This fall the Republicans hope to provide a more serious challenge.

It would be about the best the Republicans could hope to wage.

All are running now, and Republicans hope the race will increase their influence statewide.

"The law has not been the political plus that the president and Republicans had hoped for."

Republicans clearly hope that high fuel prices will work in their favor.

Republicans clearly hope the hearings will help them in this fall's elections.

But the Republicans hope the comparison of the two fields will work to their advantage.

And the Republicans hope to unify around a tax cut plan this summer.

The association of his name with the scandal gave Republicans hope that he would be vulnerable in the 1992 campaign.

Indeed, in agreeing to the earlier primary, this is exactly what some Republicans are hoping.