Regardless, one Missouri state party operative gave Dean little chance, given his bitter battles with Gephardt.
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.
Now that Republicans control twenty trifectas across the country (state governments run by one party in the House, Senate, and Governorship) changes to state laws, redistricting, and electoral rules are all fair game.
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It is, of course, inherently ludicrous for a political party devoted to destroying Britain to complain about the failure of the British state to honour one of that party's most high-profile supporters.
Japan has gone from a one- to a two-party state, and now to what?
Officials say that one function of party cells in the non-state sector is to help ensure that such enterprises uphold the law.
Mr Mugabe and his sullen cronies, who have long assumed that the state and the ruling party are one and the same, may seek to divert the aid and dispense their patronage as before, in the hope that Mr Tsvangirai will soon get the blame.
Only one of the six state representatives in question won the party's endorsement at the subsequent election, and only two ended up keeping their seats.
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The dispute is rooted in state laws that require a presidential candidate to gather 5, 000 signatures of registered party voters statewide, including one-half-of-one-percent of registered party voters in each of the state's 31 congressional districts.
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The challenge, it says, is to create consensus on a policy that can be seen as that of the state, rather than of any one government or party.
Yet when Mr Checchi was obliged to beam down from the virtual world to the real one to attend a convention of the state's Democratic Party in Los Angeles on March 20th-22nd, he put on a dismal performance.
"Chris is under fire both for the top job in the transition and for secretary of state, " this informant, one of the Democratic Party's most respected Jewish leaders and a former high officeholder, told us.
"It's critically important in terms of its size and its swingy-ness, " said one veteran Democratic operative in the state who declined to be named discussing party strategy.
Since then, aside from one Austrian bodybuilder, the Republican Party has not elected a single individual to any state-wide office or held a majority in either house of the legislature.
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The problem is that any electoral strategy of this nature must rely on the election laws of the state when contemplating moves that work to the favor of one political party or the other.
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There is one wing that feels that the Republican Party was put on the Earth to reduce the state, and perhaps it was.
The state Republican Party would choose another candidate to run against McCaskill, considered one of the most vulnerable senators in the country.
After a state dinner, Bush and his party were bundled back onto Air Force One and shunted off to the president's next stop, Thailand.
The Democratic presidential candidates carried only one state in the south or mountain West in 2000 and 2004, so the party has decided that, to win at the national level again, it must drop support for gun control.
Mr Messina even hopes to expand the battlefield by targeting Arizona, a solidly Republican state in 2008, when one of its senators, John McCain, was the party's nominee.
On the state level, the party has gone all out to register and educate the one-fifth of the voting-age population that's Latino, and the presidential candidates have courted them.
One was respected investment and state-enterprises chief Laksamana Sukardi, a member of Megawati's party.
Australia 's centre-right government, which faces a federal election this year, saw its supporters battered in a Queensland state election, as voters switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation anti-immigration party.
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage provides that each State Party shall draw up, in a manner geared to its own situation, one or more inventories of the intangible cultural heritage present in its territory, thus ensuring its identification in order to safeguard it ( Article 12).
One was a surprise defeat for the pro-business Free Democratic Party, making it the sixth out of six state elections where it has lost heavily.
And to use the cliche of the season, it has been seen as one of Senator Hillary Clinton's firewalls, a state where the demographic playing field in the state Democratic Party tilt her way.
One of the few moderates is Abel Maldonado, the Republican state senator who appeared most likely to break with his party's anti-tax orthodoxy.
Given a rush of state elections over the next year, ahead of the general one, it is hard to see the party implementing the big reforms that it has failed to push since 2009.
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