Word: gop
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McCain's first Montana TV ads appeared just two weeks ago. There appears to be some kind of rushed response to the tightening at the polls. The Montana state GOP challenged the registration of 6,000 voters in seven predominantly Democratic counties but drew a stern admonition from a federal judge. The Republican executive director lost his job shortly after...
...Regardless of their reasons, Republicans are also pouring into the polls in Missouri. GOP leaders reported heavy turnouts and said their carefully targeted late efforts were inspiring likely McCain voters. While Obama blanketed Missouri, they said, McCain employed a laser...
...outspent, but basically Obama just flew over the state of Missouri and dropped flyers on the ground," said Tina Hervey, spokeswoman for the state Republican party. Even the staff at GOP headquarters received get-out-the-vote calls from Obama. "But he's not going to get me," Hervey said. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...
...ashamed that my side, 'the good guys', would rip off his sign," Sadun told TIME in an email. "So I decided to replace it, partly as penance and partly to show him, and the neighborhood, that we really are the good guys." Sadun headed to the downtown GOP office, a quiet, low key operation, and asked for a sign for his neighbor. "I want to put in a good word for the workers at the GOP office, who were extremely friendly, even after I explained that I was a Democratic precinct chair. They understand that Democrats and Republicans...
Montana: McCain's Late Stand, 10:30 a.m. E.T. Montana has only three electoral votes and has gone GOP in almost every presidential race for the past four decades. (LBJ won it in 1964; but Bill Clinton took it in 1992 only because Ross Perot chomped into what would have been the Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.) In 2008, however, the Obama campaign organized early for the Democratic primary there and has maintained its presence. Indeed, it has been running local TV spots continuously since June. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle made several trips...