Word: iowa
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...Obama's narrow defeat at the hands of the Senator he just a few days earlier had clobbered in Iowa deprived the challenger of the clear and undisputed momentum he had enjoyed after Iowa. The outcome instead sends the Democratic race into several weeks of tough and expensive, hedgerow-to-hedgerow combat. About the only thing that is certain now is that the race will remain unclear for some time to come...
...Obama campaign is now settling in for a more prolonged siege - of, and by, the Clinton campaign - than many might have expected just a few days ago. The heady moments after Iowa have given way to a grittier roadmap going forward and Obama's challenges may be increasing as the Clinton operation is reborn...
...disrupt and destroy the flames of political passion. Lee Atwater, the party's onetime strategic wizard, 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 put it on the calendar right after Iowa and New Hampshire, the ideal spot for the party establishment to kill an insurgent candidate's momentum...
McCain's immediate problem in South Carolina is his ally from Iowa and New Hampshire. Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, has been polling with a double-digit lead among the state's heavily Baptist electorate. For weeks the two men have praised each other talents and made common cause against their well-funded adversary, Mitt Romney, who will try to salvage his wounded campaign next week with a win in Michigan on January 15, four days before the vote in South Carolina. "It's not that we don't recognize that we are competing for the same job," Huckabee...
...mutual love is a long shot to last. Already, Huckabee is airing television ads in the state boasting of his tough approach to illegal immigration, McCain's Achilles' heel. Meanwhile McCain's strength, foreign policy experience, happens to be Huckabee's most glaring weakness. (In the run-up to Iowa, the silver-tongued Huckabee seemed to blow a fact or have a verbal slip whenever he tried to speak about the crisis in Pakistan...