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| 2007-12-16 |
| Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign is teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horserace numbers say. The notion that she has a post-Iowa "firewall" in New Hampshire is a fantasy, and she is in danger of losing all four early contests, including Nevada and South Carolina -- probably to Sen. Barack Obama, who is now, in momentum terms, the Democratic frontrunner. On the Republican side, meanwhile, the race is shaping up in an even more unexpected way: a contest between two former Northern moderates (Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney) for the right to take on a Southern Baptist preacher, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who believes in the inerrancy of Scripture but not in Darwinian evolution. This week is the last chance the candidates will gather en masse to confront each other, and in a neutral setting. They are wending their way through ice storms to Iowa, where the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television are hosting back-to-back debates. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Huckabee is being talked up by the MSM, because he'd lose to just about any Democrat. Huckabee may be appealing to social conservatives, but he's anathema to libertarians and moderates. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-12-16 14:23 |
| #2 Huckabee sounds terrible. I think Hitlary might be better. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-12-16 11:53 |
| #1 this is a Dec 13 article since that time a few things have happened notably, McCain is getting stronger in NH |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-12-16 00:19 |