Word: carolina
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...Governors squabble among themselves, it's over who will throw up the best fire wall, should McCain wound Bush in New Hampshire or South Carolina. "I'm solid asbestos," Michigan Governor John Engler crows. "I'm not conceding anything to McCain in New Hampshire, but when he gets to Michigan on Feb. 22, he runs into a state where I've got an organization that has won for me three times, where the legislature is overwhelmingly for Bush, where 65% of county chairmen are already lined up. On Veteran's Day, in bellwether Macomb County, 250 leaders came out from...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Civil rights leader to get monument on the Tidal Basin. If only he can get a day off in South Carolina...
...numbers are clearly a disappointment to a campaign that feels as if it has the momentum, but the McCain operation argues that it has time to catch up. The hustle that has taken McCain so far in the Granite State hasn't yet been fully effective in South Carolina, where 33% of G.O.P. voters don't know enough about McCain to have either a good or a bad opinion of him, according to the TIME/CNN poll. To fix that, the McCain videotaped biography has been mailed to party activists, and the TV-commercial version has been airing for the past...
Bush can also take comfort in the state's affection for front runners--particularly those named Bush. In 1988, George Bush's tactician, Lee Atwater, set up a "fire wall" in South Carolina, building up such support that the Governor's father was able to bury a threat from Bob Dole. And unlike New Hampshire, which takes pride in wobbling the status quo, South Carolina has regularly put a warm arm around the party establishment's candidate and eventual G.O.P. nominee. It saved Dole after Pat Buchanan's surprise New Hampshire victory...
...battle between the top two G.O.P. candidates will take place in trenches already carved within the South Carolina G.O.P. Bush has knit his family ties into an organization backed by establishment Republican politicians and old hands like former Governor Carroll Campbell. McCain is backed by members of the more obstinate wing of the South Carolina clan, which includes Congressman Lindsey Graham, a folk hero made famous by his quirky orations as a House manager during the President's impeachment trial, and Mark Sanford, an unflappable budget hawk. "The McCain campaign is a revolt," says Richard Quinn, McCain...