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The date of the Iowa caucuses has been fixed. Both parties will meet on January 3rd, ABC's Jake Tapper (subscription required) reported, but the competitions will not be equally intense. For Republicans, he declared "Iowa is not do or die" since the strategy of both Rudolph Giuliani and Fred Thompson is to look beyond Iowa and New Hampshire "focusing on South Carolina and Florida." Not so for the Democrats. "If Barack Obama and John Edwards have any hope of upsetting the Clinton Juggernaut they have to do it in Iowa." NBC's David Gregory saw Obama "stepping up his attack" on the frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton. At a forum run by MTV and mySpace.com Obama insisted that his self-styled Politics of Hope "is not just based on us all holding hands and singing Kumbaya." Certainly Donnie McClurkin, one of Obama's spokesman on a gospel music tour in South Carolina, was not singing in chorus with the candidate's gay supporters, Gregory noted: "McClurkin claims homosexuality is a choice and that he was cured of it through prayer. Under pressure from gay activists, Obama condemned McClurkin's views--but refused to cancel his appearance."
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