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...along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in... ..More»

Former Republican NC Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86Ledger Independent, KY.. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 ..More»

Barack Obama is celebrating the 4th of July in Butte, Montana, attending a parade and picnic. It's a state that usually gives its three electoral votes to a Republican. Only two Democrats have carried Montana since 1948. Republicans typically take it for granted and Democrats usually write if off. But this year, Obama is spending a sizeable amount of time and money to try to win it. ..More»

Jesse Helms BiographyKIROtv.com,.. Helms, a five-term Republican US Senator from North Carolina, and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, built a career along the ..More»

KY. gov. revamps racing oversight groupWFIE-TV, I.. named to the newly created Kentucky Horse Racing Commission was previous vice chair Connie Whitfield, the wife of republican congressman Ed Whitfield. ..More»

July 4: Former Republican Senator Jesse Helms has died. He was 86. NBC's Martin Savidge reports. ..More»

Barack Obama is celebrating the 4th of July in Butte, Montana, attending a parade and picnic. It's a state that usually gives its three electoral votes to a Republican. Only two Democrats have carried Montana since 1948. Republicans typically take it for granted and Democrats usually write if off. But this year, Obama is spending a sizeable amount of time ... ..More»

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. ..More»

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. "It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and ... ..More»

...an honorable opponent," but expressed his disagreement with Lincoln's June 16 speech to the Illinois Republican convention that had named him... ..More»

Biographical information on ex-Sen. Jesse HelmsInside Bay Area, CA - POLITICAL CAREER—Elected Republican senator from North Carolina in 1972; re-elected to Senate four times; in 1984, defeated then-Gov. ..More»

US conservative icon, Jesse Helms, dead at 86Canada.com, C.. "He was one of the giants of the 80s and 90s in the United States Senate," former Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi told Fox News. ..More»

Jesse Helms TimelineCharlotte Observer, NC - 1970: Upset with the Democratic Party for its policy on the Vietnam War, Helms switches from Democrat to Republican. 1972: He is elected to the US Senate, ..More»

...political shifts are underway,” Fishman says that Obama could lead “a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right” this November and... ..More»

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A black Republican group has put up billboards in Florida and South Carolina saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim that black leaders say... ..More»