El Wall Street Journal reflexiona sobre la complicada decisión que deben tomar los votantes republicanos de Iowa, al tener que elegir entre dos candidatos tan diferentes entre sí. En origen, preparación, trayectoria, imagen... no existe una sóla similitud entre ambos personajes. La única coincidencia parece ser que los dos son ex Gobernadores, aunque de dos de los estados más antagónicos de la Unión. Same Party, Different Style(...) In Iowa, the Republican presidential race has come down to two former governors who offer caucus goers a stark choice. It's the pulpit vs. the boardroom, poverty vs. privilege, passion vs. preparedness.
Mike Huckabee loves homespun tales and self-deprecating jokes. Mitt Romney basks in PowerPoint slides and statistics. Mr. Huckabee, a firefighter's son, is a Southerner born and bred. Mr. Romney, son of a CEO-turned-governor, roamed from Michigan to Massachusetts to Utah.
They embody two wings of the Republican Party -- social conservatives and economic conservatives -- that sometimes sit uneasily. (...)
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