Word: caucus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There is an odd, anachronistic formality to Obama's stump speech: it is always the same. It sets his audiences afire, but it does not reach very far beyond them. It is no accident that Obama is nearly invincible in caucus states, where the ability to mobilize a hard core of activists is key - but not so strong in primaries, where more diverse masses of people are involved. He should be very worried that this nomination is likely to be decided in the big working-class primary states of Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania...
...Mike Huckabee [AL, AR, GA, TN, WV] did far better than expected, which is mostly 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...
...determined to bury him there once and for all. McCain remained the Man to Beat, but his opponents were giving it their best shot. Seeing Romney closing in on him in California, McCain's forces joined hands with Huckabee's to deny Romney a victory in the West Virginia caucus; on the second ballot, with McCain's help, Huckabee won with 52% of the vote. Romney managed victories in his home states of Massachusetts and Utah, as well as North Dakota. But across the south, with victories in Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas, Huckabee demonstrated again that his faithful congregation...
...placard-wielding Clinton and Obama supporters trading slogans and insults, or just bellowing greetings to newcomers pushing into the hall, Bill Barnard pleads for attention. "Ladies and gentlemen," says the chairman of the British branch of Democrats Abroad, "we have a serious problem." To anyone unaccustomed to the rowdy caucus tradition, that statement might seem self-evident. "It's chaos," says Barbara Lewis, a 64-year-old American who has lived abroad for 37 years and, until tonight, had never cast a vote. Like the hundreds of U.S. citizens still queuing to enter the building and the hundreds more already...
...Vienna, which was celebrating its annual Fasching carnival with traditional masked revelries, an "Abraham Lincoln" voted alongside a "Hillary Clinton" and a cowgirl. Voters in New Delhi were given donkey-shaped cookies. London, home to 200,000 Americans, staged the most ambitious event - a Feb. 5 primary with caucus-like elements such as a public show of support for the two candidates...