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...recently told a Nevada editorial board. The Senator took some notable, if not quite accurate, grief from Hillary Clinton over that: she said he was expressing support for Republican ideas (clearly, he wasn't). But what did he actually mean? People - and not just Republicans - have been calling the GOP the party of ideas for nearly 30 years, since Ronald Reagan transformed the mushy, defensive conservatism of his party into a sleek ideological message celebrating individual freedom, military strength and traditional moral values...
...January 29. It is an election in which the winner takes all of the 57 delegates at stake, and one in which-unlike contests in New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina-only Republicans will be allowed to vote. And for the first time, none of the four top GOP contenders can afford to skip the race...
...have put McCain over the top was an assist from his friend and distant third - place finisher Fred Thompson, who may have siphoned off some of Huckabee's evangelical support in conservative counties. Otherwise, exit polling showed McCain and Huckabee in a dead heat for the heart of the GOP, with roughly the same amount of support from those with a positive view of the Bush administration, those without a college education and self - identified Republicans...
...turned out, all those factors paled next to Clinton's perceived strengths on the issue that has suddenly rocketed to the top of voters' concerns nationally - the economy. Clinton won 51% of the overall vote to Obama's 45% and Edwards' embarrassingly low 4%. (Mitt Romney won the GOP caucuses easily, capitalizing on Nevada's sizeable Mormon population and the fact that none of his Republican opponents made more than a token effort in the Silver State.) Roughly 100,000 voters participated in caucuses that were moved forward in the primary calendar specifically to give a western state...
...nation status. But after Michigan and Florida jumped their primaries ahead and forced Iowa and New Hampshire even earlier, Nevada now finds itself the fifth state that will pick presidential nominees. And because South Carolina is holding its crucial, bitterly contested Republican primary on the same day, the GOP caucus has become a mere afterthought (Mitt Romney is expected...