-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

In 1919, the first candidate to declare for the GOP nomination was General Leonard Wood.

However, her attempt to block the election of Richard M. Daley, the son of her late mentor, to the prominent position of Cook County States ' Attorney ( chief local prosecutor ) in 1980 failed as Daley defeated Byrne's candidate, 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke in the Democratic Primary and GOP incumbent Bernard Carey in the general election.

Roosevelt's efforts to reform New York politics-including Republican politics-led Platt and other state GOP leaders to pressure President McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his new vice-presidential candidate, thus filling the spot left open when Vice-President Garret Hobart died in 1899.

It is one of three parishes — the others are neighboring Red River and St. Bernard near New Orleans – to have rejected the successful GOP gubernatorial candidate, U. S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.

GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum held a town hall meeting at the Palace Theatre January 30, 2012.

Thompson himself was not expelled from the House of Representatives because he lost his re-election campaign in 1980 to Republican Chris Smith, a relatively unknown GOP candidate who in 1978 had run against Thompson as a sacrificial lamb candidate.

Kristol is a harsh critic of Texas congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul -( R ) and his supporters, he has been quoted as stating that he " would be happy if Paul ( and his supporters ) were purged from the GOP ".

On 2012 GOP primary, Blackburn did not endorse a presidential candidate, though she expected tea-party supporters would prefer Rick Santorum.

the Kennedys ", and tried to tie Barnett and Johnson to them as well as convince voters that he and GOP Lieutenant Governor candidate Stanford Morse represented the best hope for preserving Mississippi's traditional " way of life " while at the same time making overall progress.

William Allen White, a leading progressive spokesman, supported GOP candidate Herbert Hoover in 1928 as one who could " spiritualize " business prosperity and make it serve progressive ends.

Remmel, a businessman and scion of a prominent Republican family, polled the strongest vote at the time for a GOP candidate since Reconstruction.

In the 1956 general election, Faubus, having already eliminated Jim Johnson, overwhelmed GOP candidate Roy Mitchell, later the GOP state chairman from Hot Springs, 321, 797 ( 80. 7 %) to 77, 215 ( 19. 4 %).

The GOP instead ran the 40-year-old Pine Bluff plumber Leon Griffith as its sacrificial lamb candidate against Pryor, who won the second of his two gubernatorial terms with more than 80 percent of the ballots.

In 1966, he came to Georgia to host a fundraising dinner in Atlanta for U. S. Representative Howard " Bo " Callaway in the first gubernatorial campaign undertaken by a GOP candidate since the Reconstruction era.

Although Richardson was favored to win the seat, he was defeated in the GOP primary by conservative candidate Ray Shamie, who lost the general election to John F. Kerry.

Farris was the only statewide GOP candidate to lose that year, but lost by a wide enough margin to make it questionable as to whether Warner's support would have made a difference.

Larsen defeated Republican candidate Doug Roulstone, a retired Navy officer who was recruited by GOP strategists.

The Second District was predominantly Democratic in terms of voter registration, and Lewis, named as a candidate by the state GOP leadership and Senator Mitch McConnell, was considered somewhat of a " sacrificial lamb ".

Few African Americans voted for George W. Bush and other Republicans in the 2004 elections, although it was a higher percentage than any GOP candidate since President Ronald Reagan.

Two of Hoekstra ’ s GOP opponents, Clark Durant and Gary Glenn, questioned whether Hoekstra is the right candidate for Republicans to support.

In September 23, 2012, he spoke at a private fundraising event in Beverly Hills, California for GOP Presidential candidate Willard Mitt Romney.

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When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

* Also see Rose, Gregory F. " The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC ," National Review, March 30, 1979, and Reich, September 21, 1977: " Three and four years ago, the tiny U. S. Labor Party, preaching Marxist revolution, was engaged in a bitter fight with the Communist Party over which was a purer representative of left-wing tradition .< p >" But now the Labor Party, under the same leadership, has moved to the right, has joined with persons in the South who are heirs to George C. Wallace's American Independent Party tradition, is soliciting help from orthodox Republicans and even had an information table at a big GOP fund-raising dinner in the Biltmore here last month.

Richardson was a moderate-liberal Republican, and his defeat at the hands of the very conservative Shamie was seen as symbolizing the decline of the moderate wing of the GOP, even in a section of the country where it was historically strong.

In mid-August, in a report on National Republican Congressional Committee planned spending, the Associated Press reported that " the GOP has not reserved advertising time to aid Rep. Chris Chocola in Indiana even though Democrats plan to spend at least $ 700, 000 to win the district.

When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, " Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions ," and, " by the ' 70s and into the ' 80s and ' 90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out.

Briefly, a consensus developed that Martin might even lend coattails to Republican candidates in legislative, county, and municipal elections though there was no GOP nominee for lieutenant governor.

Even in Arkansas, however, the GOP won three of six statewide down-ballot positions that they often did not field candidates for in even recent years as well as went from eight to fifteen out of thirty-five seats in the state senate and from twenty-eight to forty-five out of one hundred in the state house of representatives.

Originally, Workman thought not to drop out of the 2004 county mayoral race, even when the Utah GOP dropped public support for her.

Throughout the 1970s, five-term Democratic Congressman Harold Runnels had been so popular that the GOP didn't even put up a candidate against him in 1978 or 1980.

( GOP protestors even chased the Mayor's plane on an airport tarmac during a statewide flyaround for Cuomo.

He defeated Republican John M. McDonald by a huge margin, 72-28 percent, even though Jefferson Parish is considered a GOP stronghold in Louisiana.

Public opinion polls conducted in January 2008 indicated a lead over Hackett ( then a candidate in the GOP primary ), by significant double-digit margins and even a majority of registered Republicans, 53 percent, approve of Carney's job performance.

He was a moderate or even liberal Republican and part of the Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson A. Rockefeller faction of the New York GOP.

Too many people were afraid if the GOP won, they'd have to spend all their time praying.

Dewey had won most of the presidential primaries in the spring of 1940, and he came into the GOP Convention in June with the largest number of delegate votes, although he was still well below the number needed to win.

In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board.

Loss of these two Democratic lawmakers, along with two special elections won by Republicans, flipped the state senate to GOP control, where it has remained ever since ( as of September 2011.

In 2008 Blackburn won her GOP primary race by gaining 62 percent of the vote against Shelby County register of deeds, and former fellow state senator, moderate Republican Tom Leatherwood.

In 1972, Nixon won the GOP nomination.

On January 29, 2008, Lewis announced he wouldn't run for reelection in 2008 on the same day as the filing deadline ; he was hoping to ensure the GOP nomination would be won by his chief of staff, Daniel London, but State Senator Brett Guthrie also filed for the race.

Inslee won with 49. 8 % of the vote to White's 44. 1 %; his success was aided by the conservative third political party candidacy of Bruce Craswell, husband of 1996 GOP gubernatorial nominee Ellen Craswell.

Graham's supporters mounted a write-in candidacy for the November general election, but he received only one-half of one percent, and Smith won in a landslide against a desultory GOP opponent.

He ran again in 1986 and won a contested GOP primary against U. S. Representative Thomas Loeffler of New Braunfels, the seat of Comal County, and former Democratic turned Republican Congressman Kent Hance of Lubbock.

He easily won the Republican nomination in the first-ever GOP primary election held in Alabama.

During the 2008 cycle, through a partnership of Republican volunteers, donors and 59 members of the House of Representatives, five House GOP challengers won against incumbent Democrats.

( The state has, however, given its electoral votes to the GOP in the past three Presidential elections, although in 1992 and 1996, " favorite son " Bill Clinton was the candidate and won each time.

In fact, the 20th was ( and still is ) became so heavily Democratic that González faced GOP opposition only five times and handily won each time.

The 4th district seat was also won by a Republican, Van Hilleary, as the GOP gained a majority of the state's congressional delegation for only the second time since Reconstruction.

Having not won the district since 1874, Republicans had long since given up on it ; the last serious GOP bid for the 5th had been in 1972.

By emphasizing issues like health care and school funding, and avoiding hot-button social issues, Sebelius successfully fractured the Kansas GOP and won a clear majority.

First, Hansen won the GOP primary over two opponents with 57 percent of the ballots.

In March, Topinka won the GOP primary by 38 % to 32 % over dairy magnate Jim Oberweis.

In May 2010, Dudley won 39 % of the vote in a crowded Republican primary to win the GOP nomination, and prepared to face former governor John Kitzhaber in the November general election.

Buckley won a plurality upset victory over GOP incumbent Charles Goodell and favored Democrat Richard Ottinger.

GOP candidate Chandler Gurney had won the nomination for the full term, but state laws prevented his name from appearing twice on the ballot.