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...website boosting his initiative, called Small Town Defenders. Although immigration ranks low among major issues for Pennsylvania voters, said Terry Madonna, head of the non-partisan Keystone Poll, it is clear that Santorum's position on immigration has helped him close the gap in a tough race against Democrat Robert Casey Jr. The issue plays well with a small core of Republican activists, Madonna said, and it also allows Santorum to draw a legitimate difference with the unpopular President Bush, who is otherwise closely associated with Santorum. The President favors less stringent restrictions on illegal immigrants, including a guest worker...
...Iraq. So what was the Arizona Senator and top-shelf 2008 presidential contender up to yesterday in Ohio when he unloaded on the Bush Administration's handling of the war in a speech that, with a few tweaks, could have been delivered by an anti-war Democrat? "I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was underestimating the size of the task and the sacrifices that would be required," McCain said. "Stuff happens, mission accomplished, last throes, a few dead-enders," he went on, citing some of the, ah, less-than-accurate assessments of the Iraq venture made over...
...Breakfast at the state fair, it's a safe bet that the draw will be the prized ham - which last year brought a record $340,000 at auction - and not Gov. Ernie Fletcher. The governor, whose 2003 election capped nearly a decade of prior Republican gains in the once-Democrat-dominated state, finds himself with few friends and a growing list of potential challengers from within his own party. His tenuous re-election prospects - and the distancing from Fletcher by the state's Republican chieftain, Senator Mitch McConnell - suggest that his grip on the Governor's Mansion is shaky...
...national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis won by beating a long-time Democratic leader of the State Senate...
...silence - which Dyche believes is intentional - has left others, including Secretary of State Trey Grayson, to call for Fletcher to quit after a single four-year term. "There is a basic worry that if the governor is on the ballot in the fall, he can't win against the Democrat," Grayson in an interview Wednesday. Grayson said he has spoken twice this month with McConnell about his plans, but said they were private conversations. McConnell declined comment. "We ran last time on a campaign aimed at cleaning up Frankfort, with changing the culture in Frankfort," Grayson, a 34-year...