Word: mccains
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, so it's the kind of place that might like a rebel like Senator John McCain. In fact, the symbol of that rebellion still flies above the statehouse today. But the Confederate flag also stands for a tradition that is likely to help Texas Governor George W. Bush even more: resistance to change. Conservatives who like the established way of things have kept the state's senior Senator, Republican Strom Thurmond, in Washington for 45 years, making him the longest-serving member...
...South Carolina Republicans have yet to hear McCain's rebel yell. Their primary comes just 18 days after New Hampshire's, but last week's TIME/CNN poll of likely Republican primary voters shows that 62% of them favor Bush, vs. 15% for McCain. Because South Carolina is the second important primary test, the Arizonan badly needs a victory there to start a brush fire capable of consuming Bush's considerable advantage in money, endorsements and organization in future states. "My campaign will rise or fall depending on what happens in South Carolina," McCain told TIME...
With the stakes so high, such low numbers are clearly a disappointment to a campaign that feels as if it has the momentum, but the McCain operation argues that it has time to catch up. The hustle that has taken McCain so far in the Granite State hasn't yet been fully effective in South Carolina, where 33% of G.O.P. voters don't know enough about McCain to have either a good or a bad opinion of him, according to the TIME/CNN poll. To fix that, the McCain videotaped biography has been mailed to party activists, and the TV-commercial...
...McCain has softness of his own. Social conservatives are particularly suspicious of him. While admiring his service to his country, some have been worried about his commitment to the unborn ever since he told the San Francisco Chronicle last August that he would not work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Others cite his willingness to meet with gay Republicans--though he opposes gay marriage and gay adoption--as a possible indication of openness to the "gay-rights agenda...
...battle between the top two G.O.P. candidates will take place in trenches already carved within the South Carolina G.O.P. Bush has knit his family ties into an organization backed by establishment Republican politicians and old hands like former Governor Carroll Campbell. McCain is backed by members of the more obstinate wing of the South Carolina clan, which includes Congressman Lindsey Graham, a folk hero made famous by his quirky orations as a House manager during the President's impeachment trial, and Mark Sanford, an unflappable budget hawk. "The McCain campaign is a revolt," says Richard Quinn, McCain...