Jeb Bush has called Asian-Americans the canary in the Republican Party’s coal mine. Look past the 71 percent of Hispanic voters who sided with President Barack Obama in November, the Florida Republican has suggested, and one will find the 74...
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets Asian American supporters as he campaigns at Van Dyck park in Fairfax, Va., on Sept. 13, 2012.
RNC’s Asian-American Outreach: Hires
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Priebus: ‘Traveling Circus’ Out — ‘Biologically Stupid’ Talk Forbidden
It was Bobby Jindal who warned his party to “stop being the stupid party.” And Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said today that his party needs to stop running around saying “biologically stupid things” — and avoid...
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A student during spring break on South Padre Island, Texas.
Washington Daybook: Not Quite Spring
Lawmakers, like college students, are looking forward to Spring break, with two weeks away from Washington to relax and celebrate Easter and Passover with family and constituents. But first, that small matter of keeping the government funded past next week....
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Texas delegates during the 2012 Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida on August 30, 2012.
RNC Told: Fewer Debates, More Populism, More Women on TV
Updated at 9:40 am EDT A Republican National Committee report says the party should change the way it recruits candidates, talks to voters, uses technology, raises money and reaches out to minorities in an effort to appeal to a broader base of voters and...
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in Iowa.
Jindal’s Warning to ‘The Stupid Party’
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is a “shining star” of the Republican Party, “someone you can believe in,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said last night in Charlotte as he introduced the RNC winter convention’s keynote speaker. Jindal proceeded to...
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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
Republican Re-branding Mirrored by States: ‘Lincoln Republicans’
As Republican National Committee members meet in Charlotte to plot a way toward more electoral success, state parties are copying the national party’s reinvention study. Pat Brady, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, announced today that he’s forming his own...
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Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 27, 2012.
Rebranding Republicans No Tea Party for Priebus, Re-Election Ready
As members of the Republican National Committee gather today in Charlotte, Chairman Reince Priebus is facing what’s expected to be an easy ride to re-election on Friday. That doesn’t mean his second, two-year term won’t be filled with plenty of...
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Delegates sit at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa.
RNC Asks What Went Wrong — Working on Getting it Right in 2016
The Republican National Committee has created a study group to examine ways to improve the party’s image and win more elections. The initiative, called the Growth and Opportunity Project, was announced today by party chairman Reince Priebus and comes after...
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War Over Women, Not Caterpillars
“We’ll pay for our own birth control, thank you very much,” says the female narrator at the end of a minute-long political action committee ad. It is the president who is waging a war on women, the ad contends, reeling...
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Rolled steel sections wait to welded together to form an oil tank at Westerman Companies Inc., a company that manufactures oil tanks for the fracking industry in Bremen, Ohio.
Washington Daybook: Going Underground
It could all come down to fracking. While polls show President Barack Obama may have bested Republican challenger Mitt Romney in last night’s debate on foreign policy, what just might decide who wins the Nov. 6 elections isn’t overseas, it’s underground....
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