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...Harvard, the handful of hard-core Giuliani supporters are turning their sights on New Hampshire. Giuliani has consistently polled behind former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney there as the much-anticipated Jan. 8 primary looms...
...McCain, already 71, would be the oldest President in history. Giuliani has so far tiptoed around the subjects of his ex-wives, his alienated children and questions about his business practices. Romney has been elected to office exactly once, has a record of changing his positions on an unusually wide range of issues, and just announced that he's a Mormon to a nation that might not otherwise have known or even cared. Though as smooth as corn syrup on the outside, preacherman Huckabee is low on cash, light on organization and may not be able to fill the pews...
...Romney could be speaking for the entire field when he says, as he has done, "I'm not perfect." But one longtime political operative explained that the flaws are grander and gaudier this time, and so the question for voters becomes not whom do you like, but who can win. That means, he says, that what the Republicans are mounting in 2008 is not a race of passion or principle but simply one of pragmatism. It may also explain why the party's normally ferocious enthusiasm is so far absent in every poll...
...party's evangelical base has declared independence from its leaders. This fall, the Old Guard of the Christian right serially christened their preferred candidates. The Rev. Pat Robertson went for Giuliani; the National Right to Life Committee came out for Thompson; Bob Jones III and Paul Weyrich endorsed Romney. Few believed that Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist who actually seemed to be one of them, could win. And then, lo and behold, rank-and-file Evangelicals went off and lined up in unexpected numbers for the former Arkansas Governor. The falcons heard the falconers - and then flew...
...benefits, in the meantime, from all this upheaval? Every campaign has its constantly adjusting story line, how a win here by one guy or there by another benefits its man. McCain's team thinks the party will come to its senses and rally around the veteran. Romney hopes to emerge as the least objectionable choice everywhere. Giuliani's entire campaign is predicated on chaos lasting until late January, when he thinks he can clobber his rivals in Florida. And Huckabee is hoping for a miracle. Only one thing is guaranteed: some candidate, however bruised and battered, will survive this gauntlet...