States poised to flout GOP primary rules
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Michigan officially crashed the early primary party on Tuesday, setting up showdowns with both political parties and likely pushing the presidential nomination calendar closer to 2007.
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Florida Democrats could lose their votes for the presidential nominee next year unless they change plans to hold their primary earlier than national party rules allow.
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Mitt Romney will release his delegates Â and while the rules vary by state, he can ask many of them to support John McCain.
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As state Republican parties scurry to meet tonightâs plan submission deadline for their nominating contests, the national G.O.P. issued a warning that it intends to enforce its timing rulesâno exceptions.
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For Saturday's crucial primary, the GOP candidates are busy reframing the issues and shoring up their conservative credentials
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The two candidates are running neck and neck before the Republican primary Tuesday.
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Voters in 24 US states are set to choose their candidates in the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections.
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With California leading the stampede, states are rushing to get more clout in the 2008 White House race by moving their primaries to early February -- a shift that could aid front-runners with big names and big bank accounts.
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Two weeks before the first vote is cast in the state-by-state process to select party candidates for the U.S. presidential election, one Republican was briefly hospitalized and another dropped out on Thursday.
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One Republican presidential nomination. Two primaries.
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A record low primary turnout and voter disgust for politics could spell trouble for Republicans trying to keep control of the House and Senate.
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For all the attention focused on the Super Tuesday primaries, some delegate-rich states will still be left after Feb 5. Some of the bigger ones:
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Mitt Romney and John McCain traded attacks in a state that could produce a Republican front-runner before a virtual national primary next week.
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Republican frontrunners locked in race to win today's Florida primary
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Highlights from the eight states that held primaries Tuesday:
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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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.