Word: iowa
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Perhaps the biggest factor separating the two men is simple demographics. As in Iowa, Huckabee finds himself with a direct line to the evangelical voters who dominate the Republican base. David Woodard, who helps run the Clemson University Palmetto Poll, says that over the last 20 years, between 60 and 70 percent of the state's likely Republican primary voters have gone to church at least once a week. Of that group, about half are Southern Baptist, the faith of the pastor-turned-politician Huckabee. "When he won in Iowa, that gave him a lot of credibility across the state...
Clinton's speech was merely the fanfare for what aides say will be a dramatic transformation of her campaign. It starts with the message. One of the things Clinton learned from her defeat in Iowa, those around her say, is that her emphasis on experience and readiness was missing its mark. Her speech Tuesday night was less about her and more about the voters: the ones who have lost their mortgages, who can't afford health care and can't get student loans. "Too many have been invisible for too long," she said. "Well, you are not invisible...
Indeed, it did - especially with unmarried women, a key component of the Democratic base. One campaign adviser noted that where Obama won that demographic by 13 percentage points in Iowa, Clinton carried it by 17 points in New Hampshire - a 30-point shift over in the course of five days. (It also couldn't have hurt that a great number of men from the punditocracy spent the hours before the primary gleefully anticipating a Clinton catastrophe...
...feel more comfortable; Doug will make him feel more comfortable," said one campaign adviser. "And they've both been through this before." For now at least, chief strategist Mark Penn - whom many had blamed for failing to recognize the larger forces that had been at work in her Iowa defeat - will remain with the campaign...
...Clemons also made some other bets. For instance, his team figured Iowa "would come out, at best, a muddle," he said. As it happened, it was much worse for Clinton than that. But Clemons had aggressively pushed her supporters to vote absentee, beginning in December - in other words, "to get their votes in before Iowa even happened...