Word: gop
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After a break of 13 months, President Bush returns this week to frank partisan politicking with a trio of GOP fund-raising stops. Aides say those events are simply a prelude to a heavy schedule in support of Republican candidates for next year's midterm congressional elections. And Bush advisers point proudly to his campaign schedule as proof that PLENTY of Republicans are happy to be seen with the President, despite a few recent snubs from candidates who either passed on the opportunity to appear with him, or indcated that they would rather not do so at the moment...
...Bush aides say there will be no shying away. Republican officials note that Vice President Cheney has made so many appearances on behalf of '06 candidates that the administration has already surpassed its own contribution, at a similar point in time, for the GOP's '02 and '04 congressional campaigns. ?Next year, you're going to see the President as a strong and eager participant in campaigns for House and Senate and probably governor,? said an official familiar with his plans. ?Despite some of the polling atmospheric problems you're seeing in D.C., the President is still a tremendous draw...
...skeptical of President Bush, who will spend three days in China as part of his Asian tour, but that has hardly cooled their ardor for the Governator-few here know that the two are from the same political party or that Arnie mentioned the Tiananmen massacre in his GOP Convention speech last year. "If I lived in California, I'd vote for him," says Liu Tianyu, a project manager for a multinational firm in Shanghai. "I don't know much about his politics, but he has a very charming attitude...
...vocational school teaching carpentry and welding to teenagers in Honduras. Red, white and blue "Catholics for Kaine" bumper stickers proliferated in the Old Dominion. David Eichenbaum, Kaine's media strategist, tells TIME that he sees a recipe for national Democrats in Kaine's victory in Virginia, a GOP stronghold that President Bush won by 8 points in 2000 and 9 points in 2004. "Talking about his faith gave people a comfort level that he wasn't a big, scary liberal," Eichenbaum said. "We're trying to show voters that God isn't a Republican." Kaine echoed that in his acceptance...
...young black Republican, Andre Green is not your typical Cambridge politician. In a town where GOP might as well stand for “Greatly Out of Place,” the 24-year-old Cambridge City Council candidate says he takes pride in being different.“If I was like everyone else,” he says, “I wouldn’t have to run.”Friendly and formally dressed, Green sits at a table outside Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, explaining his seemingly unlikely bid for office. He stresses that...