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GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: 'A Heaping Plate of Soul' Given the anti-Establishment, anti-Washington fervor haunting this election cycle, many Republican candidates publicly keep the national party at arm's length, anyway. (Right Senator Hutchinson?) But, no matter. Discrete political and financial support from the NRCC and the Republican establishment is craved by most GOP congressional hopefuls, including the competitive black ones. McGlowan, the Mississippi candidate, initiated a meeting with the NRCC, seeking party support--to no avail. "Mississippi's good-ole-boys rallied around an establishment candidate," she says, at Trent Lott's encouragement: Alan Nunnelee. Puffington Post 4/26/10 hattip Majority in MS