Republican Greg Davis - lost to Travis Childers in Mississippi's special runoff election last week, despite a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney on the eve of the vote. The campaign featured negative ads about Barack Obama, who endorsed Childers. Republican Greg Davis (left) lost to Travis Childers in Mississippi's special runoff election last week, despite a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney on the eve of the vote. The campaign featured negative ads about Barack Obama, who endorsed Childers. (Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press)
age, raised $108 million more than the Democratic National Committee in the four previous election cycles, is unlikely to achieve that dominance

I eagerly await the fall campaign, when incumbent Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., tries to portray himself as “a new kind of Republican.” That he represents a “Third Way,” between the old, lobbyist-dominated GOP and the slightly younger, lobbyist-dominated GOP. Too bad “incumbent Republican congressman” is a personal smear still suitable for a family newspaper.
After batting oh-fer in three special elections in GOP districts, the National Republican Congressional Committee is low on both money and ideas. The NRCC has spent about 20 percent of its cash on hand in each election, but the Democrat won the Illinois seat held by former Speaker Dennis Hastert, then a Louisiana seat

The Republican Party last week lost its third conservative House seat of the year in a special election, this time in Mississippi -- a seat long thought "safe" -- and following losses in Louisiana and Illinois.
Republicans are throwing one another under the bus. There's no party discipline. Personal scandals have run amok. There's a financial scandal at the National Republican Congressional Committee. And it all portends a political massacre in November.
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With the GOP nomination all but official, I'm hesitant to weigh in on one issue surrounding Ron Paul: his Republican bona fides.
Yet, some of his supporters earnestly insist that he really does agree with his fellow Republicans on most issues, foreign policy and the Iraq War being the big exception. Any serious follower of national politics in recent decades has long-known Ron Paul to be in his own idealogical world compared to other Members of Congress, far out in his own libertarian left-field.
s 1988 statement: "I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan Administration."

By FRANK RICH THE biggest gift President Bush has given his party this year was to keep his daughter’s wedding nearly as private as Connie Corleone’s.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican Party when he warned years ago that the GOP was in danger of "dying at the box office" by failing to make the sale to a wide swath of voters.
And with the presidential election looming, the Republican governor of the nation's most populous state - a decidedly blue state - has now found a chorus of agreement. The Republican "brand" - thanks to an unpopular president, a war, gas prices, foreclosures and deficit - has become such damaged goods that GOP Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia groused last week that "if we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."
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By Rachel Kapochunas, CQPolitics.com Top Democratic and Republican party officials may be more focused on Mississippi tonight than on the West Virginia

By Matthew Bigg ATLANTA (Reuters) - Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a U.S. House of Representatives seat in a special election on Tuesday that analysts said should serve as a warning to Republicans gearing up for November's congressional elections.
Childers defeated Greg Davis in a run-off to fill a vacant seat in Mississippi's first congressional district, according to projections reported by local media.
ilders' win follows two gains by Democrats in seats in Louisiana and Illinois and suggests that formerly solid Republican districts might be up for grabs in November. Continued...