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• Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community (#): ... Before that, the Democrats won a special election in former Speaker Dennis Hastert's old seat. If the Republicans lose their third special election in a row, there is going to be full blown panic . Rank-and-file Republicans say that would force a day of reckoning for their leadership. "When you connect three dots in anything, that's a bad thing. This connects the dots. ...
• Prometheus 6 | All respect and no restraint (#): ... 6 in Politics As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 11, 2008; A13 Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any ...
• D-Day (#): ... But this is of course where the GOP stands right now - in trouble of losing House races in the whitest areas of Mississippi - and starting to acknowledge their historically bad position. The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn't be higher, strategically or symbolically. ...