Word: republican
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...paying off where it counts. In Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses next February, the Des Moines Register ran an editorial on Kosovo and the various candidates under the headline MCCAIN 1, OTHERS 0. And in New Hampshire, where McCain hopes the state's famously independent-minded Republicans will reward his independence, a poll last week showed him leapfrogging over some of the lower-tier G.O.P. candidates into third place behind front runners George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole. The result has been a boost in direct-mail fund-raising receipts and a spike in interest among activists...
...will be decided, however, by Republican primary voters, who are inclined to care more about cutting taxes or preventing abortions than they do about banning soft money or saving the Kosovar Albanians. And that may be a problem for McCain. Asked what he learned from Bob Dole's failed campaign in 1996, in which Dole listlessly touted a 15% across-the-board income-tax cut, McCain replies, "If you don't believe in it, don't say it. And if you do believe in it, say it with some passion." And sure enough, when McCain talks about the "corruption" caused...
...warning signs, neither did the people who saw the boys every day. The owner of the pizza parlor where they worked says they were model employees. For all the talk of fierce racism, Harris was well liked back in Plattsburgh, where his best friends, according to the local Press-Republican, were black and Asian. As for the neo-Nazi Klebold, his great-grandfather was a prominent Jewish philanthropist back in Ohio...
Dole, who graduated from Harvard Law School (HLS) in 1965, was one of the first women to attend HLS. She was president of the American Red Cross from 1991 until this January, when she resigned to explore the possibility of running for the presidency as the Republican candidate...
...think she'll be able to speak to a broad range of people. That's based on the kind of person that she is. She's not a far right-wing Republican...she won't alienate people," Walbrick said...