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...Giuliani is the most popular candidate among college-age Republicans, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics poll of 18- to 24-year-old likely voters across the country. Twenty-six percent of Republican respondents favored Giuliani in the fall poll, but 30 percent say they are undecided—mirroring the fluidity of the race nationwide...
...already well known for having almost every questionable, old politician from the bad old days of corrupt governments," commented the Bangkok Post in an editorial. Corruption appears rife. "We've had a lot of reports of vote-buying," says Montri Kiatkhamjorn, a senior officer for the Election Commission, the poll watchdog, in Isaan. "It seems like it's become the culture of this election already." Montri reckons "maybe 50%" of candidates are buying votes in the region, often using hard-to-track methods. A candidate might pay for a funeral or another important local ceremony, clear a gambler's debt...
...crowd loved it. The council held a straw poll, and Huckabee won first place. Two top officials at the council, both Evangelicals, were so impressed that they have gone to work for the campaign. And now Huckabee leads in Iowa, thanks to the support of Evangelicals and other conservative Protestants...
...like, but who can win. That means, he says, that what the Republicans are mounting in 2008 is not a race of passion or principle but simply one of pragmatism. It may also explain why the party's normally ferocious enthusiasm is so far absent in every poll...
...evidenced by his highly publicized campaign swing with Oprah Winfrey last weekend, Obama isn't exactly ceding the female vote to Clinton. In fact a recent Des Moines Register poll showed Obama overtaking Clinton among women voters for the first time in the race - 31% to Clinton...