Cumberlink:
John McCain, campaigning in a funeral home, hoped for a large turnout by the living Tuesday as Michigan voters judged the Republican presidential pack in a snowy primary.....
How many votes do you think he picked up in the funeral home?
>> Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution.
MSNBC:
...These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended.
"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary....
Huckabee gives me the heebie-jeebies. I guess he'll be advocating a state religion soon.
>> Giuliani is not doing well in Florida. Even though Giuliani has campaigned almost exclusively in Florida, his poll numbers do not look good.
....A new Quinnipiac University poll Monday found Giuliani has lost his once-dominant lead in Florida, a must-win for the ex-mayor. He is locked in a virtual four-way tie for first place in the state's GOP primary with Sen. John McCain and ex-Govs. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
At the same time, two new polls showed Giuliani - the Republican front-runner for virtually all of 2007 - sliding into third or fourth place nationally....
If Giuliani continues to spend his little remaining campaign cash in Florida, he'll have an empty campaign war chest for other states.