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• BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C.

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  BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C. CEDAR CREEK, Tex. -- Given that this year's Republican Governors Association meeting is taking place here in Texas, reporters today asked RGA Chairman Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, to weigh in on the Rick Perry-vs.-Kay Bailey Hutchison GOP primary for Texas [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

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• NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic

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  NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic After two bleak years, Republican governors gathered here on Thursday to assess their political future — and they liked what they saw. With 37 governors’ seats open in 2010, the party is looking to topple some big-name Democrats. What [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

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• UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back

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  UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi says his fellow governors are "leading the comeback" of the Republican Party. Barbour spoke at a news conference Wednesday as the Republican Governors Association began a conference in Austin, Texas, The Washington Post [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  

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• MSGOP Chairman Brad White Responds to Jamie Frank’s Comments on Budget

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  Jackson, Miss. – Republican Party Chairman Brad White issued the following statement today on the remarks made by Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Franks regarding Governor Haley Barbour’s budget recommendations: “Jamie Franks shows us the difference between big government, big spending Democrats and the prudent reforms presented by Governor Haley Barbour.” [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:38pm EST
  

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• MSGOP: "Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges"

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  Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White put the smackdown on Jamie Franks. As we mentioned yesterday, the Mississippi Democratic Party's reaction to Governor Haley Barbour's budget proposal was essentially: "No". Rather than suggest ideas, they only attacked.
  
  GOP Chairman Brad White responded (ht Y'all):“Jamie Franks shows us' [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:09pm EST
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• PUFFINGTON - Haley Barbour mention for 2012 GOP nod through enviro-lens

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  Will the GOP Nominate a Climate Change Denier in 2012? In the early stages of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, eight names are mentioned most frequently: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Dick Cheney. Of these eight early contenders, [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

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• An awfully, awfully belated congratulations on a wonderful career

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  Going back through the archives of this site and its predecessor, I ran across a comment to an early post of mine that deserves mention.  Somehow, I missed it back then, and I apologize profusely for that.
  
  Chip Reynolds, longtime state GOP operative, Clinton High School supporter and general [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:38pm EST
  by Matt Eichelberger

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• Hotline explores whether Pelosi attacks will work against Rep. Travis Childers in MS-01

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  Anatomy Of An Attack: Does Using Pelosi Actually Work? GOPers acknowledge they won't be able to use Pelosi in Dem-held districts in several regions, but one strategist called her "an important piece of the puzzle," especially in districts held by conservative Dems like Bright and Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS). "We ought to'" [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

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• AP - 2012 already? GOP wannabes jockeying early - is Barbour got a chance?

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  AP - 2012 already? GOP wannabes jockeying early - does Barbour have a chance? Pawlenty, for instance, caused a stir among insiders recently with a series of bobbles. In one case, the Minnesota governor seemed to suggest that moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who sided with Democrats on Obama's' [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

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• The Republican Party in Mississippi

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  A post at Majority in Mississippi discussed the switches of the Simpson County officials to the Republican Party and touched on the GOP's recent history in the Magnolia State. Here is my comment.
  
  "Following Reconstruction, the state had supported a Democrat [for president] the previous 18 times."
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  by Steve Rankin

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• Is Eight a Big Deal?

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  The answer is no.  For a whole lot of reasons, the answer is no.  Here's one of them -- the reason we have the state GOP focusing on Simpson County politicians is that they have run out of legislators who will switch.  Unable to get any other Democratic legislators to [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:50pm EST
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• Another Dem switches to the GOP

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  The beat continues as another county-wide elected official in Simpson County leaves the Democratic Party for the Republican Party. Andy Taggart notes that Circuit Clerk Cindy Jenson decided to follow the lead of her colleagues and leave the Obama-Pelosi Party and join the GOP. In case you missed it, here is the [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:48am EST
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• Perry - Dems join GOP

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  Perry - Dems join GOP Mississippians leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Republican Party last week from Simpson County included: Sheriff Kenneth Lewis, Supervisor Mickey Berry, Justice Court Judge Eugene Knight, Constable Dan Easterling, and D'Lo Alderman Michael Shoemaker. Another to make the switch was 13th Circuit District Attorney Eddie' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:50pm EST
  

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• What Kind of Numbers Will We See in the GOP Primaries in 2011?

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  In many counties throughout the state, if you want a say in local politics you need to vote in the Democrat primary. Without Republican challengers, the race is often decided in August. I talked about the possibility of that trend changing- starting with Simpson County- when we saw a number [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:06am EST
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• RR: Dems join GOP

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  During the Clinton Years (1993-2000) Republicans very effectively contrasted the differences between the Republican and Democratic parties. Newt Gingrich and Haley Barbour used that contrast in politics and ideas to capture the Congress for Republicans for the first time in forty years. And the Republican National Committee worked to translate [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:57pm EST
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• The Atlantic says Gene Taylor a NRCC target bc of his conservative vote

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  The Atlantic says Gene Taylor a NRCC target bc of his conservative vote Top Tier Targets Walt Minnick (D-ID) - he represents one of the most conservative districts in the West -- and the most GOP district in the nation currently held by a Dem. The NRCC has a top-flight challenger in [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

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• Can The GOP Make Inroads Into Local Politics?

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  As I hinted at last week, we recently saw several Simpson County officials switch party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. The Clarion-Ledger has a good article on this story as Simpson County becomes one of the first rural counties in the state to be run by Republicans. To an outsider who [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:07pm EST
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• Barbour Delivers Weekly GOP Address

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  Governor Haley Barbour gave the weekly Republican address this Saturday.  He spoke about the Virginia and New Jersey races, health care policy, and the need to refocus attention on jobs.
  

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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:07am EST
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• U.S. News - Haley Barbour Gets Some Credit for Virginia, New Jersey Wins

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  U.S. News - Haley Barbour Gets Some Credit for Virginia, New Jersey Wins Credit Mississippi Governor and former Republican Party National Chairman Haley Barbour and the Republican Governors Association he runs for helping push Republicans into the victory column in the two gubernatorial races this year, say several GOP and conservative [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:37pm EST
  

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• GINGRICH: Barbour had best remarks on GOP victories

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  GINGRICH: Barbour had best remarks on GOP victories HANNITY: All right, but if we look at -- the numbers that really stood out to me, in New Jersey, from a year ago, it was the 20-point swing because Obama won that state by 15 points, Christie won by 5. It [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:31pm EST
  

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• Simpson County News: Dems switch to GOP; Diaz out in December

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  Not to get lost in the news from Simpson County that a number of local elected officials - including the sheriff and the district attorney of a four county district (Simpson, Covington, Jasper, Smith) - are switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party comes another little piece of [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:57am EST
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• 7 Simpson officials move to GOP

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  7 Simpson officials move to GOP District Attorney Eddie Bowen, Sheriff Kenneth Lewis, Supervisor Mickey Berry, Justice Court Judge Eugene Knight, Constable Dan Easterling and D’Lo Alderman Michael Shoemaker made the announcement at the Republican Party headquarters in Jackson today. “I’m just more of a conservative person,” Berry said. The Simpson County Republican [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:47pm EST
  

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• GOP Senators Agree to Unemployment Extension

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  by Adam Lynch November 5, 2009 After a days-long stand off, U.S. Senate Republicans agreed to unanimously support extending unemployment and homebuyers' credits yesterday.' [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:15pm EST
  

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• Mississippi Democrats Switch to GOP

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  Today at the Mississippi Republican Party, several Mississippi elected officials (mostly from Simpson County) announced they were leaving the Democratic Party and becoming Republicans. 13th Circuit District Attorney Eddie Bowen (Smith, Jasper, Simpson, Covington Counties) Sheriff Kenneth Lewis (Simpson County) Supervisor Mickey Berry (Simpson County) Justice Court Judge Eugene Knight (Simpson County) Constable Dan Easterling [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:45pm EST
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• Maj. in Miss. - Will GOP victories impact Childers-Nunnelee race?

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  Maj. in Miss. - Will GOP victories impact Childers-Nunnelee race? I spent considerable amount of time thinking about what last night’s election may mean for 2010- specifically the race in Mississippi’s First District. While it is difficult to make any comparisons between states, Southwestern Virginia is home to many largely white, [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:38pm EST
  

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• The Hill - Who can take credit for GOP govs win? RGA or RNC?

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  The Hill - Who can take credit for GOP govs win? RGA or RNC? The first lines were drawn last week when strategists outside of the RNC noted that under Chairman Michael Steele’s byline, the committee sent out two memoranda touting the RNC’s success — even before Tuesday’s elections. “When I ran [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:34pm EST
  

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• Barbour’s statement on GOP victories

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  Barbour's statement on GOP victories Republican Governors Association Chairman Governor Haley Barbour issued the following statement about the Republican Party sweeping the governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia today: “The RGA helped two great candidates secure historic victories for the GOP tonight. By wisely investing more than $13 million in [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:23pm EST
  

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• Virginia Loss Showcases Democratic Troubles

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  Virginia Loss Showcases Democratic Troubles Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who chairs the Republican Governors Association, told RealClearPolitics in an interview last night that the most important effect of the election results, in terms of next year's midterm elections, could be GOP candidate recruitment. Barbour was chairman of the Republican National Committee [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  

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• Ready for 2010

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  Last night was the best election night for Republicans as a whole since 2004. The year 2007 was nice, especially here in Mississippi, but the GOP and Democrats swapped contests in Louisiana and Kentucky essentially resulting in a draw for the evening. There is no other way to spin it: [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:04am EST
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  Well, the big loser last night was the pollsters.  They had NJ too close to call.  They had the conservative (only later adopted by the GOP) candidate winning in NY-23.   And they had the pro-gay marriage side of the referendum in Maine slightly ahead.  NJ was a blowout for the [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:07am EST
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