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...upsets. In order to try and push legislation past the G.O.P.'s frequent filibusters, they have laid on the pressure, particularly on the four Republican incumbents from states trending Blue. The four - Maine's Susan Collins, New Hampshire's John Sununu, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota - are constantly on the spot, whether it's because of near-weekly votes on President Bush's strategy in Iraq or popular legislation to expand stem cell research and children's health care. The strategy has forced some defections, such as Collins and Coleman on Iraq and Sununu on children...
...promises to change course on the war. And there's a bonus in this for the President as well: if a close vote makes it to the floor of the Senate, Bush can allow most of the moderate Republican Senators who are up for re-election next year - Norm Coleman of Minnesota, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Gordon Smith of Oregon - to vote with the Democrats. That would permit endangered Republicans to strike an independent pose with voters and still enable Bush to sustain a veto in the House...
...aggressive. "He radiates this sense of attainability--as if anyone who meets him can be his friend," says Gary March, the entertainment president of the Disney Channel. "That's not something you learn in acting class. That's something you're born with." High School Musical co-star Monique Coleman says, "He also has a way of wooing the women by including them. By making every single girl feel like they could be his girlfriend...
...While the defections were numerous, the Republican leadership is confident that it will maintain enough votes to block all the controversial amendments, according to several GOP staffers. And, at least one skeptic left lunch pledging to wait until September: Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican...
...role ultimately is not going to be at the forefront of being at an ascent of a civil war in Baghdad ... I have no question that that is something we have to be out of, that we will be out of," Coleman told reporters. "The question is, will we be out of it in September with the Iraqis having moved forward with power sharing...