Word: gop
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These bodies will redraw congressional districts after the 1990 census, and Republican-controlled states could draw boundaries that favor the GOP. Since the current districts are widely thought to be gerrymandered in favor of Democrats, such a shift could give the Republicans a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s...
...more likely result of overturning Roe would be far less palatable to the GOP. An end to legal abortion could spell the end of Republican hegemony in presidential elections...
...poll, 44 percent of Republicans oppose a ban on abortions. Opposition among Independents and Democrats who vote Republican is even stronger. Moreover, 78 percent of college-educated voters and 68 percent of Westerners oppose a ban. These are not groups that Republicans can afford to lose, especially since the GOP's electoral lock on the West gives it the presidency...
Bush also scheduled individual meetings with Sen. John Warner, (R-Va.), the ranking GOP member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sens. Charles Robb, (D-Va.); Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and Bill Bradley...
Daley and Sawyer are the top contenders in the four-way Democratic primary today, while three candidates are running on the GOP ballot...