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...business uncowed. Britain's new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is a son of a minister of the Church of Scotland--Protestantism does not get more muscularly reserved than that--and his political appeal is based much more on experience than empathy. In the U.S., by the same token, Mitt Romney (like Brown, a man born to wear a dark suit) is running on competence rather than feeling. As for Hillary Clinton, that good Methodist, she can wrap her arms around someone, but in the hugging game she is not, let's say, Clintonian...
Polls show Thompson placing second behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the Ames straw poll winner. Ames, though, gave a bump to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who is trying to claim the conservative mantle in the race - a title that Thompson was clearly aiming for in his soapbox speech when he proclaimed himself "strongly pro-life" and pro-gun rights...
When the ballots were finally counted in the Iowa straw poll on the evening of Aug. 11, former Governor Mitt Romney was the winner, with 31.5% of the vote. But it was Mike Huckabee, the laid-back former Governor of Arkansas, who bounded into the press tent ahead of the others to exult in his second-place finish. Romney's win was preordained--he spent a reported $2 million on the event and has led in Iowa polls since mid-May. But Huckabee, who has raised only $1.3 million all year and spent less than $150,000 on the straw...
...join the white-shoed country clubbers. And the party's current despond seemed to enhance the rowdiness in Ames. It was hard to find a happy Republican. "I don't like the three top guys," Howard Taylor, a community-college teacher from Milo told me, referring to Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain. "They don't have Midwestern values." Nor did Taylor like George W. Bush so much anymore. "I think he tried to please some... people. He didn't come up very strong on the social issues." Taylor wasn't thrilled with his fellow Republicans either. "My friends...
...anyone was surprised by Mitt Romney's victory in the straw poll in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, they must not have paid much attention to the race for the 2008 G.O.P. presidential nomination up to this point. The former Massachusetts Governor has maintained a lead ahead of his Republican opponents in the Iowa polls since mid-May. For most of the past year, Romney has targeted his resources in Iowa in an effort to transform himself from a little-known Governor of a liberal northeastern state with dubious conservative credentials into a candidate who can appeal to the social conservatives...