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Senator John McCain of Arizona won the most states and appeared poised to win the most delegates on Tuesday with impressive primary victories in the delegate-rich states of California, New York and Illinois. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, revived his candidacy with victories across the South. Their strong showings posed a serious challenge to the candidacy of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who vowed to press on with his campaign after winning in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Utah and Alaska... If Mr. McCain failed to sweep the contests that followed his big win last week in Florida...

24 hours till votes are counted in the Missouri Republican Primary, John McCain and Mike Huckabee are effectively even, according to SurveyUSA's final pre-primary tracking poll ... At the wire, it's McCain 33%, Huckabee 31%, Mitt Romney 28%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 72 hours ago, McCain is flat, Huckabee may have slight momentum... Among pro-life voters, Huckabee leads Romney by 12... Regional turnout is key to determining the winner of Missouri's 58 winner-take-all delegates.

A broad coalition of black conservatives from across the country are holding a press conference to urge former Governor Mike Huckabee to stay in the presidential race for the Republican nomination until the convention. "Governor Huckabee should not be intimidated to stop his bid for the Republican nomination," states Don Scoggins, veteran GOP activist and ... president of Republicans for Black Empowerment, a DC-based national grassroots organization. The concern of the group is the pressure that is mounting by Republican talking heads to push Governor Huckabee out of the race. The consensus is that Huckabee's campaign was deliberately sabotaged by...

We believe that Romney's recent pro-life statements and public stands are driven by political ambition and cold calculations about Republican primary voters, not the result of any genuine "conversion." Governor Romney's failure to fight for the rights of private religious hospitals, his inattention to the types of judges he appointed, his involvement with a health care plan that vastly increases state funded abortions, his inconsistency on the embryonic stem cell issue, his ignorance of the evil of euthanasia and his failure to enunciate the moral objections to abortion have convinced us that he does not fundamentally understand life issues, nor...

For the second time in a week, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made a campaign stop in Alabama, this time visiting Huntsville, Montgomery and Tuscaloosa, where he spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 people at Open Door Baptist Church on Saturday. “We certainly want to be in Alabama as much as possible before Super Tuesday,” Huckabee said during a press conference after his speech. “We feel that the people of Alabama would feel more comfortable with a president who’s more like them,” he said. Huckabee, who spoke to more than 2,000 people at Samford University the Saturday before, was...