At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

In New York, the Tammany Hall Democrats, after vacillating, decided that they would gain more from supporting a Democrat they disliked than a Republican who would do nothing for them.

He decided against running for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, citing health problems related to phlebitis.

Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

By 1914 the Republican Party was beginning to show signs of reunification, with the result that support weakened for Ohio's U. S. Senator Theodore Burton, who then decided not to stand for re-election.

" Roosevelt declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination in February 1912 ; Taft soon decided that he would focus on canvassing for delegates and not attempt at the outset to take on the more able campaigner one on one.

With this last minute change in opposition in mind, and the added fear of the Republican Guard blowing up the platforms upon attack, the SEALs decided to change their plan to quickly take out all opposition before physically securing MABOT.

During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.

After being told by key Republican Senators that enough votes existed to remove him, he decided to resign.

In 1967 while living and studying in New York, Meredith decided to run as a Republican against the incumbent Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in a special election for the Congressional seat in Harlem, but withdrew.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

However, there has been a decided shift toward the Democrats in recent years, who overtook the Republican countywide registration during the summer of 2008.

Bradley is best remembered as being the 15th and final member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.

According to Texas House of Representatives member Keith Valigura, a Republican of Conroe, said that Patton Village police decided to do roadside inspections with every speeding driver so that the police department could bill drivers for other violations.

In 1996, incumbent Republican U. S. Congressman Bill Zeliff decided to run for Governor of New Hampshire.

However DeLay decided that he would be " too nuclear " to lead the closely divided House that had resulted from the Republican House losses in 1996 and 1998.

The only Republican to express interest in the race, health care executive Tom Formicola, decided not to run.

Pawlenty then decided on the U. S. Senate, but he abandoned those plans when Vice President Dick Cheney asked him to step aside and allow former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman to challenge Senator Paul Wellstone without Republican primary opposition.

In 1998, the Scottish Socialist Party ( SSP ) was formed and the SRSP narrowly decided to join them, and reformed as a cross-party movement called the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement.

Pat Buchanan decided to leave the Republican Party because: " The Republican Party at the national level has ceased to be my party.

In 1978, Coverdell was vacationing in Maine and decided to look up former Chairman of the Republican National Committee George H. W. Bush.

In 1994, she decided not to run for re-election in the State Senate in order to run for Governor of Michigan against incumbent Republican John Engler.

It was decided that a Republican referendum was to be held in October.

In 1986, incumbent Republican U. S. Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler decided to retire to run for the U. S. Senate.

When Calvin Coolidge announced in 1928 that he would not seek a full term of office in the 1928 Presidential Election, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate, despite the fact Coolidge was lukewarm on Hoover, often deriding his ambitious and popular Commerce Secretary as " Wonder Boy ".

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

U. S. senator Bob Smith announced his switch from Republican to the U. S. Taxpayers Party in 1999 to seek its 2000 presidential nomination.

In 2008, he began writing editorials on the Constitution Party's web page, fueling speculation that he would seek its presidential nomination again, although he had endorsed Rep. Duncan Hunter for the Republican nomination.

** U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.

Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.

Declining to seek re-election in 2002, he was succeeded by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham.

In September 1986, Robertson announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

Fairbanks sought the Republican nomination for President but Roosevelt ( who chose to not seek reelection ) supported William Howard Taft as his potential successor in 1908, sending Fairbanks back to the practice of law.

When the Republican Party chose to endorse Democratic Councilman Kyle Kotary for town supervisor in May 2011, then-supervisor Messina announced he would not seek reelection.

In 1990, after 40 years as a Democrat, Faircloth switched his party registration and began preparations to seek the Republican Senate nomination in 1992.

President Eisenhower, a Republican, regarded Alaska as too large and sparsely populated to be economically self-sufficient as a state, and furthermore saw statehood as an obstacle to effective defense of Alaska should the Soviet Union seek to invade it.

Hastert was reelected to an eleventh term in Congress in the 2006 general election, however, the Republican Party lost its majority in the House and Hastert did not seek a leadership position in the 110th Congress.

In Washington State in February 2012, the organization vowed to follow through on a commitment to spend $ 250, 000 to help defeat the Republican state senators who voted for a bill to give same-sex couples the right to marry should they seek office again.

On January 7, 2006, after weeks of growing pressure from Republican colleagues, and particularly from Reps. Charlie Bass and Jeff Flake, who wanted to avoid being associated with DeLay's legal issues in an election year, DeLay announced that he would not seek to regain his position as Majority Leader.

He bowed to the desire of Republican leaders, including U. S. President Richard M. Nixon, to have a reluctant incumbent U. S. Senator J. Caleb Boggs seek a third term.

In 1952, Martin urged General Douglas MacArthur, whom he had invited to give the speech before Congress popularly called " Old Soldiers Never Die ," to seek the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1960, Rockefeller did not seek the governorship but instead raised funds for the Republican nominee, Henry M. Britt, a conservative lawyer from Hot Springs, the seat of Garland County.

The district's nine-term incumbent, fellow Republican John Doolittle, did not seek re-election.

White declined to seek the Republican nomination for Governor again in 1990, opting to support Sheffield Nelson in his primary race against Representative Tommy Robinson instead of running himself.

Osro Cobb of Montgomery County, the only Republican member of the Arkansas House at the time, did not seek a third two-year term but managed Livesay's race against Parnell.

She did not seek re-election in 2000 in order to challenge incumbent Republican U. S. Senator Spencer Abraham.

Pete Wilson was elected Governor of California to succeed outgoing two-term Republican governor George Deukmejian, who chose not to seek a third term in 1990, defeating former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who would go on to be elected to Wilson's former U. S. Senate seat two years later.

Deukmejian didn't seek reelection to a third term as governor in the 1990 gubernatorial elections, and was succeeded by fellow Republican then-United States Senator Pete Wilson on January 7, 1991.

He had already filed nomination papers to seek another term, however, and attempted to have his name removed from the Republican primary ballot.