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California's 33rd Congressional District is hard-core Democrat. Ethnically diverse, cutting a swath from Hollywood through the city's historic black heartland, it's so thick with Democrats that John Kerry won 83 percent of the vote during the 2004 presidential election. Republicans didn't even bother to field a candidate in the last U.S. House race. So why would Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney be interested in voters here? In a twist on political logic, heavily Democratic patches in California are being fiercely contested by some Republican presidential candidates because of a change in state election rules. For the first time in a...

Republican presidential hopefuls are seeking the blessing of the woman called conservatism’s "last remaining great icon” – former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Fred Thompson, said to be on the verge of announcing his candidacy, visited Thatcher in London last month, saying he wanted to "remind her of America’s affection for her and pay our respects,” the New York Sun reported. Mitt Romney had an audience with Thatcher last fall. Now Rudy Giuliani has made plans to travel to London in September and deliver the inaugural Margaret Thatcher memorial lecture to the Atlantic Bridge think tank. He too will meet...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother and the final attorney for her family are criticizing some of the leading Republican contenders for president. They say the candidates are ill-informed about the facts surrounding the debate over Terri's life and the reasons behind the legislation Congress approved trying to help prevent her euthanasia death.During the first GOP primary debate, Schindler family attorney David Gibbs says they demonstrated that they do not understand the important disability issues involved in the 2005 Terri Schiavo case.In comments on the case, Gov. Mitt Romney said he thought it "was a mistake" for Congress to...

Speculation rages as to who will run for president in 2008. It takes only a few minutes of conversation with Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia to understand why top-level Republicans are encouraging him to run. His easy charm, straight talk, quick wit, mental acuity and experience separate him from the pack of would-be candidates. Formerly the governor of Virginia, Sen. Allen also served as a U.S. representative and in the Virginia House of Delegates. Now serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he's putting his experience to work around the globe. While on a recent trip to the Middle...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney met both support and opposition during a California trip aimed at rallying for Republican congressional candidates. At a Riverside hotel Tuesday, Cheney cheered on U.S. Senate candidate Bill Jones, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. He said Jones was in lockstep with President Bush on issues of national security, the economy and tax reform, and portrayed Boxer as being out of touch with Californians. Outside the $1,000 per plate dinner that attracted about 200 people to the Mission Inn, several hundred protesters and Bush supporters faced off on opposite street corners....