Republicans fight over conservative credentials
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It's not enough for U.S. Republican presidential candidates to be conservatives. They've got to be bigger and better conservatives to win the hearts of right-wing America.
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Conservative voters are feeling glum about the Republican Presidential frontrunners. What they really should be lamenting is the collapse of their pet issue: national security
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The Christian conservative leader is still mulling a GOP endorsement. But his influence may not be what it once was
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A look at conservative Republicans and their preferences for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, based on recent Associated Press-Ipsos polls.
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Political conservatives have their best opportunity in years to push successfully for changes to taxes, entitlements and the courts &#151; but they face a special set of obstacles.
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The spectacular rise of Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, now a lead contender for the Republican presidential nomination, runs counter to the wishes of the party's conservative elite.
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A conservative backlash to the massive street demonstrations over immigration is aggravating Republican leaders&#039; carefully orchestrated plans to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act before the fall elections.
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Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney defended their conservative credentials in the face of pointed attacks from their rivals Sunday night in the most aggressive debate to date of the race for the White House.
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Christian conservatives, traditionally a reliable Republican constituency, aren't necessarily a GOP gimme this time around. There is an undercurrent of concern that some evangelicals, unhappy that the GOP-led Congress and President Bush haven't paid more attention to gay marriage and other "values" issues, may stay home on Election Day or even vote Democratic.
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An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Republicans are scrambling to contain the damage of two separate political headaches that share a common theme &#151; accusations that the GOP is hiding the truth.
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Republican White House hopefuls Friday tried to convert skeptical Christian conservatives to their causes, wooing a crucial party power base taking a dim view of the party's 2008 line-up.
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The Republican presidential candidate tries to assuage thousands of conservative Christians that he is one among them.
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For Saturday's crucial primary, the GOP candidates are busy reframing the issues and shoring up their conservative credentials
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Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology.
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Christian conservatives, whose lack of enthusiasm for George W. Bush in 2000 worried Republicans, could be the president's ace in the hole in his race for re-election this time around.
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Republican presidential candidates clashed Sunday over who is conservative enough to defeat Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, ahead of an evening debate in Florida.