Word: repping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meanwhile, in Ohio, Rep. Ted Strickland, a former Methodist minister, took the state’s governorship in a rout, marking the first time that Ohio has seen a Democratic chief since...
...anti-G.O.P. agenda the White House and their Republican allies on the Hill had feared. "The campaign is over," Pelosi shouted on Election Night, grinning with confidence in front of hundreds of roaring supporters blocks from the Capitol in Washington D.C. "Democrats are ready to lead!" A hoarse Rep. Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the cheering supporters, "We'll give you the government that no longer lets you down." And he pledged to "reach across the partisan divide...
...third factor is that Democrats did a particularly good job this year of finding moderates and conservatives to run for elections in districts held by Republicans. The chairman of the House and Senate campaigns, Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel and New York Senator Charles Schumer, scouted for military veterans, retired sports stars and popular county sheriffs to challenge entrenched Republican incumbents who had drifted from their districts since the Republican takeover of 1994. They also encouraged their candidates to become more forceful in their criticism of the Iraq war, challenging the Republicans on the national security issue that had been their...
...Cambridge voters have only a handful of important choices apart from the marquee gubernatorial race. Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) is expected to easily win an eighth term over Republican Kenneth Chase, a lawyer and businessman who ran against Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) in 2004 and took 21 percent of the vote. A member of the Senate since 1962, Kennedy won 73 percent of the vote in his last election. Apart from the governorship, the attorney general is the only statewide office that is likely to change hands tomorrow...
...chairs of the Democrats' House and Senate campaign committees, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, announced a joint closing theme for the party on Monday morning: "Time for a New Direction on Iraq," and urged their voters to send a message rejecting what Emanuel calls "the Bush-Rumsfeld strategy in Iraq." Democrats say they were buoyed over the weekend by an Army Times editorial calling for Rumsfeld's resignation, as well as excerpts from an upcoming Vanity Fair article quoting key neoconservatives expressing pessimism about Iraq. "These pieces got us away from the broken...