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 United States Republican Party: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about United States Republican Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Republican party is a United States political party that was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin[?] on February 28, 1854 as an anti-slavery party.
The party of Lincoln was originally characterized by its opposition to the expansion of slavery.
The party's current position as firmly to the right of the Democrats was cemented by the "Southern strategy" employed by Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, followed by the Goldwater-inspired candidacy and election of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election.
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 Irish Republican Army - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Irish Republican Army first emerged as the army of the Irish Republic that had been declared at the Easter Rising of 1916 and affirmed by the First Dail in January 1919.
Though Republican history often claimed that the Rising and its leaders had public support, in reality there were widespread calls for the execution of the ringleaders, coming from the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the 'Irish Independent' and local authorities.
The party's then-leader, Arthur Griffith, was campaigning for a dual monarchy with Britain, a return to the status quo of the so-called 'Constitution of 1782', forged in Grattan's Parliament.
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 Republican Party (United States)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) http://www.gop.com/About/Default.aspx?Section=2, is one of the two major political parties in the United States.
Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, it is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.
In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Republican Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana and Ohio was the eagle, as opposed to the Democratic rooster.
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 Rush County Republican Party - About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alan Earl Bovay, one of the founders of the Republican Party, believed that a new party should be formed to represent the interests of the North and the abolitionists.
Responsive to the role of women in both party politics and government, Republicans were the first to recognize women in their platform: "The Republican Party is mindful of its obligations to the loyal women of America for their noble devotion to the cause of freedom.
The origin of the term "Republican" goes back to the time of Thomas Jefferson and was tied in with the use of the term "Democrat." But the term was not used to refer to one of the modern political parties until 1854.
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 Free-Essays.us - Republican Party
REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republican party is one of the two major POLITICAL PARTIES in the United States, the other being the DEMOCRATIC PARTY party.
Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1918 elections and, at the end of the war, prevented the United States from joining the League of Nations by rejecting ratification of the Versailles Treaty.
After a bitter internal party struggle prior to the 1964 Republican convention, Sen. Barry M. GOLDWATER of Arizona wrested the presidential nomination and control of the Republican party away from the Eastern moderates and began an attempt to convert the party into an ideologically pure conservative party.
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 Animals Republican Party Elephant Symbol Of The Republican Party Is The Elephant
The symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant.
The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that The symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant.
The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former the Democratic Party was a donkey and the Republican Party, an elephant.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: The Republican Party
The Republican Party - also known as the Grand Old Party or GOP - was founded in the 1850s, drawing in members of the northern Democrats and others opposed to the expansion of slavery into the new western territories of the US.
Republicans had high hopes for his successor, George Bush, but in spite of his record on foreign policy, the Bush presidency proved a disappointment to many conservatives.
The party of Newt Gingrich's anti-government revolution was now backing vastly increased military spending, despite growing fiscal deficits, and the biggest expansion of the federal bureaucracy since World War II with the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security.
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 US Republican Party, overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Republican Party was one of the original parties in Janda's 1950-1962 ICPP study.
Nearly always the minority party in Congress, the Republicans fared much better in presidential elections, winning four of the seven and holding the presidency for 16 of the 29 years from 1950 to 1978 (Eisenhower in 1953-1960 and Nixon in 1969-1976).
The 1994 election has been dubbed the "Republican Revolution," for the party took control of the House for the first time since 1954 and also wrested back control of the Senate.
www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1990/00-US/Party002/Party002-hj.htm   (183 words)

  
 News & Analysis: A Brief Guide to the Iraqi Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The bar does not, though, apply to either Ahmed Chalabi, a US appointee to the interim government who has been convicted (in his absence) of massive fraud, or Ayad Allawi, US-appointed interim prime minister, who was a covert CIA operative commanding bombings including a school bus and a cinema in Iraq during Saddam's rule.
US officials, mainly remaining anonymous, have made it abundantly clear that the elections are free only within the parameters set by the US government.
The US is prepared to 'tolerate' a limited form of theocracy, according to one.
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 US Republican Party threatens to sue the INQUIRER
US Republican Party threatens to sue the INQUIRER
US Republican Party denies it's outsourcing to India
The term "The Republican Party" can only be interpreted as referring to the RNC, and the RNC has never contracted with the referenced companies.
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 Religious right crams into Lib branches - National - www.smh.com.au
Already party moderates are claiming that right-wing Catholics, including members of the secretive Opus Dei organisation, have helped stack branches, taking control of the Young Liberals from the moderates for the first time in decades.
Many of the Liberal Party's new members are against abortion, stem cell research and lowering the age of consent for homosexuals.
One senior party source, who asked not to be named, said: "Our polling shows that some of these issues are election losers with marginal voters and our supporters".
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/04/11/1081621842301.html   (557 words)

  
 About Us | Republican Party of Louisiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Louisiana Republican Party represents the values of the majority of the citizens of Louisiana.
The Republican Party is strong, principled and conservative.
Membership in the Republican Party of Louisiana is open to all citizens residing in our state who share the values and beliefs expressed in this document.
www.lagop.com /about.html   (232 words)

  
 US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India
US Republican party threatens to sue the INQUIRER and US Republican Party denies it's outsourcing to India Both of these stories have links.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.
Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone American citizens to enlist their support and money for the political party, with plans to extend the scheme if they whip up enough donations.
www.theinquirer.net /?article=11219   (303 words)

  
 List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Republican Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of celebrities with links to the US Republican Party includes living Americans widely renowned outside of politics who are or have been supporters of candidates of the United States Republican Party.
Adam Baldwin, is a Republican even stating his views on-line at Fireflyfans.net.
Dean Jones, actor, Republican activist, 2003 guest of the California Republican Assembly.
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 Thomas D. DeLay - SourceWatch
However, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, after a closed-door meeting, "unanimously elected Roy Blunt of Missouri as their majority leader." Republicans said that "Blunt's position was an interim arrangement for the rest of the year and that he would share leadership responsibilities with Rep. David Dreier of California," Reuters reported (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1167533).
After the 1990 census, the Texas Democrats drew what some Republicans would argue was the most effective partisan gerrymander in the country.
After the 2000 census, Republicans sought to redraw the district lines to support a GOP majority in the congressional delegation while Democrats desired to retain a plan similar to the existing lines.
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 Republican Party of Florida
The Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Americans are looking to their leaders for answers to the tragedy and reassurances that the mistakes made in the response will not be repeated in their own communities.
Hoping to recruit an "army" of Republican legislators to defend his education policies when he's gone, Gov. Jeb Bush privately briefed 20 GOP lawmakers Tuesday on progress Florida students have made during his tenure.
www.rpof.org   (177 words)

  
 Leiter Reports: Guest Blogger William Edmundson Oct. 17-23: March 2005
In general, the pattern is clear: the "peer reputation" scores among academics are basically gravitating towards the typical overall US News rank of the school, i.e., the "reputation" is being determined by the typical US News ranking which, itself, purports to be based in significant part (25%) on reputation.
May the Republican party become once again a party of reason, and meanwhile may the Democratic party become once again a party of actually doing something worthwhile instead of flopping around like an earthworm caught in a puddle on the sidewalk.
It is the U.S., not France or China or any other power, which claims that it alone must "bring freedom to the world." This would not be the first way in which the U.S. is out of step, and out of touch, with most of the rest of the world.
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 Best us republican party Site Resources - FREE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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With a core belief in the idea of the primacy of individuals, the Republican Party, since its inception...
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 US Republican Party raises $32.3 mln in Q1
The US Republican National Committee (RNC) raised a total of 32.3 million US dollars in the first three months this year, more than double that raised by the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The amount, which included 10.7 million dollars raised in March, was a fund-raising record for the first quarter of a non-presidential election year, the RNC said in a statement on Monday.
During the first three months in 2005, the DNC raised 13.8 million dollars, which included about 1 million dollars a weeksince Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, was elected its chairman in mid-February.
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 GOPAC Home
As GOPAC chairman, I am committed to recruiting and training outstanding new Republican candidates, campaign staff, and activists nationwide - and building a deeper farm team for our party at the state and local levels.
It's my strong belief that by building a party for all Americans, we will be a stronger America.
With the election of 2004 behind us, Republicans are fortunate to have a Republican president in the White House, and majorities in both houses of congress - as well as a majority of governors in the states
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 National Libertarian Party
Virginia Libertarian in Hotly Contested Three-Way Delegate Race - Libertarian Party member and longtime Northern Virginia resident, Chuck Eby, is running for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 67th District.
Louisiana LP chair joins rescue effort - Vinson Mouser, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Louisiana, lives about an hour and a half from New Orleans, so he was pretty far removed from the immediate damage caused on Aug. 29 and following days by Hurricane Katrina and by the failure of levees surrounding that city.
North Carolina removes LP ballot access - The North Carolina Board of Elections on Aug. 22 decertified the Libertarian Party — removing the LP from the ballot in all elections in the state.
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 Scotland on Sunday - Politics - Euan Blair joins US Republican party for work placement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
EUAN Blair, the Prime Minister's eldest son, is to take up an intern post in Washington working for a leading Republican congressman, it emerged last night.
Questions were already being raised last night about how Blair had secured the highly sought-after position, particularly in the light of the close relationship between Bush and the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, Democrat leaders in Washington were reportedly "extremely surprised" that the son of a British Labour Prime Minister would seek to work with a Republican.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=704862005   (528 words)

  
 NewsForge | US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India
All I can say is, the Republician party is out of touch with average americans, and average americans are to stupid to realize it.
I think this is a good thing because no smart American would do any barn raising i mean fund raising for the republican party.
The larger general problem is that all our skilled work in the US is disappearing; this article simply pushes that button.
www.newsforge.com /newsvac/03/08/27/1319252.shtml   (615 words)

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