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...Romney who wants to be President - and once again it comes at a moment that has the potential to redefine the Republican Party. He has surprised the party's top contenders by raising more than $21 million, easily outpacing John McCain's anemic $13 million and Rudy Giuliani's $16 million. He's leading the other Republicans in one New Hampshire poll. And in the recent Republican debate, when the 2008 field was first lined up onstage, he was widely proclaimed the winner because of his Presidential bearing. The shell-shocked G.O.P. is looking away from Washington for a fresh...
...Rudy Giuliani's decision to be more forthright about his pro-choice stance on abortion may be the boldest step of the Presidential campaign so far. And while it's certainly a gamble, because it will likely inflame the social-issue conservatives who form a key minority in the Republican party, it's far from reckless. On the contrary, it is the first tangible sign that a candidate has done some hard thinking about the radically changed nature of this year's primary schedule and, in Giuliani's case, decided that the reign of social conservatives is coming...
...rush by big states to hold early primaries appears to favor front-runners with high name recognition, like Giuliani. At the same time, it diminishes the influence that small states have traditionally had on the nominating process - most of all, perhaps, the influence of the Iowa caucuses, where very small groups of highly motivated caucus-goers have had more impact, per capita, than any voters in the country...
...Giuliani's move is a clear bet that social conservatives' power in the nominating process will be broken bv Tsunami Tuesday - the Feb. 5 super-primary featuring such mass-market states as New York, California and New Jersey. "He understands that there are a lot of Republicans out there who are sick of everyone kowtowing to the single-issue extremists," said one veteran Republican observer in Washington. "He's breaking from the pack...
...personal candor, leaving no doctrinal wiggle room for pro-choice Catholic politicians. It remains to be seen how it plays out with individual priests and the political leaders in their diocese - and whether it will become an issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign for candidates such as Rudy Giuliani...