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Fla. Holds the Key for GOP

Posted Jan 21, 08 10:43 CST in Politics 

(Newser) – The Republican field has made a mad dash for wide-open Florida, where Mike Huckabee prays for the Panhandle pious, John McCain hustles veterans, and Rudy Giuliani reminds ex-New Yorkers how much he did for them. The Jan. 29 primary is the first closed contest, meaning McCain can’t rely on independents to carry the state—though he edges Giuliani in recent polls.

Even counting Mitt Romney’s open checkbook, no candidate has enough cash to deluge Florida with TV ads, the Washington Post reports. The stakes are high not just because of the 57 delegates—or 114, if the party reverses the penalty for moving the primary up—but because it will make or break Giuliani and may be Huckabee's last stand.
Source: Washington Post

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Republican Presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani walks in the Three Kings Parade in the Little Havana section of Miami, Fla, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, as he continues to campaign...   (Associated Press)
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., answers questions at the Florida Association of Broadcasters, Wednesday, June 20, 2007, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)   (Associated Press)
Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a campaign stop at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)   (Associated Press)
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