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GOP Struggles To Define Its Message for 2006 Elections
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 20, 2006 05:55pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, March 20, 2006 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican efforts to craft a policy and political agenda to carry the party into the midterm elections have stumbled repeatedly as GOP leaders face widespread disaffection and disagreement within the ranks.
Anxiety over President Bush's Iraq policy, internal clashes over such divisive issues as immigration, and rising complaints that the party has abandoned conservative principles on spending restraint have all hobbled the effort to devise an election-year message, said several lawmakers involved in the effort.
While it is a Republican refrain that Democrats criticize Bush but have no positive vision, for now the governing party also has no national platform around which lawmakers are prepared to rally.
Every effort so far to produce such a platform has stumbled. |
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