It’s anyone’s race as Republican contest heats up

IT’S a different winner every day in the Republican presidential race.

Mike Huckabee took Iowa, John McCain won New Hampshire and Mitt Romney — who was second in both — claimed victory in scarcely contested Wyoming.

Unpredictable from the outset, the most wide-open GOP nomination fight in 50 years is becoming even more scrambled, a consequence of no natural successor to President Bush and a party searching for someone who appeals to economic, social and national security conservatives alike.