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...results showed the clearest picture yet of the Republican nomination fight. McCain has both cemented his position as the Republican front-runner, and failed to win the support of much of his party's conservative base. Romney has also failed, thus far, to establish himself as the clear standard-bearer for that conservative movement, especially in the South, where Huckabee holds an obvious claim to the evangelical vote...
...Each Romney iteration has been backed by significant spending, but none has achieved mass appeal in a Republican Party that has long been dissatisfied with its candidate options. On Thursday, Romney is scheduled to try again, with a speech before the Conservative Political Action conference in Washington, the premier annual meeting of activists who largely distrust McCain. (McCain is also scheduled to speak...
Over the past century, Missouri has proved a nearly flawless barometer of presidential elections. So it was only fitting in this year's muddled nomination races that both its Democratic and Republican races on Super Tuesday were two of the tightest in the nation, with Barack Obama and John McCain winning their respective contests by the slightest of margins...
...People are especially jazzed about the Democratic race. For every three votes cast in the Republican primary, there were more than four cast in the Democratic contest. Both of the top Democrats, Obama and Hillary Clinton, won more than twice as many votes as the top Republican finisher, McCain...
...Reports of a Christian conservative takeover of the GOP have been exaggerated. While the evangelical right is a key part of the Republican coalition, it's not decisive - certainly not in a swing state. Sixty percent of Missouri voters in the Republican exit poll said they attend church least once a week. Even more - 76% - said abortion should be illegal. Yet the winner was not the first choice of evangelical Protestants opposed to abortion. Conservative Christians buoyed Mike Huckabee to a strong second-place, but Huck's inability to reach beyond that base left him an also...