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...crossover effort can have limits. Entertainer-preacher Huckabee could simply end up being the best-liked candidate among people who will never vote for him. But he has already become the political embodiment of the megachurch approach: get people in the door with rock or cappuccino or stand-up?but get them in the door. "Religion and politics and show business are all about attracting people," Pelosi says. The big question is whether Huckabee can keep his lyrics from drowning out his music...
...Obama's race tugs at them, in the gut. For African-American women, however, Clinton also holds appeal--both as the first potential female President and a longtime activist for equal rights. African-American women will probably make up the largest single voting group in the primary, if you extrapolate from the 2004 primary returns. "This particular election is kind of hardest, if I can put it that way, for the African-American female," says Jennette Williams, 55, a black Georgia public-schools employee who took her grandson Dimitiras, 5, to hear Clinton speak in Columbia. Williams plans to vote...
...election, on the ground--in the churches and salons and restaurants the candidates visit--very few voters will actually base their decision on race. Indeed, what all candidates are learning--or will soon learn--is that African-American voters can't be neatly classified or treated as a homogeneous voting bloc. Nearly 80% of blacks vote Democratic, but Republican candidates have managed to make intermittent gains over the past decade. Many African-American voters--including Democrats--line up with conservatives on social and cultural issues. And in poll after poll, black voters say they would not cast their vote...
Although pundits and campaign staffers alike will spend the days leading up to the South Carolina primary attempting to predict the outcome of the "black vote," the voters themselves prove the folly of such an exercise. Hammock says she will end up making what she calls a highly "political" choice: she wants to give "this one little ole vote" to whichever Democrat she believes is going to win the nomination so that he or she has the most resounding mandate possible going into the general election. Meanwhile, Anderson told me in Columbia that she didn't yet have enough information...
...Jesus Church in Miami. Giuliani addressed the congregation, quoting Scripture. Calling his presidential bid a "test of faith," he invoked Joshua 10: 25: "Fear not, be strong, and of good courage." Giuliani also tried to connect spiritually, insisting "I am not coming here to ask for your vote ... I am asking for your prayers." With a new poll showing the onetime GOP front runner in a four-way tie with Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Mitt Romney in Florida, he'll need both...