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AP - Tuesday’s elections leave little doubt that the Republicans’ Nixon-era strategy to win over white Southerners has been a resounding success. But have they lost the rest of the country along the way?
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AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign.
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AP - President-elect Obama’s transition chief said Sunday the incoming administration is looking to reverse President Bush’s executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling and other matters.
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CQPolitics.com - Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman wants to stay in the Democratic caucus, but not give up his plum chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee as some Democrats want, an aide to the senator said Friday.
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AP - Democrat Jeff Merkley has ousted Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, a victory once considered unlikely against an incumbent who had highlighted his efforts to work across the aisle in hopes of surviving a wave of anti-GOP sentiment.
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AFP - The US Republican Party, once dominant now in disarray, is beginning the search for a leader to chart a course out of the wilderness after the presidential and congressional elections disaster.
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CQPolitics.com - House Republican Whip Roy Blunt said Thursday he will step down as part of a broader shakeup in the GOP leadership that would reflect a smaller, more conservative caucus.
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AP - President Bush’s proposal to create a string of marine sanctuaries in the Gulf of Mexico, known as the “Islands in the Stream,” has died at least for now after Republican senators opposed it, a sanctuary official said.
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AP - Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, the No. 2 Republican in the House, announced Thursday that he is stepping aside after Democrats added to their numbers in Congress and captured the White House.
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AP - South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson has for months quietly been courting support among the Republican National Committee’s members, who now are in the market for new leadership, GOP officials say.
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