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G.O.P. Senses Opportunities In Statehouses
nytimes.com - 10/25/2008
G.O.P. Senses Opportunities In Statehouses
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Lawmakers in statehouses across the country are finding there are as many opportunities for Republicans as Democrats. >

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The Saturday Word: Back on the Trail
The Caucus — ... all together, calling 2008 a day and planning to rebuild in the future. But, but, but: all is not lost yet for the G.O.P. Down ballot, Republicans are seeing opportunities to flip state legislatures. “The bad news for Republicans in 2006, when Democrats surged to power and majority control in many legislative chambers, is now their good fortune as Democrats struggle to retain those gains,” writes The Times’s Kirk Johnson . And the White House is asking the Justice Department to look into whether 200,000 new Ohio voters should have to ...

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