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...Bill Clinton has spent more and more time on the trail for his wife - often to mixed reviews. But their South Carolina strategy carries a one-two punch. By not actively campaigning here for most of this week, Clinton is essentially ceding the state to Obama, who, on the strength of the black vote, is ahead here by 10.5 percentage points, according to an average of South Carolina polls by Real Clear Politics. Not making a real effort here allows her to discount an Obama win as uncontested, and hence less meaningful. But by leaving the state to her husband...
...four-man field, in which each candidate has roughly the same momentum and factional strength (if not the same war chest), raises the distinct possibility that several candidates will split those delegates, postponing further the emergence of a front-runner. And that means the G.O.P. race could go on much longer than anyone imagined. It might even result in no candidate getting a majority of delegates when the primaries are over, a prospect that Republicans are starting to take very seriously...
...Second, regional identities could hasten the divide-and-conquer approach. Under this scenario, each candidate plays - for reasons of time, money and simplicity - to his geographical strength. That has happened in the past in big, multi-candidate, multi-state primaries. Given the nature of the field - one candidate from New York, another from the Southwest; a third from the heartland and a fourth who's got both cultural links to the intermountain West and a record in New England - it could well happen again...
John McCain: Can he lock down Republicans? The common thread among his victories so far has been his strength with independents. And in South Carolina, independents once again pulled him over the finish line, though he is making inroads within his party. Exit polls indicated he tied Huckabee among voters who identified themselves as Republicans, with each of them winning 30%. (Among independents, however, McCain won 39-22%.) McCain may well need a sharper, more conservative message going forward, especially. One thing McCain has going for him: The more he wins, the more he looks like a winner-which...
...Asian experience is an old strength of the order: St. Francis Xavier being the Jesuit's great Apostle to the East, who converted hundreds in Japan, died off the coast of China and has his body enshrined in the Indian city of Goa. Jesuits converted the last survivors of the Ming dynasty to Catholicism as they fled the Manchu invaders in the mid-17th century. But Nicolas also brings in another important strand of history: he hails from the northern city of Palencia, not too far from hometown of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Basque soldier who founded...