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...York. McCain has pretty much given up hope of winning the delegates in California; recent polls show him trailing Bush by a wide margin. But McCain can still take a major chunk of the popular vote, which he hopes would serve as a wake-up call to the GOP party establishment as they consider their options for November. McCain maintains that he is the most electable Republican candidate, and the polls bear him out, giving McCain a 24-point lead over a presumptive Gore campaign - while Bush has only a nine-point buffer zone between himself and the vice president...
...connection to the Clinton-Gore Asian fund-raising muddle is one of his most prominent pressure points. While prosecutors argued that Hsia, the California immigration consultant who arranged Gore's infamous Buddhist temple fund-raiser, engaged in her illegal activities unbeknownst to the veep or the Democratic party, GOP leadership wasted no time in using the verdict to argue for increased scrutiny of the Democrats' all-but-anointed presidential candidate...
...said Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson in a statement that immediately followed the verdict "and take on the major players like Al Gore." A videotape of Gore's appearance at the Buddhist temple, which has heretofore been embargoed by prosecutors in the Hsia case, is certain to become perennial GOP fodder as the presidential race turns from intra-party rivalry to a battle of the giants...
...tellingly in South Carolina. Bush pulled in strong numbers among voters self-identified as members of the religious right, and among conservative Republicans in general. McCain, on the other hand, grabbed a hefty vote among independents and Democrats. This divide will surely feed the fire already raging between the GOP candidates (and throughout the Republican party at large): Whom should the party support? Bush, the establishment candidate who has played with great success to the conservative wing of the party, or McCain, who has ignited a firestorm of support among the ranks of Democrats and independents, and who may have...
...ultimate trophy) will be a much more germane indicator of nationwide trends than the events in Virginia, or even Washington. "The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about," says Dickerson. But while it is clear that McCain maintains a staggering degree of popularity among nontraditional GOP voters, he may be fighting a losing battle against the pure arithmetic of delegate selection. Since McCain's supporters tend not to be registered with the GOP, Bush could easily triumph in multiple Republican-only, winner-take-all states, bagging all the delegates he needs. In the meantime, the Texas...