Word: southernization
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...tone of the recent letter from the U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the German government urging Germany to pony up more troops for the NATO campaign in southern Afghanistan was "stern," according to a German government spokesman. Unnamed Berlin officials were quoted in the German press calling it an "outrage" and even, in one case, an "impertinence." Nonsense, retorted a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity this week: "It was a request by one member of the alliance to another: It was not a demand." Maybe so, but the chilly reception to the missive augurs poorly...
...California, New York and Missouri - gave the perennial underdog a novel air of inevitability. But the wins don't appear to be enough to knock Mitt Romney nor the surprisingly resurgent Mike Huckabee out of the race quite yet. More worrisome is that McCain's soft vote tallies in southern states and the Bible Belt, as well as in exit poll results of conservatives across the country, exposed a profound weakness with the party's base...
...victory rally in Little Rock, Ark., Huckabee took a hard-earned moment to gloat, having overwhelmingly won four southern states despite having been counted out by the national press. "Today people across this country are saying that, yes, we heard what the pundits said," Huckabee told the crowd, speaking, as usual, without notes. "But this is our vote, not theirs. This is our election, not theirs. This is our presidency, not theirs...
...Barack Obama [AK, AL, CO, CT, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MO, MN, ND, UT] held his own, making significant inroads among southern white men, especially in Georgia. He trounced Clinton in his home state of Illinois, winning a greater margin than she got in New York. And before the first polls had even closed, his aides were reminding anyone who would listen that they had never expected to carry more states than Clinton. Still, he only got just over half of the Latino vote in Illinois - and lost it by a margin of 2 to 1 in California, suggesting...
...because he was not expected to do much of anything. West Virginia landed in his corner after McCain supporters, coming in third in the caucus, decided to gang up against Romney. But victories in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, as well as a strong showing in Missouri, proved that his southern appeal is enough to keep him in the race - for the moment. The challenge, and it is significant, will be for Huckabee to turn himself into something more than a regional favorite...