Word: rnc
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...Republican Party worked to keep them in the fold. In the late 1990s, the Republican National Committee (RNC) created a Catholic Task Force, and by the end of the 2000 election cycle, the party had compiled a list of 3 million church-attending Catholics. The RNC spent $2.5 million contacting these targeted Catholics with direct mail and phone calls...
...Rely on the Historic RNC Advantage March was a good example of the disparity between the two candidates' financial machines. McCain attended 26 fund raisers in 24 cities, raising about $15 million. Obama, who was still engaged in a nomination fight, raised more than $40 million, and attended just six fund raisers. God bless the Internet. Much of that Obama money will now be channeled into a major voter registration and get-out-the-vote operation. The McCain campaign hopes to contain the Obama advantage by depending heavily on the Republican Party machinery, which has a historically superior general election...
...about judicial appointments and the courts. "One of the most important things Bush will be remembered for is the fact that he put two justices on the Supreme Court who embrace a more textualist understanding of the constitution," says Leonard Leo, national co-chair of Catholic outreach for the RNC. "That accomplishment plays out here," he says...
...assertiveness stunned the country, it angered both the Democratic and Republican National Committees, whose rules forbade it. Both parties threatened sanctions; but only the DNC came down hard, refusing to seat Florida's delegates at the Democratic convention this summer, essentially nullifying the state's Democratic primary results. The RNC banned some of Florida's delegates too, but it wasn't about to go as draconian as the Dems - whose candidates even signed a pact not to campaign on the peninsula before the primary - and risk weakening the stature of one of its most popular governors...
...problem, however, is that Wyoming may declare for no clear favorite of its own on Jan. 5. Jan Larimer, Wyoming's national-level state committeewoman, who will lose her own 2008 convention seat under the RNC penalty, says, "It would be nice if we had a winner. I have no sense of any favorite so far. I think we're going to have a very mixed bag. I think we're going to have quite a few undecided, those not bound to support any one candidate." The 12 delegates who will be chosen on Saturday each have to represent...