Politics - Republican Party

New York Republican House nominee Dede Scozzafava -- a moderate who was abandoned by conservative activists for a third-party candidate -- followed her stunning withdrawal from the contest Saturday with another shocker on Sunday: She has urged her supporters to vote for Democratic nominee Bill Owens over Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman, on Tuesday in the 23rd Congressional District's special election. Full Story »

WASHINGTON — Under fire from prominent members of her own party who said she wasn't conservative enough, the Republican candidate for an open U.S. House seat in New York abruptly withdraw from the race Saturday just days before the election. Full Story »

Tuesday's special House election in New York's 23rd District is drawing the attentions of some conservative Republican House hopefuls around the nation, who are publicizing their support for accountant Doug Hoffman -- the nominee of New York's Conservative Party, whose unusually strong third-party bid has catapulted him ahead of state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, a Republican moderate, in polls and has placed him about even with attorney Bill Owens, the Democratic nominee. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- The future of the Republican Party will be tested Tuesday in upstate New York. Full Story »

Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds, the nominees in Tuesday's election for Virginia governor, were opponents four years ago in a state attorney general's election so close that Republican McDonnell wasn't confirmed as the winner until four days before Christmas. Full Story »

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen reveled Thursday in the Republican infighting on display in the campaign for the open House seat in upstate New York. Full Story »

After a devastating loss last year in Ohio's 16th district, Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Ohio are promoting a different kind of candidate as they try to unseat freshman Rep. John Boccieri in a historically GOP-leaning area in and around Canton. Full Story »

Former New Hampshire Rep. Charles Bass' now-likely bid to reclaim his old House seat has elevated the Republican Party's hopes of capturing the open seat in New Hampshire's 2nd District - even though voters there, who generally have been trending Democratic, rejected the GOP centrist's bid for a seventh House term in 2006. Full Story »

The big gains House Democrats made in the past two election cycles largely resulted from "spreading the playing field," jargon for the party's efforts to compete for seats that in years past it essentially ceded to the Republicans. Full Story »

Attorney General Martha Coakley continues to look strong against both her fellow Democratic candidates and against the likely Republican nominee in the Massachusetts Senate special election, according to a Western New England College Polling Institute survey conducted Oct. 18-22. Full Story »

House Republicans trying to thwart Democrats' plans for a health care overhaul are questioning the motives of AARP, the 40-million-member seniors' organization that the GOP accuses of putting its own interests ahead of its members'. Full Story »

The National Republican Congressional Committee will announce Tuesday that nine challenger and open-seat candidates have impressed the committee enough with their early efforts to be bumped up to the next rung of the recently retooled "Young Guns" campaign program. Full Story »

House GOP Candidates Bank More Money Full Story »

More Troubles for GOP Nominee in N.Y. Special Full Story »

House Republicans are devising a political platform -- informally dubbed "Ten for '10"-- to better position their party for the 2010 midterm elections -- a moniker oddly reminiscent of the game plan Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to mount the Democratic takeover in 2006. Full Story »

Oklahoma Seat Likely to Fall in Line for GOP Full Story »

Out of the half-dozen Republicans who have filed for Oklahoma's 5th District open seat, three GOP front-runners have emerged and it's a safe bet that two of them will face off in an August 2010 primary runoff. Full Story »

New York Republican Dede Scozzafava's House special election campaign took a one-two punch Thursday night. Full Story »