However hardline Ulster Unionist Jeffrey Donaldson said the latest IRA statement should not change party policy.
Martinelli, of the Democratic Change party, rivals her in the polls but comes from a very small party with only 3 seats in the National Assembly.
What is almost certain in 1998 is that Ohio and Indiana Senate seats will change party control (Ohio is a Democratic-held seat and Indiana is a Republican-held seat).
Don't expect any Senators to change their party stripes for a committee chairmanship from the enemy.
Labor delegates to the conference voted 206-185 in favour of the motion to change the party's policy.
Such a change in party allegiance across a vast section of the electorate takes decades to achieve, and to undo.
Some Republicans, however, think the best way to change the party's battered image would be to pick Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
Even with a decisive win Sunday, it remains to be seen whether Hatoyama can bring the kind of change his party is promising.
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson told reporters Saturday that GOP governors will be used to try to change the party's image and attract more followers.
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MPs who change their party allegiance automatically lose their seats.
The Liberal Democrats are to propose "the most radical tax change any party has put forward in this country for generations" in their manifesto, to be published later today.
If she really wants to change the party in her own image, she'll need to work very hard from within to remake this notoriously broad church in her own image.
"Some people are telling me they're Republicans and they're pretty upset with what's going on, and they just want to change their party, " said Rose Fonda of the San Mateo Board of Elections.
After all, Mr Gandhi's father, Rajiv, had promised to change the party and its ethos in a similarly stirring speech in 1985, before he went on to be prime minister and was later assassinated.
And the word is, as I said, the Blue Dogs started right after the 1994 election, where there was a massive party change in Washington, and the Blue Dogs started to choke so hard on where the national party was going that they turned blue.
In the only gubernatorial party change, CNN projects Democratic candidate Jay Nixon will win the governor's seat in Missouri, beating Republican Kenny Hulshof.
Joe Gomez, a 49-year-old businessman and lifelong Republican in San Antonio, is eager to see his party change and diversify, both in its candidates and its voter base.
Republicans, the survey shows, welcome the change within the party.
Mr Cortes also urged the Labour Party to change its policy to one of restoring state ownership, something the party is reported to be considering as part of its current policy review.
In March last year, Mr da Silva and his allies pushed through a change in the party's rules, so that the executive committee would be chosen by all members rather than by activists.
They want to change the Republic Party.
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His opposition to change in particular may be a price he is paying to convert his party to change in general.
The immigration question offers the GOP an opportunity to really demonstrate to the electorate that this is a party capable of change and that the rightward drift of the party can be reversed.
Meanwhile, Mr Wigley, who will be confirmed as Plaid honorary president at the conference, has told party magazine Triban Coch must change or "the consequences - for the party and for Wales - could be too horrendous to contemplate".
He says making the Medicare change part of the party's platform was no accident.
Like American reactionary movements of the past, the tea party resists change of any kind.
Instead, backed by Mr Fischer, they tried to persuade the party to change its rules.
Whereas the Republican majority in the Senate is unlikely to change significantly, the party's grip on the House is shaky.
The two clans' power, especially that of the Talabanis, from whose party the Change movement was mainly drawn, has been weakened.
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