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...last time he ran. "I think that this emerging change in mind-set, at least within significant segments of the Democratic Party, could pay tremendous dividends if the Republicans are foolish enough to nominate Rudy Giuliani," says Richard Land, the Southern Baptist Convention's political guru. While a Mitt Romney nomination might suppress evangelical turnout, he says, as long as there is a basic difference over abortion, socially conservative voters will pick the pro-life candidate. "But if you take the abortion issue off the table," Land predicts, "then a lot of these other issues get oxygen they aren...
Another Democrat, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, has run ads in Iowa, as has a leading Republican candidate, former Gov. Mitt Romney...
...Republican side, neither McCain nor Giuliani have hired youth vote coordinators, though Giuiliani does employ the same Republican pollster that Smith's team has used. A spokesman for McCain emphasized the campaign's presence on Facebook and MySpace. Mitt Romney's campaign has not met with Smith, says a campaign spokesman, because he already learned how to do successful youth vote outreach as Massachusetts . Recently Romney announced a "Students for Mitt" program in which college students receive a 10% commission for every $1,000 they raise for the campaign...
...Overall, the Republicans' fundraising is expected to run well behind that of the Democratic candidates. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the first-quarter GOP champ with nearly $21 million raised, is downplaying his prospects this time - and his announcement this week that he intends to loan his campaign money from his personal fortune bears that out. The expectation is that the loan will probably bring his total receipts above $20 million. The Romney campaign is also saying its report will show it has been spending heavily, building an operation that now totals around 200 employees and investing more than...
...million, it will add to the perception that his campaign has entered a death spiral from which it will be difficult to recover. McCain also had spent heavily in the first quarter, leaving him with only $5.2 million cash on hand, which was less than half of what Romney and Giuliani had left. The campaign says it has worked to reduce its expenses, by, among other things, paying its contractors less...