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...August, the dark horse had enough support to generate 2,587 votes at the Ames straw poll, a fund-raising fandango for the Iowa GOP at which candidates pay to have their supporters attend. Huckabee finished a distant second behind free-spending Romney, while Giuliani and McCain skipped the event entirely. But veteran pols noted that Huckabee's tally exceeded the number of tickets he bought--speculating that people were taking Romney's freebies but casting their ballots for Huckabee...
...former Majority Leader Trent Lott became the seventh Republican to announce plans to depart the Senate. The move has fanned Democratic hopes of a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in that chamber and GOP fears that the party is in a downward spiral...
Lott plans to step down before the end of the year, which means Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour can replace him with a Republican who can then run as an incumbent in a special election next year. But retiring GOP Senators from Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Idaho are all planning to serve out their terms--leaving their seats open to challengers and, in many cases, divisive and expensive primaries. Republicans also have four vulnerable Senators running in purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes...
...heading into ’08. On the other side, many claim that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani would suddenly put states like New York and New Jersey into play for the Republicans, thus putting the Democrats on the defensive and retaining the White House for GOP control...
...that to fund the wars through the winter, but with conditions attached - most importantly, calling for an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq by 2009. Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster on November 16. House Democrats argue that a phone call from Bush to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to pass the legislation would end the impasse - if Bush would accept the accompanying deadline on U.S. combat operations...