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" The GOP pledged instead a " clean business administration, substantial tax reductions, honest audits, law enforcement, industrial leadership, and real statesmanship.

He was considered as the Vice-Presidential nominee on the GOP ticket by Bob Dole and George W. Bush in 1996 and 2000, though Jack Kemp and Dick Cheney were chosen instead.

Treen joined the Republican Party ( GOP ), then still small in Louisiana, in 1962 to run for the U. S. House of Representatives against Second District Democrat Hale Boggs ( 1914 – 1972 ), of New Orleans though Treen's father had urged him instead to challenge Boggs for renomination in the Democratic primary.

Kennedy had faced potential challenges from former U. S. Senator Rod Grams, as well as U. S. Representative Gil Gutknecht, but both men were persuaded by national GOP leaders to run for the House instead.

In 1968, Richard Nixon ran the first GOP " Southern strategy " campaign appealing to disaffected southern white voters.

He ran against President Ford for the 1976 GOP nomination, and narrowly lost, but the stage was set for Reagan in 1980.

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

In 1964 he faced an energetic Republican challenge from Dan Kuykendall, chairman of the Shelby County ( Memphis ) GOP, who ran a surprisingly strong race against him.

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.

Armey's son, Scott, ran for his father's seat in the 2002 election, but lost in the Republican Party ( GOP ) runoff to Michael C. Burgess, who would go on to hold the strongly Republican 26th District for the GOP in November.

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.

Stokes ran for the U. S. Senate in 1928, but finished third in the GOP primary behind Hamilton F. Kean and Joseph Frelinghuysen.

Benson ran in the 1998 Republican primary for governor, starting off as the initial front-runner in the GOP primary.

Tony, who was a Senate page and intern for GOP Senator Strom Thurmond from 1996 to 1997, was a speechwriter and legislative correspondent for Republican Senator Norm Coleman from 2004 to 2006 ; in 2006, Tony ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, losing to Tommy Wells.

A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.

In 1970, the Arkansas GOP under Rockefeller hired its first paid executive director, Neal Sox Johnson of Nashville in Howard County.

He further alleged that the Arkansas GOP would " never fully develop and take its place in Arkansas politics under its present leadership ....

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.

With Kentucky in 2003 electing its first Republican governor since 1967, Washington now has the nation's longest streak of not having elected a GOP chief executive.

In 1968, Congressional Quarterly reported that at its national convention " the GOP did revert to the epithet of ' Democrat ' party.

( 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.

When Bonilla took charge in 1999 of an independent political fund called American Dream PAC, he made clear that its mission was to " give significant, direct financial assistance to first-rate minority GOP candidates ".

The GOP lost its three seats in the Mississippi legislature.

Appalled by the micromanagement of the campaigh by Perot's staff in Houston, Arnebeck eventually challenged its legitimacy in a Washington press conference before the election In 1996 Arnebeck decided to challenge the political establishment by running for Congress as a Democrat against Wylie's successor, GOP Congresswoman Deborah Pryce.

" The drug lobby pays the group " as a front for its TV and radio ' issue ' ad campaigns ," which is also " used by several corporate energy front groups pushing for the GOP

On March 6, 2012, the Idaho GOP held its first Presidential Caucus.

The Wallace movement did help break away a major element of the New Deal coalition — less educated, powerless low income whites -- which decades later made its way into the GOP in the South.

In this role she took a strong role in directing the development of the Winning Women initiative, whose aim was to improve the image of the GOP towards women and demonstrate the relevance of its platform to them.

The GOP also held all of its other Southern governorships.

The greatest Republican gains came in the U. S. House, where the GOP more than erased its losses from 2006 and 2008 by gaining 63 seats, retaking control of the chamber in the process.

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.

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 ".

-- 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.

A GOP candidate even won a seat on the Tensas Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, with the victory of Emmett L. Adams, Jr., in District 1 over fellow Republican Patrick Glass.

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.

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 %).

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.

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.