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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum will appear on Illinois’ primary ballot, but some political analysts say the former Pennsylvania senator won’t have the momentum to make it past Super Tuesday March 6 and to the state’s election come March 20. Santorum’s fifth-place finish in New Hampshire Tuesday and his second-place success in Iowa last...
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It’s been a wild ride for Republican presidential challengers in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich is the latest candidate with motion sickness. Gingrich, the former U.S. House Speaker, finished a distant fourth in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest. Predicting the winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses had been nearly impossible, with candidates taking turns sliding up...
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DES MOINES – Even before the final numbers were in Tuesday night, there were plenty of people ready to declare defeat for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the Iowa Republican caucuses. “Odds are, she will do quite poorly tonight,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said in...
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DES MOINES – After months of bus tours rolling across Iowa and millions of dollars spent in a massive advertising operation, most GOP candidates have failed to reach out to Hispanic voters in the state, say Iowa business owners and experts. The only candidate to visit a row of Mexican restaurants and grocery stores...
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DES MOINES–Republican presidential candidates campaigning against gay marriage may win over conservative Iowa caucus-goers Tuesday night, but that strategy won’t work for the majority of Iowan voters or in the general election, say a number of gay-rights advocates. Iowans, along with voters in other states, are more concerned with improving the economy rather than...
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