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Exactly five months to the day after results from the Iowa caucuses turned the political world upside down, the winner on the Democratic side, pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama, nailed down enough delegates from the June 3 Montana and South Dakota primaries to claim his party's presidential nomination.
Following Iowa, Obama (D-Il.) suffered an unexpected loss to pro-abortion rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. But his superior organization and limitless financial resources beat back Clinton's many furious attempts at a counteroffensive. A media darling, Obama was anointed early as a "transformative" candidate, giving him an invaluable edge over Clinton (D-NY).
If ever anyone ever earned the title of the comeback kid, it is pro-life Sen. John McCain. Finishing a distant third in Iowa, McCain (R-Az.) was written off by the media establishment.
However, on January 8 he roared back to win convincingly in the Granite State and backed that up 11 days later by carrying the pivotal state ...