Cole: Republicans are harnessing Mass. candidate's outsider message.

COLE, Tom; NATIONAL Republican Congressional Committee; POLITICAL candidates; REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ); UNITED States. Congress. House. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; UNITED States elections

The article reports on the advice given by Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), to Republican candidates in the U.S. He stresses that Republicans should develop strategies to enhance the Republican Party's competitiveness in the 2008 election. However, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stresses that the failure of Republicans to address change as well as the party's lack of funding result to the development of challenges.