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Article: Analysis: Huckabee and McCain face off after fending off Romney in US presidential race
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- January 10, 2008
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John McCain, meet Mike Huckabee. You are now rivals.
Until now the two Republican presidential candidates have been convenient allies _ the two Davids who knocked down Mitt Romney, the financial Goliath. But there is nothing convenient about Michigan and South Carolina, states whose nomination races could make or break either candidate's hopes for being the next Republican presidential nominee.
So these two men who separately confronted Romney, one in Iowa and one in New Hampshire, are now in the same ring.
"I don't see us going out there and taking the gloves off," Huckabee said of the prospects of a tough encounter with McCain.
To be sure, McCain and ...