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...health care, immigration, education, and the environment, rather than being complacent with the triumph. “Our focus will now be on how to turn the electoral victories into concrete policies that will bring a new direction,” Lesser said. Despite the GOP’s defeat, Kwong said voters had mostly agreed with the Republican platform on specific policy issues on the ballot. “If you look at the single issues...the voters were all in tune with the Republican Party,” he said, specifically citing anti-affirmative action initiatives and same...
...With House Speaker Dennis Hastert deciding to leave his post after the party's defeat, a fierce campaign is already under way for top slots in the House G.O.P. leadership for next year. The candidates have a lot in common - and not just because most of them are middle-aged white men. Nearly every member vying for party power in the new Congress is offering the same description of what ails Republicans and how it can be remedied. It goes something like this: "After 1994, we were a majority committed to balanced federal budgets, entitlement reform and advancing the principles...
...Conrad Burns conceded defeat to Jon Tester on Thursday, acknowledging that a tight election had gone to the Democrats, Burns' campaign told the Associated Press bureau in Helena, Montana, in a written statement...
...charm in his pocket. It was a smooth, white oblong stone he'd picked up while hiking in Washington State's Olympic Range. Gates put it in his pocket to remind him during the tough confirmation hearings that there was life after Washington if his nomination went down to defeat...
...gays. Ultimately Ford's hope was to build a rainbow coalition, one that would unite rednecks and the ghetto in mutual homophobia. If I lived in Tennessee, I couldn't have voted for either Ford or his opponent, Bob Corker. That doesn't make the style of Ford's defeat any less disappointing. But at least it makes it poetic...