...take a generation or two to change the way voters look at Republicans," he said.An immediate task for the new state party chairman who'll be elected May 18 in Athens is boosting reliable GOP turnout. If white turnout had held steady at its...

...investigation, fines and attorney general's investigation have brought repeated criticism from Democrats and their state party chairman renewed calls for Ard to resign."It's time to go," said Dick Harpootlian, a former prosecutor. "He has...

...Pawlenty's exit means there's now an available contingent of top GOP staff and consultants, including a former state party chairman, former advisers to President George W. Bush and senior advisers to Mike Huckabee's winning 2008 caucus campaign...

...Romney eked out a minuscule 8-vote victory over Rick Santorum in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses, the state party chairman said early Wednesday, ringing down the curtain on an improbable first act in the campaign to pick a challenger...

...This is a wonderful occasion, a historical occasion that a black man has attained the presidency of the United States," party Chairman Lowell Greenbaum said. "That will change a lot of things in this country, so together all of us can go forward...

...ongoing drought. CRIME: A man barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and opened fire, fatally shooting state party Chairman Bill Gwatney before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase...

...I think one of his biggest problems may be that he's never really run anything," said Barry Wynn, a former state party chairman and chairman of Mr. Giuliani's South Carolina campaign. "He hasn't been a CEO. He hasn't been a governor...

...to remember what we are," Mr. Weh said. "We're fiscal conservatives." But Randy Ruedrich, Alaska's state party chairman, isn't about to take Mr. Stevens to task. The state's publicly funded transportation infrastructure projects...

...next week. In the race for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor, the poll showed Mr. Reed, the former state party chairman and Mr. Cagle, a state senator from Chestnut Mountain, with 37 percent each.

...regarded as a "safe" GOP state, and its leaders are weeding out candidates - subtly or directly. Along the way, state party Chairman Katon Dawson and others have broken with a tradition of not endorsing candidates during statewide or congressional...