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In the Republican primary on March 16, McEwen faced trade lawyer Rob Portman, who had worked in the White House under President George H. W. Bush ; real estate developer Jay Buchert, the president of the National Association of Home Builders ; and several lesser known candidates: real estate appraiser Garland Eugene Crawford of Loveland ; pro-life activist Ken Callis of the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming ; Robert W. Dorsey, a professor at the University of Cincinnati and township trustee in Hamilton County's Anderson Township ; and Ku Klux Klan leader Van Darrell Loman of Cheviot.
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With the fundraising help of friend Oliver North, Rohrabacher was able to win the Republican primary with a plurality of 35 %.
On January 6, 2008, Kemp endorsed McCain in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries shortly before the New Hampshire primary, which surprised conservative Republican tax cutters.
In 1972, Ashcroft ran for a Congressional seat in southwest Missouri in the Republican primary election, narrowly losing to Gene Taylor.
In the Republican primary, Ashcroft defeated Marc Perkel.
As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.
The 2008 Republican presidential primary was slated to be held in February, while Democrats held their primary in June.
The primary Republican policy was that slavery be excluded from all the territories.
Buchanan's New Hampshire win alarmed the Republican " establishment " sufficiently as to provoke prominent Republicans to quickly coalesce around Dole, and Dole won every primary starting with North and South Dakota.
U. S. Virgin Islands residents, however, are able to vote in presidential primary elections for delegates to the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.
When prompted, Harding agreed to run for Burton's seat against his mentor, " Fire Engine " Joe Foraker, in the Republican primary, and he emerged victorious.
** Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.
** Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75 % of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
* May 26 – Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the nomination.
** Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
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* March 28 – Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical ( laique ) and obligatory.
Pucinski went on to defeat Byrne in the primary and Vrdolyak — by then a Republican — in the general election.
Although winning the Democratic primary is normally tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton ( earlier considered a nominal stand-in ), was supported by many white Democrats and ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward " Fast Eddie " Vrdolyak.
Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.
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Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.
A Republican survey says Kennedy won the '60 election on the religious issue.
If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.
Seated on the platform were Amos C. Barstow, ex-mayor of Providence and a wealthy Republican stove manufacturer ; ;
One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.
Hughes said Monday, `` It is the apparent intention of the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass of what they call Eisenhower Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood congealed after Eisenhower retired.
Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.
Hughes would not comment on tax reforms or other issues in which the Republican candidates are involved.
Privately, they also admitted that their hopes for Clint Anderson's three-fifths modification depended on none other than Republican Richard Nixon.
" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.
After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.
Instead, he monitored the campaign closely and relied on the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.
There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.
Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.
* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.
Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.
Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.
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