the National Governors Association.
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The Democrats who dominate Illinois government face a major problem: each other.
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He may be the frontrunner, but Super Tuesday proved  that the Republican constituency that matters most still hasn't bought in
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Republicans will play defense in this fall's state legislative races to avoid a "tsunami" that could alter the political landscape in statehouses around the country, the head of the GOP's legislative campaign committee said Wednesday.
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The issue is emerging as a big one in Iowaâand it could wind up pulling the GOP contenders far enough to the right to cause problems next November.
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Democrats, in their fight to win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, have set their sights on a tight race in rural Georgia where a conservative one-term Republican is battling to hold a Democratic-leaning seat.