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There is - as any who have followed one will attest - a thrill to a closely fought American presidential primary campaign that is quite unlike that provided by any other kind of political event. The earnest coffee mornings in Iowa homes and the packed school gyms in New Hampshire; the air wars - a relentless blitz of TV ads - in megastates such as New York and California; the retail politics as candidates tramp through slush and frozen stubble; the defining moments that summon up memories of campaigns long ago - how come it was OK for Hillary Clinton to tear...
...primary campaign - and 2008 is shaping up as one for the ages - is a remarkable exercise in popular democracy. Think of some of the stories that have already been told this year: the Evangelical community, tired of being courted and then ignored by smoother Republican candidates, turning out in Iowa to support Mike Huckabee, a man who is authentically of their stock, even if the party establishment thought him a lightweight; the thousands of college students who have seen in Barack Obama someone who speaks to their, and not their parents', concerns; the women in New Hampshire who rescued Hillary...
McCain's immediate problem in South Carolina is his ally from Iowa and New Hampshire. Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas Governor and Baptist pastor, has built a double-digit lead in polls of the state's heavily Baptist electorate. For weeks, the two men have praised each other's talents and made common cause against their well-funded adversary, Mitt Romney. No more: Romney has diverted resources from South Carolina to Michigan, where he hopes to revive his wounded campaign with a primary win on Jan. 15. "It's not that we don't recognize that we are competing...
...South Carolina Republican primary was meant to douse the flames of political passion. The late GOP strategic wizard Lee Atwater designed the thing to give conservative Southerners a say in the presidential process and offer churchgoers a power line to the White House. Then he scheduled it right after Iowa and New Hampshire, the ideal spot for the party establishment to suppress an insurgent candidate's momentum...
...Huckabee's South Carolina chairman, the state's former Governor, David Beasley, stood behind Huckabee as he celebrated his third-place finish in New Hampshire. In an interview afterward, Beasley argued that Huckabee could be an unstoppable force, marrying his populist momentum from Iowa with an Establishment tie to the state as a fellow Southern Governor. "McCain will get a small bump," Beasley said of the Arizona Senator's New Hampshire win. But, he predicted, it would not be enough. In 2000 Beasley backed another Southern Governor, George W. Bush, in a triumph over McCain. Eight years later, Beasley foresees...