1.   The agendas of the press and the Republican electorate diverge dramatically during primary season, but not because of ideology.

2.   Ashcroft brings to the debate a record of social and fiscal conservatism that harmonizes with religious conservatives, a crucial bloc of the Republican electorate.

3.   But whether this means a rise in a Republican electorate, as some analysts predict, is debatable.

4.   But those surveys also show that the Republican electorate has voted this year more on character than ideology.

5.   Even those that did drew only a fraction of the Republican electorate.

6.   He made no mention of his support for abortion rights, a position that might give him trouble among the socially conservative Republican primary electorate.

7.   In Ohio, where a quarter of the Republican electorate is Catholic, Bush drew half their vote and McCain took just under half.

8.   One is New Conservative Dole, the campaigner relentlessly seeking to secure support among the Republican primary electorate.

9.   Reed recognizes that social conservatives, while often the largest single component of the Republican primary electorate, are rarely a majority, even in the Bible Belt.