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    By S.A. Miller

    SHREWSBURY, Pa. | Republican voters increasingly say they have lost faith in the party and might not vote this year, compounding headaches for party leaders struggling to avert a November massacre at the polls.

    "The Republican Party doesn't represent me anymore," longtime Republican voter Joseph E. Ayers, 57, said recently while grabbing lunch at an Amish market in this rural hamlet.

    Mr. Ayers, an investment consultant, said he was disgusted with President Bush and Republicans in Congress for allowing massive government growth, runaway federal spending, escalating energy prices and a costly nation-building mission in Iraq.

    "We were betrayed by Bush in a lot of ways," he said, adding that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona lacks the conservative mettle needed to repair the damage.

    "I won't vote for McCain," he said. "I might not even vote at all. That's the way it looks now."

    Low Republican turnout contributed to May's Democratic upset victory in a congressional special election in southern Mississippi, a once-safe Republican district that President Bush carried by a 25-point margin in 2004.

    The defeat - which followed special-election loses for Republicans in previous strongholds in districts in Illinois and Louisiana - stung party leaders on Capitol Hill just as they introduced a refurbished conservative agenda for members to tout during the Memorial Day recess.

    The new agenda, which included energy policy and measures to aid families and working mothers, is part of a retooled Republican campaign message that promises to deliver "the change Americans deserve."

    "It is a clear sign Republicans have not yet come to grips with how big a hole they have dug for themselves and how much work it will take to get out," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who spearheaded the 1994 Republican win of the majority in Congress that ended four decades of Democratic control.

    He said the party was down but not out. He credited Republican leaders with embracing policies that resonate with voters, especially by tackling energy prices with calls for more domestic oil production.

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