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The Republican Party looks set to adopt platform planks at the upcoming GOP national convention in Tampa to support an audit of the Federal Reserve and to call for a commission to study a return to the gold standard, according to news reports. Analysts had a range of reactions to the news, varying from excitement to disdain and disbelief. Despite media claims that Republicans were seeking an end to centrally managed fiat currency and a return to gold-backed money, drafts of the platform revealed far less ambition. According to sources within the GOP cited in reports, the party is simply...

Posted by Chuck Muth June 25, 2006 at 4:46 pm JOHN JACOB DINGLE-BERRY SCHMIDT The old axiom that Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity has never been more in play than in this Tuesday’s GOP primary race in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Challenger John Jacob had the money to credibly take on incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon. And he had the hottest of red-hot issues: illegal immigration. Cannon, after all, is well known as a champion of amnesty for illegal aliens and Jacob has been successfully pounding him on it. In addition, Rep. Tom Tancredo’s Team America PAC,...

Posted November 4 2004 Enthusiastic volunteers knocking on doors, staffing phone banks and driving Republicans to the polls won Florida for President Bush, even managing to dampen Sen. John Kerry's strength in traditionally Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties. The state GOP reported that, in a burst of campaigning during the last four days before Election Day, 109,000 volunteers made 1.7 million personal contacts with voters. In comparison, four years ago Republican volunteers made just 77,000 such contacts -- telephone calls, door-to-door visits and buttonholing of voters in public places. "Our folks just worked their hearts out," said...

NOVEMBER 06, 05:24 ET Republicans Win Control of Congress By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer Exultant Republicans won control of both houses of Congress, handing President Bush historic bragging rights and two years to push through an agenda starting with deeper tax cuts. Sweetening the prize, Republicans claimed a majority of the governors' races and left Democrats grumbling about a popular wartime president. Bush made celebratory calls into the early morning hours Wednesday and already was talking of his own 2004 re-election campaign. White House advisers, boasting about a new mandate, were planning for the president to make a triumphal...

Congress likely to keep balance No matter who wins, margins of control expected to be small 11/04/2002 By CARL P. LEUBSDORF / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - For all the money and the campaigning and the negative ads, Tuesday's election could turn out to be something of a wash. President Bush and the Republicans still hope to regain full control of Congress. Democrats still see a good chance of retaining some leverage over the agenda by keeping their Senate majority. But either way, both houses may be so closely divided that compromises will still be needed to pass...