In Rhode Island, a GOP Moderate Fights Conservative Challenge
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WEST GREENWICH, R.I. _ Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee picked his way among the picnic tables beside Mishnock Pond on Sunday afternoon, grabbing hands as if they were lifelines.
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Republican hopes to advance a more conservative agenda in the Legislature picked up steam with key victories Tuesday in Arizona&#39;s handful of competitive districts.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski faced a primary challenge Tuesday from three fellow Republicans who say she is not conservative enough and have denounced her rise to power as blatant nepotism.
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Conservative Republican challengers prevailed against moderate incumbents in key legislative primary elections across Virginia yesterday, setting the stage for a bruising fall election in which Democrats will try to take over the GOP-controlled General Assembly by capturing the political middle.
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Few incumbents have been as besieged in this yearÃ¢ÂÂs campaign season as moderate Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who faces a threatening challenge from conservative Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey in the Sept. 12 primary.
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U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island held a tight lead Tuesday over a conservative Republican primary challenger, fueling GOP hopes to keep Senate control.
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GREENVILLE, S.C.  - Democratic state education  superintendent Inez Tenenbaum is giving Republicans an  unexpectedly tough battle for a U.S. Senate seat in  conservative South Carolina.
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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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Conservative candidates like Mike Huckabee find themselves increasingly out of step with the state's moderate voters
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It's not enough for U.S. Republican  presidential candidates to be conservatives. They've got to be  bigger and better conservatives to win the hearts of right-wing  America.
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The U.S. Republican Party is presenting a moderate image at its national convention but conservatives who dominate the party say they are happy to stay in the background, confident that President Bush will take care of their interests if he wins the election.
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Republicans who are standing up to Bush range from conservatives to moderates.
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From the moderate suburbs of Delaware to the rural, conservative valleys of eastern Tennessee, House Republican opponents of President Bush's latest Iraq war plan cut across the GOP's ideological and regional spectrum.
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National Republican Party officials on Wednesday hailed Sen. Lincoln ChafeeÃ¢ÂÂs victory in TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Rhode Island primary as a triumph for the party, describing the center-left incumbentÃ¢ÂÂs nomination as crucial to their hopes of holding the seat in a state that typically has a strong Democratic lean.
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"Primary Mistake" (Sentinel, 212 pages. $25.95), by Steve Laffey: There are a lot of possible reasons Steve Laffey lost last year's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island against former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Laffey points the finger in one direction &#151; at his own party.
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House Republicans want to barnstorm the country to pick apart the  moderate Senate plan that Bush supports.
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By Peter B. Lord  State legislators, concerned about decreasing insurance coverage and rising premiums for houses along Rhode Island's coastline, have scheduled a meeting for 4 p.m.