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While Mike Huckabee is surging in both polls and fund-raising, he is far behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in terms of organization--a key factor in Iowa, where 1,781 caucuses determine the winner. Each campaign must recruit voters in every caucus to stand up and make their candidate's case. That kind of outreach can take a long time...
...Romney has a much more extensive organization in terms of manpower," says Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, who is not endorsing a candidate this cycle. Evangelicals, who make up about 40% of GOP caucusgoers, are drawn to Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist pastor. But Romney has a formidable head start signing them up. Huckabee is scrambling to gain ground, recently taping an interview with a Christian media company--for a small fraction of the cost of television advertising--that churches and congregants can download and watch. And he's counting on the organizational prowess of his homeschooling...
...october the Republican Presidential candidates spoke before social conservatives, mostly Evangelicals, at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit. The event was awkward for several of the contenders. Mitt Romney's Mormonism does not go over well with all evangelical Christians. Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice. John McCain famously called some Christian conservatives "agents of intolerance" during his 2000 presidential campaign...
...Members of the élite, like Mitt Romney and Representatives Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, are whipping up the U.S.'s xenophobia to divide the nation. The root of the problem is that the law does not allow needed immigrant workers to come to the U.S. legally. The so-called illegal immigrants are no more illegal than those who settled America. If anyone is to blame, it is the companies that provide employment to the new settlers. Neil Redlien, TOWSON...
...their honor, and if the candidates don’t attend the media depicts their absence as apathy. In September, for example, PBS personality Tavis Smiley hosted a debate on minority issues, which the top tier candidates, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and Thompson, skipped. “Top Republicans scolded for skipping black debate,” and “Smiley: GOP ignores minorities” the next day’s headlines yelped...