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Republican and Party
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.
The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
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.
Now he's gone, the Republican Party is not going to be able to sell the tattered remains to the people of the state ''.
Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.
Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.
Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination.
" 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.
Instead, he monitored the campaign closely and relied on the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.
He was the first president from the Republican Party.
Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.
At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.
By contrast, the National Union Party was united and energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.
The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.
Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding an end to its expansion.
Lincoln led the new Republican Party in developing their platform calling slavery a national evil, and insisting Congress end slavery expansion into the territories.
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Republican and strategists
As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists ( led by Secretary of State James Baker ) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.
Larsen defeated Republican candidate Doug Roulstone, a retired Navy officer who was recruited by GOP strategists.
An article in the New York Times subsequently stated that unnamed " Republican political strategists acknowledge they were behind the episode.
For example, some Republican strategists have hoped that African Americans, a traditionally Democratic voting bloc, yet also one that possesses some of the most conservative views on matters of homosexuality, may be more inclined to vote for the Republican Party because of their opposition to gay marriage.
Conservative and Republican strategists " concoct smears, distortions, and outright lies ", and then disseminate the product as ' talking points ' to right-wing radio and Fox News, which Brock says set a narrative echoed by more mainstream news sources.

Republican and compared
In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won the county with 50. 5 % of the vote, compared to 47. 2 % for Republican candidate John McCain.
In the United States presidential election of 2008, Democrat Barack Obama carried Prince William with 57. 51 % of the vote, compared to Republican John McCain who received 41. 62 %.
In the 2004 presidential election, Arthur County was one of the most Republican-leaning counties in the country ; 90. 2 % of its electorate voted for Republican incumbent George W. Bush ( compared to 9. 0 % for Democratic challenger John F. Kerry ).
In the 2008 presidential election, 82. 5 % of its electorate voted for Republican John S. McCain ( compared to 14. 8 % for Democrat Barack H. Obama ).
Since 2000, parish voters have supported the Republican Party candidate in presidential elections: that year Bush-Cheney polled 2, 512 votes ( 55 percent ), compared to 2, 187 ( 45 percent ) for the Democrats Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.
Although the parish trends Democratic, in the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama of Illinois received only 1, 659 votes ( 31. 8 percent ) compared to 3, 486 ( 66. 7 percent ) for the Republican nominee, John S. McCain of Arizona.
The majority of registered voters are in the Democratic Party, a stronghold of Democrats in a largely Republican voting bloc ( the Inland Empire ) and compared to neighboring cities.
In the 2006 Washington Senatorial Election, Democrat Maria Cantwell received 53. 91 % of the vote compared to Republican Mike McGavick's 44. 29 %.
On January 3, Pelosi defeated Republican John Boehner of Ohio with 233 votes compared to his 202 votes in the election for Speaker of the House.
In the 1880 presidential election, he received 308, 578 votes, compared to 4, 454, 416 for Republican James Garfield and 4, 444, 952 for Democrat Winfield Hancock.
Wyden was elected to a full term in 1998 with 61 percent of the vote, and in 2004, was re-elected to another full term, receiving 64 % of the vote compared to 31 % for his main opponent, Republican Al King.
The Republican convention on July 12 in Detroit Lakes was compared to the Battle of the Boyne in Northern Ireland.
It was a good showing for a Republican candidate in Arkansas, compared to previous races in the 1940s and early 1950s.
In 1971, Chandler again entered the gubernatorial race, this time as an independent, but he garnered only 39, 493 votes, compared to 470, 720 for eventual Democratic victor Wendell H. Ford, and 412, 653 for Republican challenger Tom Emberton.
On October 31, 2010, electoral analysis site FiveThirtyEight. com gave Chafee a 63. 8 % chance of victory, compared to Democratic opponent Frank Caprio's 26. 2 % and Republican opponent John Robitaille's 10. 0 %.
The parliamentary elections of May 24, 2003 resulted in increasing the number of the Republican Party ’ s seats in the Parliament, compared to 1999 elections.
Despite the endorsement of Breaux, the most prolific vote-getter in the history of Louisiana, Chris John was defeated by Republican David Vitter of the New Orleans suburbs in the primary, Vitter garnering 51 percent of the vote, compared to only 29 percent for John.
He is viewed as conservative when compared to other members of the Republican Main Street Partnership.
* February 17-Democrat Ben Chandler defeats Republican Alice Forgy Kerr in a Congressional special election in Kentucky with 55 % of the vote compared to Forgy Kerr's 43 %.
Republican aircraft were ineffective, despite Nationalist fears, compared with German aircraft ; the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was shown to be superior to the I-15 and I-16 models used by Republican forces.
* February 12 – Spanish Nationalist forces have 600 aircraft, compared to only 40 available on the Republican side.
The platform adopted by the 2004 Republican National Convention was the longest in the party's history compared to the mere 1, 000-word platform adopted at the first convention in 1856.
" But his Republican opponent in the ongoing 1996 presidential election, Senator Bob Dole, compared it the enemies list kept by the Nixon administration.
As of the U. S. gubernatorial elections of 2010, the Republican party holds an outright majority of approximately 440 with 3, 890 seats ( 53 % of total ) compared to the Democrat party's number of 3, 450 ( 47 % of total ) seats elected on a partisan ballot.

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