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...audience are true music lovers," said a man surnamed Song, an amateur vocalist who hovered around the theater in freezing temperatures hoping to find a cheap ticket from the scalpers. "People think going to Western operas and classical-music concerts is a sign of a certain social status, and the National Grand Theater is also a novelty to them. I doubt many of them really understand opera...
...contest between Romney and Huckabee has been widely framed as a contest between Iowans' body parts: head (Romney) versus heart (Huckabee). Will most of the people who show up on caucus night be "heart" people - the loosely organized homeschoolers and evangelicals to whom Huckabee owes his front-runner status? Or will they be "head" people, precisely targeted and courted by the Romney campaign? (Staffers boast of having made over 36,000 phone calls to supporters in the past two days...
...Hampshire primary. Many forget that Paul Tsongas - the lethargic, fiscal conservative from Massachusetts - actually won the '92 New Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft status during Vietnam turned a second-place finish into a triumph. "Tonight, New Hampshire's made me the Comeback Kid ... I've proven one thing: I can take a punch." Those two sentences defined the rest of the race - and arguably, Clinton's presidency...
...anonymous mailings includes a seven-year-old news article about a church that lost its tax-exempt status after paying for a newspaper ad that criticized former President Bill Clinton. Another mailing warns church leaders against "campaigning" for a candidate, before announcing in capital letters: "IT WILL LAND YOU IN THE SLAMMER!" The letter, which is signed by "Concerned Christian," then suggests that churches should avoid even more anodyne political involvement. "With Sen. Grassley holding hearings on exactly this issue in Washington DC, we can't be to careful!!!!" it states, with a notable misspelling. Hollinger said the letters were...
...neither the campaign nor the candidate are complaining. In fact, their underdog status is a major part of Huckabee's appeal. He mentions it at every stop. "I grew up a lot more comfortable with the people working in the kitchen than the people sitting at the table," Huckabee says at the Pizza Ranch. And the crowds seem...