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...their own renegade primary. It is a huge risk for the state G.O.P. They moved up the primary date without the blessing of Republican National Committee and will lose half their convention delegates for violating the rules. But there may be a big payoff: Wyoming could further confirm front-runner status for Mike Huckabee and give him momentum into the Jan. 8 primary in New Hampshire - or provide Mitt Romney with his first, if minor, stop of what might be a Huckabee steamroller...
...from the local Des Moines Register, as well as rising polls in New Hampshire, where he has vowed to win the primary on January 8. But in Iowa, McCain cannot make it through a town hall without delicately addressing immigration, the topic that cost him his front-runner status last summer, when he prominently supported a bill that would give illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship. "My friends, I learned a lesson," McCain told the crowd. "I got the message." Though he continues to support a path to citizenship, he now says that he would not enact any such...
...Front runner Howard Dean entered Iowa with an aura of inevitability. Then came third place, the "Dean Scream" and, well ... you remember the rest...
...famous for dramatic events in the eleventh hour, and this presidential election is proving to be no different. On Monday, just two days before the Dec. 19 polls, Korea's parliament, the National Assembly, approved a plan to open an investigation into allegations of fraud against presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak. The Assembly greenlighted the probe after a video surfaced over the weekend of a lecture Lee gave in 2000, in which he claimed that he set up Korean investment firm BBK, a connection he had previously denied. Kim Kyung Joon, the head of the company...
Payack, a former marathon runner and an assistant wrestling coach at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (CRLS), also involves himself in the community by attending local sporting events...