Days after Iowa and New Hampshire scrambled the field, dozens of Mobile and Baldwin county political figures offered wildly different forecasts for a presidential contest neither party could yet control.
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Giuliani Returns to Mobile for a Free Meet-and-Greet and a $1,000-a-Head Reception
Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani’s second Mobile visit of the year paired a free public gathering on the Causeway with a high-dollar reception and dinner hosted by the city’s GOP donor class.
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Mobile’s Political Class Sizes Up an Unsettled 2008 Presidential Field
Asked to name a favorite in the 2008 presidential race, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and civic figures answered with hedges, wish lists and a fair amount of open dissatisfaction with both parties’ fields.
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A Restless Electorate: Mobile Voters Wanted a Candidate Who Didn’t Exist
By late summer 2007, a striking number of Mobile’s civic and business figures had looked over both fields and found nobody who fit. One of them said the ideal candidate was Bob Riley.
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Long Before the Primaries, Mobile’s Political Class Was Already Choosing Sides
With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain’s Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called it for Hillary Clinton.
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Giuliani Had a Following Among Mobile Republicans, and a Skeptic or Two
City council members, a district attorney and a state senator weighed in on the 2008 field. Rudy Giuliani drew the most support in Mobile, but not everyone in his own party was convinced.
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Mobile’s Political Class Surveys the 2008 Field, and Mostly Declines to Commit
Asked in mid-2007 whom they favored for president, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and businessmen produced a portrait of a Republican electorate torn between Giuliani, McCain and Romney, and a probate judge who refused to answer at all.
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Why a Former Alabama GOP Chairman Settled on Romney
Marty Connors explained the research that led him to Mitt Romney, while other Alabama conservatives surveyed on the 2008 race fretted that no candidate in the Republican field could hold the party’s base.
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Hillary Clinton Raises $160,000 at an Eastern Shore Luncheon
The Democratic presidential candidate collected roughly $160,000 at a seated luncheon in the Baldwin County home of Pat and Bob Edington, drawing about 45 donors from five states to a deeply Republican county.
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Mobile Republicans Bet on Giuliani as GOP Women Fill the Statehouse Galleries
Local GOP leader Jerry Lathan made the electability case for Rudy Giuliani while busloads of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women descended on Montgomery for Red Wave Day.