Are you saying you think Obama and Biden are going to 'cream' the GOP ticket in 2012?

Still, O'Neal led the GOP legislative ticket with 13,709 votes that year.

The group was active for the GOP national and state ticket in the 2008 election.

However, just nine days before election day 2012, Robinson backtracked, admitting he was voting for Romney and a straight GOP ticket.

In the Senate race of 1952, Kennedy apparently worked a deal so that McCarthy, a Republican, would not make campaign speeches for the GOP ticket in Massachusetts.

The exigencies of getting elected in South Carolina on the GOP ticket had taught Thurmond to reach deeply into that demagogue's bag of tricks called the wedge issues.

Following the convention, most political experts in the news media rated the GOP ticket as an almost-certain winner over the Democrats.

These workers made phone calls to likely Eisenhower voters, distributed "Ike" buttons and leaflets, and gave parties to build support for the GOP ticket in their neighborhoods.

However, seeing public opinion, Eisenhower retained Nixon on the 1952 GOP ticket.

August 29: Little-known Alaska Governor Sarah Palin becomes the first woman on a national GOP ticket as nominee for Vice President.