This may not bode well for a Republican Party whose base is predominantly white and older.
"It's very hard for a Republican to win the presidency without Virginia, " he said.
He also voted for a Republican budget that sought to axe the entire Commerce Department.
Anywhere else, local Republican support for a Republican president would seem to be inevitable.
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Heretically for a Republican, he favours background checks for those who buy guns at gun shows.
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Mr Peel is thinking of voting for a Republican, any Republican, to replace him.
Mr DeLay has a political action committee called Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC).
"I think whatever I'm for, it's very hard for a Republican to also be for, " he said.
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I'm not hoping for a Republican presidency, but if it happens you can add at least 10% on to Aetna.
So the first thing he did was to defeat the alternative vision for a Republican Party that was separated from principle.
Two other DeLay associates, including John Colliandro, who's the executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority, are also facing charges.
He knows, of course, that even a successful campaign for a Republican presidential candidate won't do all that well among black voters.
For a Republican candidate, the site -- launched Monday and separate from his main campaign site, Newt.org -- is cutting-edge in its versatility.
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Many Mexican-Americans -- who along with naturalized Mexicans, represent nearly 70% of the Latino population -- would never think of voting for a Republican.
The time-honoured way for a Republican opposition to undermine a Democratic president is to depict him as profligate with the nation's treasure and careless of its security.
The host of the debate, a black pastor resplendent in gold-and-green-striped suit-sleeves, declared that this was the first time he had even considered voting for a Republican.
He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be the voice-over for a Republican campaign commercial.
The very same small business operators and hard-working American wage earners who, on election day, cast their votes for a Republican Party that bills itself as the party of fiscal responsibility.
The elections marked only the second time since 1934 that a president's party did not lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
In a Newsweek poll earlier this month, 27 percent of registered voters said the scandal and how the leadership handled it made them less likely to vote for a Republican Congressional candidate.
John Ashcroft, publisher Steve Forbes, former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and former vice president Dan Quayle will be quick to interpret the results as a show of support for a Republican president in 2000.
Those indicted this week include Jim Ellis, one of Mr DeLay's leading political aides, John Colyandro, whom Mr DeLay chose to run Texans for a Republican Majority, and Warren Robold, a long-time DeLay fundraiser.
You know I've never - I've not said that I'm voting for Senator Barack Obama, but I'm saying that I will not blindly go into the November election as I've done in the past and automatically vote for a Republican.
The Republican Party built on its majority in the House of Representatives, marking only the second time since 1934 that a sitting president's party didn't lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
On September 21st, prosecutors from Travis County led by Ronnie Earle (as it happens, the only Democrat left with any real power in the state) indicted three friends of Mr DeLay and eight corporations said to have contributed to Texans for a Republican Majority, a group the former pest exterminator founded, on 32 felony charges.
In the Senate, Snowe is pivotal to the health-care debate because she may be Obama's last possibility for getting a Republican to support his push for a health-care overhaul.
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Exploiting the current national unease with George W. Bush and his policies will be a trick for any Republican Presidential candidate, given a two-term Republican President who had a Republican Congress to work with for most of his tenure.
Ken Mehlman, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will not return for a second term next year and lots of fingers are pointing at White House political advisor Karl Rove, whose vision for a permanent Republican majority suffered this week.
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