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Thursday August 28, 2008

Jim Brady: An Unlikely Conservative

August 28, 2008 • Brady is a rare African-American Republican in Ohio's heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County, though he says there are more in the area than people think.

Greg Truax: Grass-Roots Conservative

August 28, 2008 • Truax is co-chairman of McCain's campaign in Florida's Hillsborough County. He says it's an area worth watching because although there are more registered Democrats than Republicans, when it comes to local legislators and office holders, the GOP appears ascendant.

Edward Haroutunian: Detroit Republican

August 28, 2008 • "Detroit Republican" might sound like a contradiction in terms. But Haroutunian says, "There are many people in the city of Detroit who have the same philosophical direction as the Republican Party." The problem is, he says, that Democrats have made "Republican" a dirty word.

Perry Buck: Political Late Bloomer Finds Her Stride

August 28, 2008 • Buck didn't discover her knack for politics until her 30s, but she's since embraced it. The vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party is working to energize fellow Republicans in one of the swing state's more conservative congressional districts.

Darrell Proctor: On The Pulse Of Conservative Mo.

August 28, 2008 • Proctor, age 60, has been campaigning for GOP candidates since he was old enough to hand out brochures. He says his and others' efforts to organize conservative turnout in southwest Missouri may be key to making sure the battleground state stays red on Nov. 4.