48 Hours and Lots of Campaigning Ahead of New Hampshire Primary
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48 Hours and Lots of Campaigning Ahead of New Hampshire Primary
FXNews – Jan 6, 2008
n Sunday night Huckabee’s goal is to try to capture voters’ imagination as he did in Iowa. To that end Huckabee has been slowly changing his rhetoric offering a more populist message that hits on the Republican Party — either the Bush administration’s conduct in the war in Iraq and or a tax structure that he says he wants to change so that the rich don’t become poorer but the poor become richer. “I think the Republican Party needs some repair. The Republican Party needs to remember that its strength was being the champion for small business. Eighty percent of all jobs in this country come from small business” he told “FX News Sunday. “ ”If we become the party that forgets that if we become the party that does not empower the individual who wants to struggle from his place at the lower end of the economic spectrum up the ladder then we’re going to lose a lot of the base that gave us great strength that helped us to become the majority party that built the Reagan coalition that also helped elect both George Bush 41 and George Bush 43″ he said. Huckabee also hit on Romney who has faced a series of attacks since before the Iowa caucuses last week.
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New York Times – Jan 6, 2008
Even then local LDS leaders apparently assigned church members almost at random to join one of the two parties in roughly equal numbers. As of the 20th century through engagement with the federal political sphere Mormons came to embrace fully the American ideals of multi-party governance and electoral democracy. They also gradually embraced the Republican Party itself — a fact that would not seem so remarkable today were it not for the G. ’s history of condemning Mormonism. The Mormons’ passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and ’80s after which it became almost the sole representative… ’s history of condemning Mormonism. The Mormons’ passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and ’80s after which it became almost the sole representative. In the case of Southern whites a particular event shifted party allegiance namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as promoted and passed by President.
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FXNews – Jan 6, 2008
“He’s been able to capitalize on their yearning to believe in somebody. At age 46 bama is closer to their age _ too young to be part of the Vietnam era and the old-time Washington establishment that has left so many young people disillusioned. When endorsing bama and Republican John McCain college newspapers in Iowa praised both for sidestepping partisan politics. “bama grasps the bigger picture” said the endorsement in the Iowa State Daily. “He doesn’t seem to be entrenched in a system that only offers pessimism. He’s also been praised for addressing issues important to students _ ending the war in Iraq global warming accessibility to medical care and making college more affordable _ although all the major Democratic candidates have offered proposals on these issues. “Young voters feel like these are issues that will land in their laps… “Young voters feel like these are issues that will land in their laps. They are our problems to solve not our parents” says Sujatha Jahagirdar program director for Student PIRGs New Voters Project which has been mobilizing young people in Iowa New Hampshire and beyond. She noted that Republican Mike Huckabee also has shown a willingness to respond directly to students’ questions on such issues as global warming. At the University of New Hampshire sophomore Ashley McFarland has noted particularly strong campus support for both bama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. It remains to be seen whether that support will equate to votes in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary for either candidate. McFarland is leaning toward voting for Clinton or bama but has yet to decide. Among other things she says she’s appreciated being able to talk one on one with the two candidates’ student campaigners _ and much prefers that to the barrage of political ads on TV.
The Gillette News-Record: News
Gillette News Record – Jan 6, 2008
Numbers aren’t often that high. The atmosphere was different too. Darren Lynde a former Campbell County Republican Party chairman attended his first county convention in 1980. At most of those conventions few people showed up few people put themselves forward to be delegates to the national conventions and few people questioned them about the issues when they did. This year supporters spoke in favor of three of the presidential candidates before the nomination process kicked off. Two party members then put themselves forward as delegates to the national convention. Those at the county convention then spent several minutes grilling the two men about their qualifications.
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