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...Republican Club held a meeting yesterday evening, discussing their party's losses with former GOP Representative Susan Molinari, currently a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
WASHINGTON: It's a prediction Newt Gingrich will be a while living down: a GOP pickup of 40 seats in the House. But months later on Election Day, far from adding to their majority, Republicans were just hoping to hang onto it. Between Wednesday morning and January, the GOP rank-and-file members -- at least those that aren't packing their bags -- are going to be looking around for an explanation...
...have to ask themselves whether the leadership was stupid or the public was," says TIME Washington correspondent James Branegan. Did Newt, late in the budget battle, give up too much to the White House? Or is the public's tolerance of Bill Clinton something Republicans never really grasped? "The GOP shouldn't have messed with the Clintons this close to the election," says Branegan. And that was something Newt, for all his October missteps, very pointedly didn't do. Maybe it's not his fault after...
...Gore has more reason than most to be cheerful, with Democratic gains in California and the South jump-starting his presidential campaign. But there was a bright silver lining for the GOP: George W. Bush's victory in the Texas gubernatorial race, where he bucked national trends by collecting almost half of the Latino vote and nearly two thirds of the women's vote, confirms his big-tent appeal. And after Tuesday's setback, that's exactly what the Republicans will need...
...author of that quixotic campaign finance reform bill, won re-election Tuesday despite holding himself to the bill's strictures: no soft money and no thinly veiled "issue advocacy" ads. He won despite the fact that Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, looking to kill McCain-Feingold while it slept, pumped GOP party money into the coffers of challenger Mark Neumann until Neumann was outspending Feingold...