Category Archives: RNC

Is the RNC Secretly Web-Hating on Mitt Romney?

A still from a Gingrich sponsored anti-Romney website is being put out by the same people who maintain and control the website for the Republican National Convention.   A blogger from wcgworld.com has recently discovered an anti-Romney website run by Gingrich, also shares the same IP address as the same people who maintain and control the website [...]

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Martin May Switch to Missouri Governor’s Race

By: David Cantanese Former U.S. Senate candidate and current Missouri congressional candidate Ed Martin is now considering his third contest of the 2012 cycle: A race for governor. Appearing on Mark Reardon’s St. Louis radio program Tuesday afternoon, the conservative talk show host asked Martin to get in the race and Martin replied, “I will [...]

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Steele drops out of race; Priebus is the new Republican Party chairman

Reince Priebus is the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Priebus won with 97 votes in the seventh round of voting. Priebus, the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, was the leader from the first ballot, and was the only candidate to not lose any supporters as voting progressed Friday afternoon. Incumbent Michael Steele, [...]

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Six Top GOP Donors Call for New Leadership at RNC

By: Ben Smith POLITICO Six top Republican contributors – five of them past RNC finance chairmen – sent a letter today to members of the committee detailing the party’s financial problems and urging them to pick a new chair to replace Michael Steele. “In this past election cycle, record fundraising has been achieved by the [...]

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RNC Chairman Steele to Announce He Won’t Run for Second Term

  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is expected to announce he will drop out of the highly contested race to keep his post, sources told FoxNews.com on Sunday. Fox News has confirmed Steele sent an e-mail to committee members Saturday night with the subject line, “conference call.” In the note, he asked members to [...]

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Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele Silent About Re-Election Run

GOP Insiders See Clues That Steele Won’t Try for New Term Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has not appeared on television — or anywhere in public — since early November. That’s an eternity for the man who has been the most vocal and visible leader of the RNC in recent memory. Steele’s silence is [...]

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RNC Race Filled with Uncertainty Ahead of Forum

By:  CNN Producer Peter Hamby Washington (CNN) – There may be a handful of empty seats on stage Wednesday as Republican National Committee members team up with a leading Tea Party organization to grill the candidates vying to replace Michael Steele atop the party – a reminder that the chairman’s race remains wide open with [...]

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DeMint: Steele Botched Ground Game, Needs to be Replaced

By: Kenneth Vogel POLITICO The lack of a well-organized voter mobilization effort by the Republican National Committee could have cost the GOP “a few Senate seats,” Sen. Jim DeMint suggested Sunday. Partly as a result, the South Carolina Republican suggested he wouldn’t support a second term for controversial RNC Chairman Michael Steele, saying on “Fox [...]

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Steele’s Support to Remain RNC Chief Fades Fast

NEWSMAX.COM Support for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is shrinking quickly among committee members as he contemplates running for a second term. Even some of his closest supporters are urging him to step down, the National Journal reports. Between 40 and 50 of the 168 RNC members back Steele, while another 40 to 50 [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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