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==Reference==
 
* [http://www.rnc.org/ Republican National Committee] official web site
 
* {{wikipedia|Republican Party (United States)}}
 
* [http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party Campaigns Wikia]
 
==Related Pages==
 
* [[2000 US Republican Party Platform]]
 
  
==Actions==
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* '''1995''': Republican-led Congress Closed the [http://www.access.gpo.gov/ota/ Office of Technology Assessment]
 
* '''1994''': The [[Contract with America]] was a significant Republican platform in the 1994 Congressional election
 
==Qualities==
 
* Seemingly hostile towards [[science]] [http://www.davidbrin.com/gopwar.html], while the [[US Democratic Party|Democrats]] tend to be opposed to large engineering projects
 
* Known for pointlessly "dirty" campaigning [http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/36452/]
 
==Links==
 
===Dirty Campaigning===
 
* '''2006''' [http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/republican-fake-phone-call-scandal.html][http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2006/11/more_fun_from_t.html]:
 
** [http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/15898729.htm Philadelphia, PA]
 
** [http://www.nancyforcongress.com/index.php Kansas]
 
** [http://www.wmur.com/news/10239713/detail.html New Hampshire]
 
** [http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010829.php Connecticut]
 
** [http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010829.php New York]
 
===Commentary===
 
* '''2006-10-31''' [http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=7551 This Is No Fun]: right-wing blogger [[John Cole]] shreds the recent performance of the GOP
 
* '''2005-11-14''' [http://www.claremont.org/writings/051031wolfson.html Is the GOP still the conservative party?]
 
* [http://shelleytherepublican.com/ ShelleyTheRepublican.com]: ok, I confess... I can't tell if this is meant to be serious...
 
* [http://republicansforhumility.com Republicans for Humility]
 
===Findings===
 
* '''2005-12-21''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/bpl-fod122105.php Fear of death may factor into who we vote for]: specifically, subtle reminders of mortality caused people to switch votes from Kerry to Bush; this seems likely to be a specific of a more general trend of voting Republican/Conservative being correlated with perceived danger level. The Party seems well aware of this, as they have a created a number of entities whose sole purpose seems to be to generate calculated levels of alarm and fear, at will, in the general population.
 
  
===News===
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* '''2007-05-09''' [http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2007/05/09/658970.html Retired Generals Challenge GOP in Ads]: "Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign Wednesday, saying the politicians can't expect to win re-election if they support President [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s policies in [[US invasion of Iraq|Iraq]]." The generals in question are Maj. Gen. [[John Batiste]] (ret.), Maj. Gen. [[Paul Eaton]] (ret.), and NATO Supreme Allied Commander [[Wesley Clark]] (ret.); the ads were created by [http://votevets.org VoteVets.org].
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==See Also==
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* [[/blog|blog sandbox]]
*[[2000-2007 US Presidential Administration]]
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* [[/debug|debug area]] for demonstrating current wikitext issues
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* [[/feed|feed sandbox]] for experimenting with feed generation
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* [[/protected|protected sandbox]] for sysops to test stuff that only works on protected pages

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