"Bring it on," they kept chanting in the grandly named Mountain Preserve Reception and Conference Centre, "bring it on!" And while the John Kerry victory slogan is becoming like one of those incessant advertising jingles, it seems to be chiming in the west. This week, Mr Kerry swept to a comfortable victory in both Arizona and New Mexico. His aides talk confidently about more successes in other western primaries, including California. Has a Yankee senator really found an audience in the west? The answer matters not just to Mr Kerry but to his party, which, especially in the light of its lack of progress in the South, is re-examining a region where it has had limited success in presidential politics (at least outside California―and even that redoubt has now been Schwarzeneggered).
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