Word: gop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...University of Oklahoma, where former Senator David Boren is president. He and another former Democratic Senator, Sam Nunn of Georgia, will be joined by 17 like-minded souls, including William Cohen, the former Republican Senator who served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, and Chuck Hagel, the maverick GOP Senator from Nebraska who plans to leave office after this year. The meeting's purpose: to urge the major party candidates to embrace bipartisan governance...
...Nowhere are voters being watched more closely than in New Hampshire, which holds its primary Jan. 8. Eight years ago, more than 60% of those who were registered as undeclared stampeded into the Republican primary, giving Arizona Senator John McCain an unexpected 18-point landslide over the GOP establishment favorite, then Texas Governor George W. Bush. (Among those who identified themselves as Republicans in exit polls, Bush beat McCain by 3 percentage points.) This year all indications are that undeclareds - who are now 44% of all registered New Hampshire voters and constitute the largest share of the electorate - will...
...Democratic candidates, facing sanctions from the national party because the state moved its primary date so early, aren't seriously competing there. But the Republican contest will be a spirited one, meaning that independents - and even some Democrats - will be drawn into the action. McCain won the last contested GOP primary there in 2000, but Mitt Romney - who grew up in Michigan and whose father was Governor of the state in the '60s - is making a serious bid tailored to independents' tastes. Though Romney pitched himself as a social conservative to Iowa's Republicans, his ads in Michigan and South...
...elbow out New York Times and New Yorker reporters, along with the guests of two TV networks that have arranged for private seating. For the hundreds of less moneyed reporters in town for the holiday, Carrie Giddins, the spokeswoman for the Iowa Democratic Party, and Mary Tiffany, her GOP counterpart, have joined forces to throw "Raucous Before the Caucus," a big bash with a jazz band at the Temple for the Performing Arts downtown - the $25 entrance fee gets journos a taste of Iowa, including State Fair favorites like fried Twinkies and corn dogs...
...when a blizzard shut down flights between New Hampshire and D.C., Diaz rented a car and drove all the way to Manchester just to be there when the Senator arrived. "Oftentimes, just by being honest and committed, and being focused, you can achieve unbelievable results," he says. Considering the GOP's approval ratings, Diaz has his work...