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...always been the Mother Superior of nominating contests, bringing order to the process, and rapping the knuckles of the rowdies, so that the rest of the calendar looks more like a coronation than a campaign. The state's location at the heart of the party's southern political base, as well as its mix of economic and religious conservatives, make it uniquely suited for the role. Not once since the inception of the primary in 1980 has its winner failed to go on to win the party's nomination...
Mike Huckabee: Can he expand his appeal beyond his religious conservative, evangelical base? Among those who identified themselves as evangelical or born-again Christian, Huckabee beat McCain 40-27% in South Carolina. But he only won 12% of those who did not put themselves in that category...
...honor will not get Huckabee the nomination. As the calendar flies by, the states get bigger and even more costly, putting his shoestring campaign under increasing pressure. And Huckabee is still struggling to appeal beyond his evangelical base. In two states now, Michigan and South Carolina, his message of economic populism has failed to make substantial inroads...
...McCain has no shortage of other people critiquing his record as well. His campaign has had to endure a string of third-party attacks, including one nasty message alleging that the former Vietnam POW had somehow betrayed his fellow American captives. While he enjoys a solid base of support in a state with a large population of active and retired members of the military, the former Vietnam POW is dogged in the state by the same burden that sank his candidacy in Iowa - his stance on immigration. On Friday, at a campaign rally in Mt. Pleasant, one McCain supporter, Mike...
...British made a major mistake neglecting to place the British Council's activities in Russia on a solid legal base," a senior MFA official told TIME. "We have been lenient for 14 years." The official didn't beat around the bush as to why the "lenience" abruptly ended: "It's in tune with the general deterioration of our relationship with Britain, there is no denying that. Otherwise, we could have kept looking the other...