Word: gop
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...Warren's presence at Obama's event may have been good news for Democrats and Obama in particular, but it also underlines a real problem for the GOP. As candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination try to prove their conservative credentials and set their sights on the Granite State, they are increasingly out of step with the voters who will decide the coveted first-in-the-nation primary next January. A growing number of New Hampshire Republicans are fiscal conservatives who are leery of the social conservative arm of the party that they feel have steered the leadership away...
...Warren left only half satisfied. "He's close, but he's not there yet," he said. He plans on looking at the GOP candidates in the field before making his final decision, but none of them light a fire under him the way Obama does and he's already ruled out Huckabee and Thompson as too conservative...
...numbers certainly bear that out. Until 2000 the state was majority registered Republican, but it's now 44% undeclared, 30% Republican and 26% Democrat. In the 2006 elections, the GOP lost 91 state legislature seats, six of their 16 state senate seats and both their congressional seats; no wonder Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party called it, a "tsunami." For the first time in more than a century the Democrats now control all levels of New Hampshire government: both chambers of the legislature and the governor's house. While Cullen stresses that tsunamis recede - as recently...
Social conservatives have historically been overrepresented in Iowa politics: Iowa is the state, after all, where Pat Robertson won the 1988 straw poll. But in 2004, Karl Rove's strategy yielded 3.5 million newly registered Evangelicals nationally. Those born-again voters have been underwhelmed by the 2008 GOP front runners: a flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts; a pro-choice, thrice-married New Yorker; and John "Agents of Intolerance" McCain...
Even when conservatives offer a decent health-care idea, the left is suspicious, sensing that the fine print gives poorer, sicker Americans the shaft. For the most part, however, this liberal loathing has been based on instinctive mistrust, with no scientific way to assess GOP indifference--or to separate those Republicans with whom liberals can do business from the hard-hearted monsters they should shun...