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The most beautiful story of the mangy little choice in 1997 resulting from (a) Staten Island ballot initiative to recall Susan Molinari of CBS News, (b) Ruth measure Inger’s Last Minute demand for this campaign McCAUGHEY councils Betsy Ross, or (c) the sub-powerful effect of Bob Dole’s much photographed again tense on the face of the capsizing of the GOP youth vote.

The correct answer is (d), the triumph of the Pro-Choice candidates in the Republican Party, which was a year ago on a platform application for a constitutional ban on all abortions. Both Rudolph Giuliani, New York, the newly elected mayor, and Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey’s newly elected governor, are clearly in favour of abortion. The third major G.O.P. Winner Tuesday - James Gilmore, governor-elect to meet the most conservative of Virginia - is not it, but it has more commercials to the left of his party officially. ”The Supreme Court has spoken,’’said Gilmore ads. ”Nobody will prohibit abortion.”

They think the Republican establishment would be celebrating the victories of interesting candidates, including the pairing of small government conservatism and social libertarian principles can also define the countries of the political majority at the moment. But this is not the case. They are effrayés’’sur the success of Whitman and Giuliani,’’said one GOP moderate leaders this week, because success is partly contrary to the wisdom that the road to national victory requires strict fealty to the Religious Right.

In the post-war Spin Board Election Schoßhündchens Conservative commentators, the cross-dressing M. Giuliani can not be dismissed as an abnormal phenomenon NYC and Mrs. Whitman, once again turned his Democratic challenger, Jim McGreevey, to name only a few 27000 votes, or 1 percent, is one of mutilated survivors near the experience von””Tod to the polls. Whitman’s”faiblesse should be buried their brand of politics GOP Battle Plan,’’says the Wall Street Journal “columnist yesterday in a typical dissemination of the party line. A Washington Post-News story refers to evidence””,” Mrs. Whitman almost verloren”von antagonizing the right to abortion.

Indeed, Ms. Rückert won with only 1% (26000 votes) in 1993 as well as they unseated Jim Florio. This time eked their voters, despite a victory over the anger of automobile insurance rates - and despite a well-funded effort by his own party to destroy the right wing. Mrs. Whitman had refused to sign a bill state Verbot”teilweisen birth”abortion, with exceptions for the life and physical health of the mother. For this act of principle, the governor was on verwildert one million voters, the Christian Coalition leader last weekend. The Christian Coalition also has a tacit support of a Pro-Life Third candidate, Murray Sabrin, has attracted nearly 114000 votes - almost all of them to Mrs. Whitman costs.

When I talked to him 36 hours after their von””Tod near the experience, Mrs. Whitman does not sound like a policy is not valid. ”The Christian Coalition met releases say, I’m lost,’’she said, the right of fun for the period after the elections of spin. ”You can call me many things, but they call me governor for the next four years.”

Mrs. Whitman has estimated that G.O.P. Poche”with them, but not a national election”as long as it is a pro-life position on abortion a test standard for his vehicle. This, she says, was ein’’sehr strong Botschaft”der Dole defeat in the last year, as the Republicans lost between Catholic women despite the Clinton veto of Congress Geburt””Verbot part.

Exit polls show that only 3 percent of the voters of New Jersey’s considers abortion as a crucial problem in the Rückert-McGreevey race. And no wonder: Mr. McGreevey also against the party Geburt””Verbot. Despite the Christian Coalition high jinks, full 93 percent of New Jersey’s voters stuck resolutely pro-choice candidates instead launch a protest Pro-Life voting for Mr. Sabrin.

New Jersey is not America, of course, but it is certainly closer to the Main Stream New Hampshire and Iowa, the first line gantlets season with which the extreme right on Mobber Republicans’ presidential nomination. With a self-Inger Destruktivität that could envy Democrats, the GOP reduces the choice of triumphs moderate, as are Christie Whitman and Rudy Giuliani, it may sexy ideological purists such as Steve Forbes and Dan Quayle.