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Hope, Ark., a town of just over 10,000 people, is known for its prize-winning watermelon. This town near the Louisiana and Texas borders is also known to ardent political junkies as the birthplace of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee...
No kidding. Huckabee's new prominence revived the wrenching story of Carol Sue Shields, a Missouri woman raped and murdered in 2000 by a former Arkansas inmate, Wayne Dumond. He died in prison before being charged with the murder of a second Missouri woman, Sara Andrasek. As Governor, Huckabee supported...
Huckabee's first few hours in the big time weren't exactly reassuring. When a man in Newton asked him about Dumond, Huckabee answered with an airy discourse on corrections policy that left the misleading impression that Dumond's parole was the Arkansas legislature's idea. That's not likely...
Four days before the next debate between the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, their supporters at Harvard sharpened their teeth in a practice debate of their own. And just as in the upcoming Univision debate, Tom Tancredo was not represented. Advocates of six Republican contenders pitched their candidates in...
Both Democrats and Republicans in Iowa place more importance on character issues than on leadership and experience, which explains why Obama and Edwards have been able to challenge Clinton in the state. And those priorities have hurt the other national front-runner, Rudy Giuliani. Like Clinton, the former New York...