It is obviously crafted with one objective: to help Republicans.

If he can help Republicans in November, all the better.

But they served to help Republicans and hurt Democrats.

What's more, an environment in which national security is of heightened concern to voters has historically tended to help Republicans.

A low voter turnout - something that has often tended to help Republicans in special elections here - is expected.

It spent $5.6 million in the 1993-94 election cycle, the bulk of it to help Republicans.

Prosecutors who used their offices to help Republicans did well.

Nor does he think an all-out effort to spell out revolutionary ideas would help Republicans right away with the public.

Which means the war helps the president much more than it helps other Republicans.

While push polls designed to help Republicans have drawn more attention recently, both parties' candidates use them widely.