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...Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, praised the bill and said it would end President Bush's "pussyfooting" around China's unfair trade practices. Though the White House has filed several complaints against China with the World Trade Orbanization, Republican and Democratic Senators alike have criticized the Administration's actions against China's currency undervaluation as inadequate and unable to stymie the ongoing loss of American manufacturing jobs. The bill would require the Bush Administration to take action against currency manipulators through...
...With those expectations casting Thompson as Reagan reincarnate, it's easy to understand why he's staying out of the race for as long as he can. The next Republican debate takes place Aug. 5 in Des Moines, to be followed six days later by the Iowa straw poll in Ames, an expensive faux election that measures the muscle of a candidate's organization and the thickness of his wallet more than his actual appeal to caucus voters. Thompson advisers decided that the risk of underperforming at either of these high-profile events was too great - and outweighed any advantages...
...huge personal fortune to supplement his fund-raising - and has done so. The former Massachusetts Governor is also the only Republican candidate in the top tier whose poll numbers have been inching upward since the beginning of the year. This is especially true in the lead-off states of Iowa and New Hampshire, where he currently tops the field, a fact that causes some strategists to declare Romney the race's "real front-runner." It is not an unreasonable claim if you consider national polls more or less irrelevant. "You have to accept that Iowa and New Hampshire are still...
...Romney's strength in Iowa and New Hampshire masks his weakness in other key states like South Carolina, where social conservatives are likely to view with suspicion his relatively recent shift to the right on abortion and gay rights. Even more of a problem is his Mormon faith, which some evangelical Protestants consider a cult. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a second-tier contender who is vying for the evangelical vote, has been challenging Romney's claim to be the G.O.P.'s family-values candidate. The Brownback attacks and the Romney rebuttals have been getting far more coverage in religious media...
...been slowly declining since he announced his candidacy in February, Giuliani has defied predictions that his campaign would crater as soon as G.O.P. voters discovered that the hero of 9/11 was pro-choice, pro-gay and pro?gun control. He is betting that even if he loses in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, he can still amass enough delegates with wins in Florida, New York, California and other big, early-primary states to swamp his opponents and cruise to victory...