Looks like the Republicans may be down to two (McCain and Romney) after Super Tuesday. Might be down to two after Florida.
Shame how some have attempted to use Huckabee's religious faith against him.
Republicans eye Florida for Super Tuesday momentum (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopefuls fanned out Sunday across Florida, clamoring for voters in the state's GOP primary on Tuesday.
Republican hopefuls, here at Thursday's debate in Boca Raton, Florida, are fighting for primary votes in Florida.
"We're going to win in Florida," former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani vowed on CBS' "Face the Nation."
He added, "I'm confident that we're going to win."
But Giuliani -- who has staked his campaign on a Florida victory after largely ignoring the early contests -- trails his two leading rivals in recent polls.
Polls suggest U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are in a close battle for Tuesday's contest, the final primary before Super Tuesday or "Super Duper Tuesday" as some are calling it, February 5 -- when more than 20 states hold their nominating contests.
McCain received a boost Saturday when Florida Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed him.
"I think it's going to be a close race here on Tuesday, but I, I think we got some good momentum," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
While his victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina have given new life to his campaign, McCain declined to speculate on what it may be like to face the eventual Democratic nominee in a general election.
"I've got a pretty massive ego, but not quite so much as I'm planning on that yet," he joked.
Romney, however, did not hold back during an interview on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
"I think they'd find a race against me to be the most challenging," he said of the Democrats. Contrasting himself against Sen. Barack Obama, he said, "My record of accomplishment, compared with his rhetoric, is going to be a pretty stark contrast."
Romney ripped into McCain.
"I'm all about the future, all about progress for America. Sen. McCain is somebody who's been there for 25 years. He can talk about the past better than anybody I know, but I don't believe that America wants to turn back."
The two men have been locked in a bitter battle over their positions on the Iraq war.
McCain, meanwhile, furthered an ongoing dispute with Romney over the Iraq war. He told NBC that Romney supported "secret" timetables for pulling troops from Iraq.
"And if we'd have done that, as the Democrats and some Republicans wanted to do, we would've lost that surge and al Qaeda would be celebrating a victory over the United States of America."
Romney has called the attacks false and "dishonest" and insisted McCain apologize.
"He knows that, like him, I'm in favor of the troop surge. I've never suggested that we set a date certain to withdraw from Iraq," Romney said.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses, is trailing Giuliani in Florida, according to polls.
Speaking Sunday to CNN's "Late Edition," Huckabee rejected the words of a New York Times editorial endorsing McCain for the Republican nomination.
The editorial called Huckabee "affable" and "reassuring," but said his "policies tell the real story. To attract Republican primary voters, he has become an anti-immigrant absolutist. His insertion of religion into the race, herding Mr. Romney into a defense of his beliefs, disqualifies him from the Oval Office."
"I was a governor longer than I was a pastor," Huckabee said, complaining of "soft bigotry" toward Christian evangelicals.
"Is our culture so shifted ... that the fact that I was a governor and led in education reform, in health-care reform, rebuilt our road system -- we forget all of that, that I cut taxes, streamline government, we forget all of that?"
Huckabee said his campaign will be "on our feet, not just after Super Duper Tuesday, but on the platform to take the nomination" at the Republican convention in September.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/27/election.gop.ap/index.html