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The party has an outside chance of winning the five or six seats it needs to retake control, but needs to find top-tier recruits in several states and is running out of time to do so. ....Here are five states where the party needs to land strong candidates to broaden the battleground and have a hope of winning back the Senate. Michigan Iowa Montana Arkansas New Hampshire

Locked in a tight race with Republican Jeb Bradley Democrat incumbent Carol Shea Porter ignores a constituent's plea for help. She votes 100% with Pelosi.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A congressional hopeful wrecked his car and wandered a mile in a daze, swimming across a river and then huddling under leaves for warmth until he was found alive a day later, officials and relatives said. Gary Dodds, 41, was taken to a hospital to be treated for hypothermia late Thursday. His wife, Cynthia, said Friday that he was doing well but has only foggy memories of his ordeal and "definitely had a good bump to the head." Dodds crashed on the Spaulding Turnpike on Wednesday evening, but emergency workers who arrived a few minutes later found...

Moderate RINOS Undermine the GOP November 11, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, now the White House has fought back. Will the congressional Republicans get their acts in gear? It looks like they're falling part. This gang of moderates under the tutelage of George Soros that killed the ANWR drilling project-- (interruption) You are unaware that the Republican mainstream partnership is funded by George Soros? I kid you not. It's on Michelle Malkin's website. I pulled it down last night. Here we go. She writes, "Many of you were asking for...

2006 Congressional Election Cycle Has Begun  50 Republican Incumbents Undeserving of Support by Pro-life Voters   The Republican National Coalition for Life PAC is currently receiving phone calls from Republican candidates for Congress in the 2006 Republican primaries. Our usual practice is to mail our Candidate Questionnaire to Republican candidates in each district as soon as the filing deadlines are reached. When we receive the results of the questionnaire, they are recorded on our website at www.RNCLife.org so that voters can see for themselves it those seeking to represent them in Washington are truly pro-life. We hope that this service...

U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley voted for legislation this week that bans so-called partial-birth abortions except in cases where the mother's life is at risk. But Bradley, a first-term Republican who represents New Hampshire's first district, campaigned as a strongly pro-choice candidate. He even supported a woman's access to an abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy if her health or life is at risk. "I am the only candidate in this race with a solid 12-year voting record supporting a woman's right to choose as guaranteed under the 14th Amendment," Bradley wrote in a September 2002 letter to voters. "I...

Also: a Shaheen internal poll released tonight showed Shaheen with a small lead. The poll conducted by Alan J. Quinlan of Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research, Inc. on October 15-16, 2002 among 500 likely November voters showed Shaheen leading Sununu 45%-43%. americanresearchgroup.comAmerican Research Group, Inc.814 Elm Street  Manchester, NH 03101603/624-4081  603/627-1746-FAX The New Hampshire Poll October 17, 2002 Republicans Continue to Hold Leads in New Hampshire as US Senate Race Tightens Republicans John Sununu, Craig Benson, Jeb Bradley, and Charles Bass continue to hold their respective leads over Democrats Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Fernald, Martha Fuller Clark, and Katrina Swett with only the race...

Congressional poll numbers show Bradley and Bass with leads... A new poll conducted by UNH Survey Center for WMUR shows Bradley and Bass with leads over their Democratic opponents. The poll has a margin of error of +/-5%. (10/10/02) CD 1 Jeb Bradley (R) 47% Martha Fuller Clark (D) 34% Dan Belforti (L) 1% Other 5% Undecided 13% CD 2 Charlie Bass (R) 52% Katrina Swett (D) 30%