If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

In defeat, Callaway said that the GOP had " a long way to go to achieve a competitive force.

The Religious Right has become a powerful force within the GOP.

McCain chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, and while she was greeted by the GOP establishment with initial skepticism, she electrified many conservatives and has become a major political force on the Right.

On July 6, 2009, Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was censured by the state GOP executive committee for traveling overseas on tax payer funds to visit his mistress.

Cade was the Republican state chairman from 1976 to 1978, and Nungesser chaired the GOP central committee as well from 1988 to 1992.

In 1995, the Republican Party, which had gained a majority in the House for the first time in four decades, offered Laughlin a seat on the Ways and Means committee if he joined the GOP.

Perry had endorsements from virtually the entire Texas GOP Congressional delegation ( all but two members ), every other Republican statewide officeholder ( except Strayhorn and judicial officeholders ; the latter by law cannot endorse political candidates ), 51 of the 62 members of the Texas Republican Party executive committee, and nearly every major Texas pro-business, fiscal conservative, and social conservative organization and PAC.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he served in several political capacities: county committee member, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party's finance committee, GOP candidate for Governor in 1974, chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the 1976 GOP convention, and Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

And they're confident that the GOP, currently assailed by dissensions within the ranks, will be impressed by the purring power beneath the hood of this grassroots-fueled machine.

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

Sen. Charles W. Sandman, R-Cape May, said today Jones will run well ahead of his GOP opponents for the gubernatorial nomination.

John M. Vorys of Ohio summed up GOP support for the measure, noting that military aid to “ nations who will fight on our side ” is “ sound economy .” Representative James P. Richards of South Carolina, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, noted that the Mutual Security Act was intended “ not to fight a war ” but “ to prevent a war .”

The GOP will hold a 8-1 majority in the Town Council ( including Mayor Skibitsky ) through 2013 when five Council seats ( including Mayor ) will be contested.

" The Democrats used a song composed by Houston Davis of Jackson: " Rubel, Rubel, little Rubel, Poor misguided Democrat, when it comes to the final test, The GOP will leave you flat.

" Ungracious in victory, Adam telegraphed Yerger that since the GOP had been " electrocuted, will you please advise the date and place you will deliver the funeral oration?

When that day arrives, the GOP will look back on this election as the real starting point.

Former GOP presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon introduced the Arizonan as " Mr. Conservative " and " Mr. Republican " and he continued that " he is the man who, after the greatest campaign in history, will be Mr. President — Barry Goldwater ".

* On February 23, 2012, Roemer dropped out of the GOP nomination to seek the Reform Party's nomination.

He left the Railroad Commission in 1990, once again to seek the GOP nomination for governor but was heavily defeated in the primary by another West Texan, controversial Midland businessman Clayton Williams.

He was re-elected in 1968 but did not seek a third term in 1970, having deferred to his friend and Little Rock neighbor, Sterling R. Cockrill, a Democrat-turned-Republican, who ran unsuccessfully on Winthrop Rockefeller's losing GOP ticket that year.

Phillips did not again seek public office but remained a long-term financial backer of the Mississippi GOP.

The Republican nominee in 2006, Dick DeVos, announced in November 2008 that he was not going to seek the GOP nomination in 2010.

In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader of the reform faction of his Republican party ( the " GOP ").

His liberalism lost him supporters in the GOP and he dropped out of the 1944 race, then died of a heart attack.

In the months leading up to the opening of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the GOP was deeply divided between the party's isolationists, who wanted to stay out of the war at all costs, and the party's interventionists, who felt that the United Kingdom and her allies needed to be given all aid short of war to prevent the Germans from conquering all of Europe.

With Taft out of the race some GOP conservatives favored General MacArthur.

Baker ran for President in 1980, dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination after losing the Iowa caucuses to George H. W.

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker dropped out of the GOP primary on March 24, 2006, citing a lack of campaign funds.

However, Putnam mentioned that there remained severe discontent within the GOP circle over Gonzales and as the Chairman of the House Republican Conference, he thought that it was important to send this message out.

So, as pointed out above, the 1896 realignment really began around 1892, and the 130 seat GOP gain ( after all, this is the all-time record ) in 1894 meant there were almost no seats left to pick up in 1896.

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.

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.

Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and President Pro Tempore of the Senate, was a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination before dropping out of the contest.

A combined 3 million dollars was spent by both candidates in what turned out to be the most expensive U. S. House race in the state of North Carolina, but although the GOP made historic gains in the ensuing House takeover nationwide, Pantano only received 46 % of the vote in the 7th District, including losing his home county of New Hanover.

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

Benjamin publicly accused New York GOP Chairman Sandy Treadwell and Governor George Pataki of trying to muscle him out of the Senate race and undermine the democratic process.

Accustomed to a one-party state in which the open primary for the Democratic nomination was considered tantamount to election, many Alabama voters took out their frustrations by voting against Baxley and for Guy Hunt, the GOP nominee.

However, after it became clear that the GOP establishment had already decided on Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher, she dropped out of the race.

Braley defeated GOP challenger Ben Lange, an attorney out of Independence, by only about 4, 000 votes out of more than 215, 000 cast.

During that state's 2002 election for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by Robert C. Smith, the NHGOP hired GOP Marketplace, based in Northern Virginia, to jam another phone bank being used by the state Democratic Party and the firefighters ' union for efforts to turn out voters on behalf of then-governor Jeanne Shaheen on Election Day.