Things couldn't get any worse, party loyalists said, but they did.

Still, she sees her son mostly as a party loyalist.

Many said party loyalists now had a fresh reason to rally round the President.

It remains unclear how many party loyalists will make a similar decision.

"He's an old party loyalist, and I think he felt people had turned on him," the supporter said.

In practice, this meant replacing federal employees with friends or party loyalists.

The race has provoked a debate among many party loyalists about what it means to be a Republican.

Over the holidays, the Republican chairman said he went into his office and read some of the mail from party loyalists around the country.

Labor supporters insisted that 13 of the dead were party loyalists.

For now, though, the Southern states will have to sit back and watch as only the most faithful of party loyalists go to the polls.