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Several of the GOP candidates have qualities that might appeal to independent voters: Rudy Giuliani's successful record as mayor of New York City, Mitt Romney's intelligence and competence, Mike Huckabee's concern for the poor. But McCain just won more independent voters than the others in the swing state of New Hampshire. And he is the only candidate with a platform that might attract them...
MICK CORNETT, Oklahoma City mayor, challenging the city's residents--among the most obese in the U.S.--to shed a collective 1 million pounds in the New Year...
...turf where he scalped George W. Bush in 2000, McCain revved up the Straight Talk Express and rode it to more than 100 town-hall meetings. Romney barely knew what hit him. McCain's numbers shot up in the last week before the primary. Says Bernie Streeter, a former mayor of Nashua: "Voters realized that the guy they loved eight years ago was back in the horse race...
...race goes on to Florida, and guess who's sitting there like a bug on a stump? Rudy Giuliani," said Mit Spears, a Washington Republican in Romney's camp. Florida's Jan. 29 primary will test the former New York City mayor's unconventional strategy of hanging back until the race reaches the megastates, where his celebrity gives him extra leverage...
Attending the sessions in Oklahoma was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, thought by many to be considering a possible presidential run as a third-party candidate. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bloomberg has begun investing in nationwide polling and voter analysis to explore what it would take to mount a third party candidacy. During the panel's meetings this week, Bloomberg dismissed such talk. "I'm not a candidate, number one. I am a former businessman and a mayor" - hardly a Shermanesque denial...