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...that, however, a really great primary campaign - and 2008 is shaping up as one for the ages - is a remarkable exercise in popular democracy. Think of some of the stories that have already been told this year: the Evangelical community, tired of being courted and then ignored by smoother Republican candidates, turning out in Iowa to support Mike Huckabee, a man who is authentically of their stock, even if the party establishment thought him a lightweight; the thousands of college students who have seen in Barack Obama someone who speaks to their, and not their parents', concerns; the women...
There's a reason they call it the "Firewall." From its inception, the South Carolina Republican primary was meant to douse the flames of political passion. The late GOP strategic wizard Lee Atwater designed the thing to give conservative Southerners a say in the presidential process and offer churchgoers a power line to the White House. Then he scheduled it right after Iowa and New Hampshire, the ideal spot for the party establishment to suppress an insurgent candidate's momentum...
Perhaps the biggest factor separating the two is the sway of evangelical voters, who dominate the Republican base. David Woodard, who helps run the Clemson University Palmetto Poll, says that over the past 20 years, 60% to 70% of the state's likely Republican-primary voters go to church at least once a week. Of that group, about half are Southern Baptist, the faith of Pastor Huckabee...
John McCain's town-hall meetings in New Hampshire the weekend before he won the primary were packed--a fire marshal had to keep overflow people from entering one of them--and not with conservatives. At a school in Salem, the Republican fielded question after question from his left. What would he do to promote gun control? How would he fight global warming? How could he justify not raising taxes? More than an hour into the event, a woman got up and complained about liberal smear artists. She was the first questioner who was obviously a Republican...
...also talked about how your candidacy might redefine the Republican Party in slightly different ways in that you are for climate change [reform] and other social issues that you have taken positions on that are not usually associated with the Republican Party. Is that a direction that you think the party can grow? And also immigration.... On an issue such as climate change... That is a return to the Republican Party all through the earliest party of the 20th century. Teddy Roosevelt was a great environmentalist. [Ronald] Reagan even was an environmentalist.... So some of the things that...