Future at stake, Republicans crowd into White House race

[WorldNews]

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With eight declared Republican presidential hopefuls and eight more expected to run, consensus has been brushed aside for 2016, as GOP rivals battle to shape the future of the party, and America, in the post-Obama era. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton may have the aura of inevitability about her, but it is another world for the GOP, where social conservatives and fiscal hawks are galloping alongside moderates as they race to see which philosophy prevails. Republican tradition has largely had it that party leaders engage in the so-called "imaginary primary," in which the establishment anoints a consensus candidate before the primary contests kick off at the start of an election year.

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