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...does your candidacy make it more difficult for a Democrat to win the White House? No, I think they're going to win big. [Republican front-runner Arizona Senator John] McCain, if he is the nominee, given his statements and his position on Iraq... seems to be the candidate of permanent war and intervention. That is just not the popular position today: 70% of the people want out of Iraq, and even a January 2006 Zogby poll of soldiers found that 72% of the soldiers want out of Iraq within six to 12 months. If he continues with that position...
...help make nice with Evangelicals early on, but Mike Huckabee's strong primary finishes--including 37% of the vote in Wisconsin--show that the Arizona Senator has plenty of work to do. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins calls McCain's Evangelical challenge "tremendous." So far, the Republican front runner hasn't made his decades-long opposition to abortion rights a centerpiece of his campaign, hoping instead to reach out to conservative Christians by invoking the fight against Islamic radicalism. [SECULARIST=1] [THEOCRAT...
...There’s a natural rivalry between student and teacher,” J-Live said. “It’s as natural as Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote...
...version of the Salem witch trials, testing the candidates for any sign of heresy and hanging or drowning the ones who flunked. Then they choose the very guy many Republicans most suspect of being a witch. If you doubt that the whole thing was staged, just consider who the runner-up was. How could a party truly dedicated to self-destruction through ideological purity end up with the choice of McCain or Romney...
...When there is a strong front-runner, momentum is less decisive. Gary Hart discovered this in 1984. He surged out of Iowa and New Hampshire only to break his spear on the front-running campaign of Walter Mondale...