Special election draws 5 for DeLay seat
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Five people will run in the special election to temporarily fill the seat vacated by former House Majority leader Tom DeLay, the secretary of state's office said Friday.
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Joining the rush to the front of presidential nominating calendar, the Colorado Republican Party has moved its presidential caucuses up five weeks to Feb. 5.
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In a glimpse of what the nation might see a month from now, people lined up at election offices and caused parking lot traffic jams as voter registration deadlines fell Monday in more than a dozen states.    Many officials reported record numbers of new voters, some said they were overwhelmed, and allegations were already flying about fraud and the disqualification of some voters' applications...
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House Republicans are changing party rules to protect their leader, native Texan, Tom DeLay. The GOP is trying to help DeLay keep his job, even if he`s indicted by a Texas grand jury.
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House Republicans moved Wednesday to protect controversial Majority Leader Tom DeLay's job in case he is indicted by a Texas grand jury on political corruption charges. The Republicans changed an 11-year-old rule to do so.
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Republican Party leaders on Monday recommended punishing five states for shifting their nomination contests earlier
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The race to replace the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood on Capitol Hill appears headed to a runoff. Former state Sen. Jim Whitehead, a Republican, led the crowded field of 10 candidates in Tuesday's special election. But he was unable to crack the 50 percent mark needed to claim the seat.
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Dogged by scandal, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he will do whatever is necessary to remove his name from the ballot, a step that will allow the party to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding his seat in Texas.
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Leaving behind a pile of unfinished work, members of the scandal-rocked U.S. Congress adjourned and went home on Saturday to ask voters to re-elect them in five weeks.
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Beyond a high-profile race in Illinois that will put a black in the U.S. Senate for only the fifth time, two Hispanics and one person who is part Native American are expected to win seats in November in the virtually all-white chamber.
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In what may be their last hope of reclaiming an evaporated lead in the Washington governor&#39;s race before turning to the courts, Republicans have asked county auditors statewide to reconsider ballots that were rejected on Election Day.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday called for a June 19 special election to fill the House seat left vacant by the death of GOP Rep. Charles Norwood.
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A state judge ruled Monday that the sign-up period should be reopened for the Nov. 2 election in Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Rodney Alexander infuriated Democrats by switching to the Republican Party minutes before the qualifying deadline.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As it has done for 200 years, Ohio&#39;s delegation to the Electoral College is to meet today to cast ballots for president and vice president -- but this time, there are demands that the electors wait until after a scheduled recount.
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The Republican National Committee plans to penalize at least five states holding early primaries, by refusing to seat at least half of their delegates at the national convention in 2008.
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Registered voters who have been somehow unregistered. Democrats who suddenly find they&#39;ve been re-registered as Republicans. A flier announcing that Election Day has been extended through Wednesday.
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The presidential race isn't the only important election this year. At least 470 congressional seats will be up for grabs in November, with Democrats hoping to expand their narrow majorities and crack some of the impasses that have stymied action on many issues.