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...Democratic party has national guidelines, whereas the GOP lets each state run its own system. The Democrats require states to send delegates based on the votes gained by each candidate to the national Democratic convention, where the nominee is officially announced. On the Republican side, some states use a winner-take-all system in which the state's quota of delegates to the national convention is devoted entirely to the candidate who won the most votes in that state...
This year, much attention has been focused on the New York Republican party's nominating process. The New York GOP has an onerous process that requires a candidate to garner signatures in each voting district in order to get listed on a party ballot. This year John McCain, running a close second in the state behind George W. Bush - who has gotten vocal support from state GOP heads, including Governor George Pataki - petitioned a state court to add him to the ballots of more than a dozen upstate districts that left him off. At the same time Steve Forbes...
They never thought it'd come to this. In the early days of this election cycle, the GOP's top brass were patting themselves on the back for producing a new Teflon candidate - a man everybody thought would breeze through the primaries unscathed. But by Monday night, wearied by two weeks of hostile six-way debates and faced with a viable challenger in the form of John McCain, George W. Bush was forced to lean on the 11th Commandment of Republican campaigning - don't hurt the party. And thus Bush and McCain staged a minor p.r. coup, shaking hands...
...rule of politics is that when your opponent is hurting himself, you stay out of his way," says Tumulty. But Bush did take advantage of his challenger's sudden vulnerability to press home his claim to the Reagan Republican mantle. McCain's campaign finance reform plan would hurt the GOP, he warned. And Bush not only repeated his father's "no new taxes" pledge, but also promised a tax cut, leaving McCain to counter that saving Social Security should take priority over cutting taxes - a position familiar to anyone who's listened in on a White House media conference...
Look for George W. Bush's smile/smirk to get even wider. While the Texas governor came out swinging on taxes and Social Security in Thursday night's candidates' debate, his only serious rival for the GOP nomination - Senator John McCain - appeared to be suffering an image meltdown. Even before the debate began, the media had the long-time champion of campaign finance reform on the rack over interventions he made on behalf of his own donors. At issue was a letter the Arizona senator had written, in his capacity as Senate Commerce Committee chairman, urging that the Federal Communications Commission...