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...Obama best represents our attitudes about the uses of faith in politics. In contrast to Romney, who in his 2007 speech “Faith in America” sought to unite believing voters, in his own 2006 signature speech on religion and public life Senator Obama called for a coalition of progressives, both believers and secularists. Obama possesses the unique perspective as a lifelong rationalist and recent convert to speak sincerely to all Americans...
...That's why all the leading candidates - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; Republicans John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee - have campaigned through Missouri in recent days. Obama and Clinton have made multiple stops as they scrambled for the edge in a race too close to call...
...Even so, two recent polls indicate that McCain is opening a substantial lead over Mitt Romney, whose main backer in the state is the unpopular lame-duck Gov. Matt Blunt. "We're down to a McCain-Romney fight," said Selck. "And it's my opinion John McCain is going to do well. Mitt Romney is the big-shot Easterner to all us poor folks. John McCain is a hero...
...fact, judging from the limited polling that has been done in Missouri, Romney is in danger of falling behind Huckabee, another former Arkansas governor. Huckabee is doing well in the conservative Christian strongholds of southern Missouri, and may end up helping McCain by pulling members of the Reliable Right away from Romney. McCain, meanwhile, stands to pick up the independent voters who have been the engine of his momentum...
There had to be a metaphor somewhere - it was all too symbolic: Mitt Romney, the often-hyped Massachusetts governor turned presidential candidate, was watching the also-hyped New England Patriots as they approached the apparent verge of Super Bowl victory Sunday, just two days before the biggest election of Romney's life, Super Tuesday, when 21 states would shape the fate of his White House dreams...