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...Certainly it would be a big advantage to him.' CHARLIE BLACK, chief strategist for John McCain, saying a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would benefit the Republican candidate's presidential campaign; Black later apologized...
...hard out there for a Christian Right leader. Last December came and went with barely a peep about a grinchy liberal "War on Christmas." The Republican nominee, John McCain, has refused to make the pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, telling the Focus on the Family leader to come to him instead. But the biggest problem is that Democrats - and Barack Obama in particular - are determined to make a play for a bloc of voters over whom Dobson and his colleagues have traditionally maintained exclusive control. And those voters seem willing to listen...
...just the latest in a series of unexpected election year outcomes, incumbent Representative Chris Cannon lost his bid for re-election in the Republican primary in Utah's 3rd district, one of the most conservative districts in the country...
...First-time candidate Jason Chaffetz defeated Cannon by a margin of 60 to 40%. Chaffetz told supporters after, "I think we've been given a mandate to return the Republican Party to its core conservative principles." Cannon blamed low voter turnout for the defeat, telling the Salt Lake Tribune that what happened was "a revolution. A revolution by the people sitting at home...
...Despite weak fundraising, Chaffetz quickly gained support among local activists who remained disenchanted with Cannon. Like previous opponents, he pounded Cannon on immigration, but met even more success by painting Cannon as a representative of a Republican establishment that had become too profligate and too moderate for their constituents. At the state party convention in May, Chaffetz received 59% of the delegates' votes, 1% away from making a primary runoff moot...