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...viewed business as a model for government, and in business, as in politics, there are no prizes for second place. In fact, his campaign refuses to characterize the Iowa Caucus results as a loss. "You have to remember, we started at zero," national spokesman Kevin Madden told the press. Romney "returned a good second place result. It's Washington that lost...
...Within hours Huckabee would be on a plane, shared with his traveling press corps, for the next hurdle in his long-shot bid for the White House. He knows as well as anyone that the evangelicals who lifted him to victory in Iowa will not follow him to New Hampshire, where he still polls in single digits - fourth place. Once again, he will face candidates who are far better funded and organized. His New Hampshire staff - currently just six full-time people - is less than half of what he had in Iowa...
...poised - but not guaranteed - to come in third in the GOP contest, behind Romney and Huckabee. (In another sign that the Arizona Senator is back - and sure to face the questions that come with being a front runner - McCain will appear this Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press.) Rudy Giuliani, for months the notional GOP frontrunner in national polls, has hardly contested the state...
South African archbishop Desmond Tutu arrived in Nairobi overnight after being dispatched by Nelson Mandela's high-profile mediation group The Elders. However, Tutu's efforts to broker a compromise between the two sides had little immediate success. While he met Odinga, Tutu told a press conference he was unable to make an appointment with Kibaki. "This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability," said Tutu. "This picture has been shattered. This is not the Kenya that we know...
Meanwhile, Odinga visited the city mortuary, where his aides opened up lockers and displayed the dead to the press. On the steps of the building, with the stench of bodies in the air, Odinga declared Kibaki "a thief" and added: "I have no other power to change what is happening right now. [The people] voted for change and what they got is the continuation of the status quo. So people must address the cause of this problem, not the consequence. The cause of the problem is the rigging of elections...