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...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...
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...