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"Our next commander-in-chief won&amp;amp;#8217;t win in 2008 based on issues, but rather who plays the best game of political Risk. Some of the candidates keep their campaign pieces in Florida. Others are fortifying South Carolina or Michigan. While the Iowa caucuses were happening, Rudy Giuliani was doing TV interviews from Florida looking like a snowbird on vacation from the prairie winter. McCain largely sat out the Hawkeye State and Fred Thompson didn&amp;amp;#8217;t even stay in New Hampshire long enough watch the results come in last night. Fred&amp;amp;#8217;s writing off the January 15 Michigan primary, too. He&amp;amp;#8217;s spending all his time in South Carolina getting ready for their January 19 primary, which he thinks he has a better chance of winning then the first three primary states. John McCain and Mitt Romney are the only ones who seem to be taking Michigan seriously. And, there&amp;amp;#8217;s no telling what&amp;amp;#8217;s going on with Huckabee. He left Iowa on their caucus-eve to do the Jay Leno show and he&amp;amp;#8217;s not campaigning in Michigan tonight. He&amp;amp;#8217;ll be on Colbert. Each of the candidates is &amp;amp;#8220;playing the map&amp;amp;#8221; a little differently. Of course, with our stringent campaign finance laws and &amp;amp;#8220;Tsunami Tuesday&amp;amp;#8221; on the way candidates have to be ever-vigilant about conserving precious dollars in order to compete nationally on February 5. Because of this, Huckabee&amp;amp;#8217;s idea to skip out on the hand-shaking to get some free, national publicity by hee-hawing on TV might pay off later. But this kind of politicking just doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t seem right. Playing games is no way to run for president. &amp;amp;#8212;Amanda"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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