Rick Perry challenges opponents’ abortion stances at Iowa Faith & Freedom dinner
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 23rd, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Rick Perry challenges opponents’ abortion stances at Iowa Faith & Freedom dinner
DES MOINES — Six of the eight Republican presidential candidates vying for the hearts of social conservatives filed on and off stage in a cavernous hall here Saturday evening to each proclaim allegiance to conservative evangelical principles.
In speeches woven with spiritual references, the candidates spoke of reversing abortion rights and defending traditional marriage, and they cast the 2012 election as one that would determine whether the nation’s very freedom endures.
Nevada GOP agrees to shift presidential caucuses to Feb. 4, avoid election calendar fight
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Nevada Republicans have shifted their presidential caucuses to early February, a move that ends an increasingly bitter standoff among rival states and for the first time clarifies the path to the Republican presidential nomination.
There will be no voting before Christmas. That’s despite warnings from New Hampshire’s top election official that Nevada’s initial insistence to host its contest in mid-January could force the Granite State to schedule the nation’s first Republican primary election in roughly six weeks.
In Colorado, voter anger clouds 2012 choices
DENVER
By almost every electoral scenario, the road to the White House in 2012 will run directly through Colorado and a handful of other Rocky Mountain states. Right now, neither President Obama, who will visit here early this week, nor the Republicans who debated in Las Vegas last week should feel confident about their prospects in this pivotal region.
