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Several of the GOP candidates have qualities that might appeal to independent voters: Rudy Giuliani's successful record as mayor of New York City, Mitt Romney's intelligence and competence, Mike Huckabee's concern for the poor. But McCain just won more independent voters than the others in the swing state of New Hampshire. And he is the only candidate with a platform that might attract them...
Huckabee's radical tax plan--replacing the income and payroll tax with a national sales tax--is a right-wing cause. Giuliani's support for legal abortion repels some independents while attracting others--and to make up for it with conservatives, he has toed the line on just about everything else. Romney and Fred Thompson have been too busy trying to prove their movement-conservative creds to pay attention to independents...
...Iowa and New Hampshire and Michigan and then riding the momentum created by those victories to wins in the bigger states on Jan. 29 and Feb. 5. That was the way Romney was going to overcome his low name recognition nationally against celebrity opponents like McCain and Rudy Giuliani. Now the momentum belongs to McCain and Mike Huckabee, whose Iowa win and more-than-respectable third place finish in New Hampshire make him the candidate to beat in the Jan. 19th South Carolina primary, which has historically been vital in deciding who will win the G.O.P. nomination...
What do you think would happen if those social issues started to become more of a factor? Do you think it would change the debate? Would it get uglier or less ugly? I don't know, but I could draw you a scenario where Rudy Giuliani also has traction among that other spectrum in the party. There is a pro-choice element within the Republican party. There is a New York kind...
...looking for Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, to do well in Yankee New Hampshire. He spent the days leading up to the primary cooking up photo ops and retooling his Iowa-focused message for a more national audience. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson continued to underperform their supporters' early hopes, while the libertarian contrarian Ron Paul continued to exert his narrow but intense appeal...