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Washington Post
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Feb 12, 08 10:55 PM CST
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John McCain won the GOP primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, tonight. The Arizona senator enjoyed comfortable wins in Maryland and DC, but he got a run for his money in Virginia from Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor made it a tight race with enthusiastic backing from conservatives and evangelicals, who make up 68% and 40%, respectively, of GOP voters in Virginia, CNN reports.
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Seattle Times
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Feb 11, 08 3:45 AM CST
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Mike Huckabee's campaign is crying foul after Washington Republicans called the state's GOP caucus for rival John McCain with 87% of the vote counted—and stopped counting the rest. The impact of calling an election before all votes are counted is "seismic," said a statement from the Huckabee campaign, which is now sending its lawyers to Washington to battle over the results, reports the Seattle Times .
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Chicago Tribune
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Feb 10, 08 2:30 PM CST
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Mere numbers, it seems, won’t stop Mike Huckabee from fighting till the end. Despite apparently insurmountable odds, the Republican candidate says he won’t “walk off the field,” the Chicago Tribune reports. John McCain has enough delegates that landslides in every remaining state contest will not bring a Huckabee nomination, but “miracles are still happening,” says the Arkansas governor. “I still believe in them.”
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Associated Press
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Feb 10, 08 4:30 AM CST
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GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee topped off his win at the Kansas Caucuses yesterday with another surprise upset in the Louisiana primary, edging out frontrunner John McCain 43% to 42%. With 87% of precincts in the Washington caucus reporting, McCain leads 26% to Huckabee's 24%, and AP has called the state for McCain.
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MSNBC
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Feb 9, 08 2:59 PM CST
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Mike Huckabee easily won the Kansas caucuses today over John McCain, NBC reports. Huckabee took 60% of the vote, McCain 24%, and Ron Paul 11%. He won at least 33 of the 36 delegates up for grabs. The win, which comes in a state with a strong base of conservative voters, comes hours after Huckabee declared that he's not dropping out of the race.
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Reuters
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Feb 9, 08 12:30 PM CST
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He’s already outlasted America’s mayor, a Law and Order star, and a millionaire former governor. Now, despite eating John McCain's dust in the GOP delegate race, Mike Huckabee vowed today to continue to fight for the White House, Reuters reports. “Am I quitting? No, I’m not,” the former Arkansas governor told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington—the same forum Mitt Romney chose to drop out of the race.
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Associated Press
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Feb 8, 08 4:41 AM CST
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One of the most influential Evangelical Christian leaders in the nation is expected today to endorse Mike Huckabee, providing a major boost to his campaign among conservatives, AP reports. James Dobson, founder of Colorado's Focus on the Family organization, has never before endorsed a Republican presidential candidate during a primary campaign. Dobson has grabbed national headlines with a number of controversial comments, including linking stem cell research to Nazi medical experiments and implying that the cartoon character Sponge Bob Square Pants is gay.
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Wall Street Journal
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Feb 7, 08 7:26 AM CST
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John McCain's strong Super Tuesday showing has left him looking like a sure thing to win the Republican nomination, but Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are staying in the race and hoping for a change, the Wall Street Journal reports. "Once you're out of the race, you're out. But if you stay in, you have a chance to put something together," a Republican noted.
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CNN
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Feb 6, 08 3:04 AM CST
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Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were the choices today among Republicans that consider themselves conservatives, while they split Evangelicals three ways with John McCain, reveal exit polls from 15 states. Conservatives made up 80% of Romney's voters, compared with 75% of Huckabee supporters and 49% of those who pulled the lever for McCain, CNN reports.
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Washington Post
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Feb 6, 08 2:28 AM CST
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Mike Huckabee was expected to win his home state of Arkansas on Super Tuesday, but his wins in West Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia on top of that have put the supposed "third wheel" back in the race for the GOP nomination, the Washington Post reports. "Sometimes one small, smooth stone is more effective than a suit of armor," Huckabee told cheering supporters in Arkansas.
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MSNBC
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Feb 5, 08 7:07 PM CST
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Hillary Clinton topped Barack Obama in the Massachusetts primary today, overcoming his fervent endorsements by Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, MSNBC reports. Clinton did benefit from backing by state lawmakers like the senate president, Therese Murray, who implied Clinton lost the big endorsements because she is a woman, the AP reports. Clinton also ran more than twice as many ads in the state as Obama, the Times reports.
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Charleston Gazette
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Feb 5, 08 2:43 PM CST
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Mike Huckabee won the first 18 delegates awarded on Super Tuesday, capturing the West Virginia convention over Mitt Romney, 557-522. The ex-Arkansas governor won the contest in the second round after John McCain voters shifted to him, irking Romney supporters. Said one Romney booster, “These are the juvenile actions of a morally bankrupt campaign.”
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Reuters
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Feb 4, 08 6:58 AM CST
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Barack Obama is pulling out in front of Hillary Clinton in Missouri and California the day before all-important Super Tuesday, according to the latest Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll. GOP contender John McCain is well ahead of Mitt Romney in New York and New Jersey, but Romney has boosted his lead in California, the delegate jackpot of tomorrow's 24 contests, which could puncture McCain's frontrunner status.
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Washington Post
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Feb 3, 08 6:34 AM CST
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As the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continues to tighten, GOP candidate John McCain is enjoying more overwhelming support than ever, according to the latest Washington Post -ABC News national poll. Clinton's 47%-43% lead over Obama falls within the poll's margin of error, with no clear sign of who will be picked by supporters of former candidate John Edwards.
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MTV
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Feb 2, 08 9:59 PM CST
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Four White House hopefuls were beamed in to MTV's "Closing Arguments" debate in New York tonight and one took first place in "instant" polling: Ron Paul. His stand for friendly foreign relations won over 73% of those polled, and roughly half promised him their vote. Barack Obama fared second-best with roughly 50/50 splits on issues from gay marriage to the draft, while Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee inspired fewest clicks among presumably young online voters.
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